The Latest Breaking News from Hammersmith Bridge

City Comment: In a parallel universe where London gets to keep a bit more of its tax revenues, we could have new tube trains and a functional Hammersmith Bridge

In the course of three or so years and more than 700 editions, this newsletter has been known to drop the odd clanger. Typos, of course ('guilt-edged' still haunts me late at night) and even once contriving to use an image of Tower Bridge to illustrate a story about Hammersmith…

Embarrassing, humiliating, a microcosm of why we can’t get anything built in this country. Pick your howl of anguish then treble it: this is the story of Hammersmith Bridge. The crossing was shut in April 2019 by Hammersmith and Fulham council after safety sensors detected “dangerous micro-fractures” in the cast-iron…

Tories say it should be renamed 'Sadiq Khan Bridge' to highlight mayor's alleged inaction

HGVs crossing the west London bridge face fines as three-tonne weight restriction comes into force on Thursday

A vessel carrying fans to Craven Cottage stadium became stuck under the Victorian structure

Amid rows over funding, it could be years before the Thames crossing once again links north and south

The proposal - including driverless electric pods - would cost a fraction of the ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ needed to fully reopen the west London bridge, campaigners say

The proposal would cost a fraction of the ‘hundreds of millions of pounds’ needed to fully reopen the west London bridge, Possible said.