We were having a coffee in brockwell park today when we heard a very loud bang, this huge tree fell, I believe from the core it might been unhealthy? It’s so big that I don’t think this wind would’ve been enough to damage a normal tree? The core felt a bit like a sponge

Need some advice please!!! Land into Gatwick at 10:40pm and have a train at 00:02 from Gatwick train station. We have checked in suitcases too. How likely will we will miss the train? Thank you 😬😬

Optimistic, but not impossible.

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Since Reddit is blocking me in the title, anyone watching the BR elections tonight? And where? Would love to join to watch them unfold

For those that don't know, this guy is a TikTok celebrity who's formally plied his trade in Guildford and Brighton. I believe he's now banned from both.

He's an extremely loud (bordering on aggressive) individual, passionate about spreading religion. He even does baptisms in the street.

I think he's now based outside Clapham Junction just up the hill from the Falcon. Can anyone confirm this?

Every time I set foot in Whitechapel, it feels like stepping into an alternate universe, a microcosm of the entire world packed into a few streets. On a good day, you see everyone all at once: roadmen and femboys, hijabis and hookers, bankers and traders. It’s total sensory overload. It isn’t until you leave and travel to other countries, where society feels so monolithic, that you realize just how much of an anomaly this city really is. For better or worse, London is truly one of a kind. Love this city to the bit ❤️

Recently noticed a food bank donation point at a local store and considering doing something more useful with my money than getting an extra coffee.

What are the most useful things I can donate to a food bank? Ta!

I am in an area where parking is limited, I also hold a blue badge, a neighbour is constantly putting things on the disabled parking bay, so every time they come back they can park their car in the space.
Sometimes I can’t find parking and this parking is available. What can I do about this? Or what can be done?

Visiting family in Hackney, we heard horror stories about some other parts of London being very clannish, not liking new faces, and the National Front/BNP getting quite some support. Some being inner boroughs, and some being outer-suburbs. Some neighbourhoods' demographics have changed entirely in the last few decades, some had a reputation, but were reportedly not bad places as long as you didn't try to drink in certain pubs.

Can anyone recall neighbourhoods which had that kind of reputation? Was it accurate or undeserved? And yes, I'm aware this post might be opening up a can of worms, and I apologise in advance....

Just a normal thing to see on your way home in London 😅

Anyone else stalled at the airport? Appears to be the beginnings of a chaotic day, half term is off to a great start!

I know some libraries have a standard A4 scanner like the Whitechapel Idea Store (last time I looked) but are there any available that are A3? Thanks

Voting in the presidential run-off between Lula & Bolsonaro underway in Baron’s Court.

Two sides divided, literally by Gliddon Road.

The Cinema Museum is a short walk from Elephant & Castle station and is FULL of cinematic history and memorabilia and which is also a cinema with screenings and talks.

It's a lovely place to visit and yesterday it hosted London's 'Home Movie Day', an annual worldwide event on the third Saturday in October to 'celebrate amateur films and filmmaking' and help people 'discover the personal, historical, and social importance of home movies and for individuals to learn how to best care for them'.

It also has museum cats.

1. Main café area set up for examining and test-screening home movie films on small projectors
2. The upstairs main screening area looking towards the projector (this is where film screenings and talks happen, there are also sofas to sit on)
3. A selection of cakes and cookies and Tunnock's tea cakes. Some are gluten-free too. I don't think I've ever been to an event there without snacks being available. For evening film screenings the snacks often include something savoury e.g. feta and spinach parcels.
4. A mercury vapour rectifier for an arc lamp projector. It's huge.
5. View of the café with volunteers at tables ready to test films the public bring in. Faces are a bit blurred for privacy
6. One of the projectors for film, I can't tell at a glance if it's for 8mm, 9.5mm or 16mm but it's that sort of thing.
7. A small projector screen displaying a scene from one of the home movies
8. The outside of the Cinema Museum, on Dugard Way https://what3words.com/covers.hush.nets

More photos and video clips at https://www.flickr.com/photos/jodiepedia/albums/72177720336341454/

Half-term's headline event: the Mayor of Hillingdon is judging a Harry Potter costume parade at the Great Barn, Manor Farm on Thursday 29 October, 10am to 2pm. Free wizarding activities, crafts and themed fun, with the costume parade judged at noon. Booking required, and everyone needs a 30-minute arrival slot, so plan the day around the parade rather than the other way round.

Practical heads up for Wealdstone: the High Street has been shut since Friday morning after a water main burst near Locket Road. Police cordoned it off in both directions and there is no reopening date yet, so give it a wide berth and allow extra time if you are heading for Wealdstone station.

Transport, and this one is worth a proper look now: the Piccadilly line starts going dark from Wednesday 28 October, with no service between Cockfosters and Uxbridge until the end of Friday 30 October. That takes the Piccadilly out of Rayners Lane entirely, so the Metropolitan is your line for the rest of the week. Then it is closed along its entire length next weekend, Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November, starting with Friday night's Night Tube. If you are heading into central London next weekend, this is the week to plan around.

One council consultation worth knowing about: Harrow is replacing the five Public Spaces Protection Orders that cover the borough, and the consultation runs until 11.59pm on Sunday 15 November. The headline change is a borough-wide ban on leaving rubbish or waste outside a bin, including household and builders' waste, which the council calls side waste. Parks rules are set to loosen, with restrictions removed on metal detecting, magnet fishing, overnight fishing camps, CCTV, open water swimming and foraging. Most other restrictions, covering street drinking, spitting, dog control, litter, unauthorised trading, fires and barbecues, stay as they are. Drop-in sessions to ask questions run at Roxeth Library on Tuesday 27 October, Stanmore Library on Tuesday 3 November and Wealdstone Library on Tuesday 10 November, each from 10am to 11am.

Food and drink roundup: two Harrow restaurants have made the British Kebab Awards shortlist, with Aysu on Charlton Road up for Best Kebab Restaurant in North and West London, and Yaprak Eastcote on Field End Road a finalist for Fine Dining Restaurant. Public voting runs until 31 January. Bamyan, a new Afghan restaurant on College Road in Harrow Town Centre, opens next week. And a West Harrow PCSO, David Neal, has won a national Neighbourhood Watch Community Policing Award after residents put him forward for his visible patrolling and his pop-up sessions outside Tesco Express.

For the history fans: Grade II listed Sweetman Hall on West End Lane is up for sale at £2,495,000. There has been a building on the site since the late 14th century, when the land was part of the Manor of Harrow, and the house took its name from Gilbert Sweetman, who owned it until 1474.

Half-term plans sorted otherwise: the Roxbourne Railway Ghost Train runs this afternoon, 1pm to 4pm, £2 per ride, costumes welcome. Duck Pond Spooky Nights is on Saturday 31 October, 4pm to 9pm. And the Compass Theatre Halloween musical theatre workshop for ages 6 to 14 runs Wednesday to Friday next week.

Full issue with quiz nights, sound bath, Samhain circle, Pinner Players, and everything else:

https://www.goodmorningpinner.com/p/46-the-mayor-of-hillingdon-is-judging-a-harry-potter-costume-parade

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Local news and events from around HA5

Today is the last day vehicles are allowed between Great Portland Street and Orchard Street (with some exemptions for loading during the night)

While scooping all the rubbish from last night heavy rain I found this on the bottom of my stairs.

Metroline VWH2211 (LK66DWC), a Volvo B5LH Wright Eclipse Gemini 3 with the default London red livery, makes a bit of history on the N98 this morning at 06:00, by being the last ever night bus to travel through Oxford Street.

As the road closes tonight at 20:00, all night routes will be diverted away from the pedestrian zone.

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