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Dec 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Road safety campaigners in east London have lost a high court challenge against the mayor of Tower Hamlets over his decision to remove three low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in Bethnal Green. The campaign group Save Our Safer Streets (SOSS) raised nearly £80,000 through a crowdfunder to bring judicial review proceedings.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
msn.com | Harriet Grant
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
The mayor of Tower Hamlets is facing a judicial review this week over his decision to remove three low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) in the east London area of Bethnal Green. The campaign group Save Our Safer Streets (SOSS) says the LTNs are vital to protect children in deprived areas from pollution and the risks of heavy traffic. The group has raised nearly £80,000 through a crowdfunder to pay lawyers to bring the legal proceedings.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
All nine of Leicester’s remaining adventure playgrounds are to lose all their council funding and are beginning the process of shutting down. Three are already handing out redundancy notices and setting dates for closure in September with playworkers at another warning they are “just a few months behind”. The popular sites are filled with hundreds of children who come from some of the poorest corners of the city for free holiday play schemes.
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Jul 6, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Savannah Ayoade-Greaves |Robert Booth |Tom Lamont |Harriet Grant |Dermot Daly |James Kelly
Hollywood’s great survivor discusses his band, politics, family, embracing change and learning selflessness; as pornography use soars, we meet the men who feel their behaviour is moving from a compulsion to an addiction; and, last week, a job advert emerged for a private tutor to an architecture student with potential earnings of more than £2m. One man who has worked with wealthy families describes what it takes.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Every Friday morning Damien Jordan can be seen walking back on forth in the local park, staring at the grass. He’s checking for dog mess and drug paraphernalia; in the next 10 minutes 30 or so of the pupils of Fairlight primary in Brighton will hit the park for their weekly football practice. With a playground that measures just 800m2 and more than 400 children, there is no room for sports on the school grounds, so about a decade ago Jordan, headteacher at Fairlight, started practice at the park.
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Jun 17, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Oasis Academy South Bank in Waterloo sits in a densely built-up corner of south London – so densely that the only space found for the school was in a recommissioned office block. There is no playground, no sports pitch, nowhere to play football at break time. Steve Chalke is the founder of Oasis Charitable Trust, the organisation that runs the school, one of 54 in their charge across England. He admits it is a challenging environment. “We are in an old 1960s office block.
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Jun 12, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Campaigners are warning that a major development project that will be approved by Birmingham city council falls far short of the city’s own guidelines for open green space. The £1.9bn Smithfield scheme will bring 3,500 new homes as well as restaurants and offices to 17 hectares (42 acres) of fenced brownfield land in the centre of the city. But the new park – Smithfield Park – will only be 0.8 hectares, smaller than a football pitch.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Something has gone seriously wrong for children in the UK. On the radio, in the papers, among friends; everyone is talking about the epidemic of childhood unhappiness and anxiety. Smartphones, social media, and easy access to violent content and pornography are, of course, part of it. The rising tide of anger at under-regulated tech companies is justified.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
theguardian.com | Harriet Grant
Louise* thought she had been open and clear with her two children about the dangers of the internet. But last year there was a knock on her door at 6am. It was the police looking for her 17-year-old son. “There were five or six police coming up my stairs,” she says. “When they said they were looking for my son because of indecent images I thought I was going to pass out. “I was saying, ‘Oh my God he’s autistic – has he been groomed?’ They bagged up all his devices and took him away.
