Tom Foot

United Kingdom

Deputy Editor at Camden New Journal

Deputy Editor at Islington Tribune

Deputy Editor at Westminster Extra

Deputy editor. Camden New Journal, Islington Tribune, Westminster Extra. Nepo baby. If it mews it's news.

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Articles

‘Anger can make me fight for change, for things to improve, and attitudes to shift’

1 week ago | islingtontribune.co.uk | Tom Foot

Grace Spence Green made national news when a man fell on her from three storeys up as she stood on an escalator, breaking her back and spinal cordSWIMMING in the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond is one of the few times Grace Spence Green can “really breathe out”. The Hampstead Heath sanctuary is where she goes to get away from the endless crass questioning and peculiar behaviours that have plagued her since her injury at the Westfield shopping centre, Stratford, in 2018.
From the Lisbon streets to N5, that’s how to celebrate!

1 week ago | islingtontribune.co.uk | Tom Foot

Thousands gather outside the stadiumARSENAL’s captain fantastic Leah Williamson said “magic delivered” after lifting the Champions League trophy in front of thousands of jubilant Gooners. The history-making skipper said she had been overwhelmed by the huge turnout outside the Emirates on Monday morning – with some devoted fans arriving as early as 5.30am ahead of the midday event.
Anger over alcohol bid by boat firm

1 week ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

NO booze boats! That’s the call from dozens of people living on the Regent’s Canal who are fearful of drunken “boorish behaviour”, crashes, shouting, urination, and “flashing”, if an application to license alcohol sales for a new fleet of skippered-boats is approved. GoBoat has applied to sell alcohol to customers from its base in Merchant Square, Paddington.
Thieves ‘clear out victims’ accounts using phone apps’

1 week ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

A PHONE theft victim who had thousands of pounds stolen is backing a campaign to encourage people to take simple steps to protect their devices and finances. Kush Chaudary’s phone was stolen by a group of men outside a bar in Soho after he got talking to them in the early hours. The group waited until his phone was unlocked before snatching it and – within minutes – thousands had been plundered from his accounts including a £5,000 transfer to a crypto wallet.
Secular society slams schools merger plan

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

CAMPAIGNERS have warned that a merger of primary schools will bring about a “significant reduction” in secular places. The National Secular Society says 200 non-religious places will be lost through the “amalgamation” of Barrow Hill Junior School, George Eliot Primary, and Robinsfield Infant School, all in St John’s Wood. The three community schools, with no religious character, are set to be brought together due to falling admissions, part of a trend affecting most areas of the capital.
Arts charity faces probe of business

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

AN investigation has been launched into a popular haven for actors once celebrated among a host of legends of stage and screen. A government regulator said yesterday, Thursday, it was looking into the Seven Dials Playhouse – SDP – because of “financial concerns”. The charity, formerly The Actors Centre, rebranded after almost hitting the buffers during the Covid-19 pandemic and scrapped its actor training scheme.
Now the Whittington faces ‘ruthless cuts’

2 weeks ago | islingtontribune.co.uk | Tom Foot

The Tribune’s battle bus hit the road to back the campaign to save under-threat departments at the Whittington in 2010ONE of north London’s most successful campaign groups is getting the band together after worrying details of “ruthless cuts” began to leak out from behind closed doors. The Defend Whittington Hospital Coalition is reforming after a four-year hiatus due to the latest NHS emergency.
155 hours of kindness to match school’s years

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

St Augustine’s primary students shape up for the school’s special birthday celebrationsA SCHOOL has been taking a walk back along memory lane while marking a historic milestone with an undertaking to complete “155 hours of kindness and giving back”. Parents, pupils, and staff at St Augustine’s in south Kilburn took part in a range of goodwill activities including donating 155 items to food banks and homeless shelters.
City leader’s plea on empty homes

2 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

MORE than half the homes in the West End are not used “as a primary residence”, the leader of the city council told a conference in Birmingham as he reiterated demands for councils to be given powers to threaten seizure of homes left empty for long periods. Cllr Adam Hug told the Empty Homes Network event in Birmingham yesterday, Thursday, he had already talked about the problem in Westminster for “too long” and listed four demands for the Labour government.
‘Work must be undone at historic townhouse’

3 weeks ago | westminsterextra.co.uk | Tom Foot

Geoff Barraclough: ‘I hope this outcome sends a clear message: those who ignore planning rules will be held accountable’A HOMEOWNER has been given a year to fill up a “sub-basement” excavation and restore a series of other unauthorised alterations at a Grade II-listed house in Mayfair. A planning inspector this week dismissed an appeal from Stefano Menconi against an enforcement notice from Westminster City Council at his property in Park Street.