Newsroom

A new team of Community Safety Wardens has dealt with more than 840 incidents of anti-social behaviour since taking to Kensington and Chelsea’s streets in July.

Leighton House, the former home and studio of Victorian artist Frederic, Lord  Leighton (1830 – 1896), will reopen for pre-booked visits at weekends from Saturday 12 September.

A mobile testing unit outside Kensington Town Hall carried out 400 tests in its first day, following a recent rise in local Coronavirus cases.

A Coronavirus mobile testing unit will be in place outside Kensington Town Hall on Sunday 6 and Monday 7 September from 10am to 5pm.

There has been a rise in the number of coronavirus cases in recent weeks in the borough. In the week Thursday 23 to Wednesday 29 August there were 42 confirmed Coronavirus cases.

Twenty-six selfless servants of the Kensington and Chelsea community have had their efforts recognised with a Mayor’s Award.

Seven schools in Kensington and Chelsea are encouraging walking, cycling and scooting to school with new road closures at drop off and pick up times.

As schools reopen for an autumn term like no other, we look at some of the most frequent conerns voiced by parents sending their children back into the classroom.