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The Latest Breaking News from Wandsworth

Wimbledon expansion plans suffer setback as Wandsworth council reject proposals

The All England Club has submitted proposals for 38 new courts in Wimbledon Park.

The Independent UK

Wimbledon expansion plans rejected by Wandsworth council

Planning committee votes unanimously against All England Club’s proposals to triple size on to listed park

The Guardian - UK

Wimbledon: All England Club's expansion plans rejected by Wandsworth Council

London mayor Sadiq Khan will have the final say on the £200m plans

Evening Standard

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Wimbledon stadium expansion hangs in balance as council votes on tennis complex

The All England Lawn Tennis Club’s plans to build a new 8,000-seater stadium in Wimbledon could be scuppered after council officials recommended rejecting it.

Evening Standard

Wimbledon poised for tense match as council votes on ‘industrial tennis complex’

Campaigners criticise loss of open space as Wandsworth prepares to decide on plan for 10-storey show court

The Guardian - UK

Wimbledon chiefs hope council rejects officers’ advice and backs expansion plans

The All England Club is hoping to build 38 new courts on land it owns in neighbouring Wimbledon Park.

The Independent UK

Wimbledon expansion suffers serious setback as planners advise council to reject application

The All England Lawn Tennis Club has been hoping to significantly expand the site

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Female Met Police officer denies sexual assault of woman

Sergeant Rachel Bright, 45, is accused of touching a woman without her consent while off duty in Wandsworth.

The Independent UK

You can't be serious: fury after planners back huge Wimbledon tennis expansion

Ambitious plans still to face Wandsworth Council and London Mayor before spades can go in ground

Evening Standard

HMP Wandsworth staff faced ‘10 assaults a week’ before prisoner escaped

Independent report says shortage of staff and resources made effective security very difficult

The Guardian - UK

Female Metropolitan Police sergeant appears in court charged with sexual assault

Sergeant Rachel Bright, 45, is accused of touching a woman without her consent while off duty in Wandsworth, south London.

The Independent UK

London MP Rosena Allin-Khan halts surgeries after attack on her adviser and ‘racist slurs’

Tooting MP Rosena Allin-Khan has temporarily called off face-to-face meetings with constituents after Wandsworth councillor Kate Forbes was attacked

Evening Standard

Wandsworth Bridge reopens after being closed for more than two months for repairs

Major west London river crossing reopens after repairs as council says it plans new segregated bike lane

Evening Standard

Violence, isolation and rat-infested cells: insiders on the state of English and Welsh prisons

Inmates and staff paint a picture of an overcrowded and understaffed prison system that doesn’t appear to be working

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Wandsworth prison escape highlights the need for penal reforms

Letters: Philip Priestley and Maurice Vanstone on imaginative alternatives to punitive prisons based on redress, restitution and reconciliation, and former prison governor Judith Feline on battling a broken system

The Week

Daniel Khalife escape: how secure are UK prisons?

The escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife from Wandsworth prison was hardly “The Shawshank Redemption”, said The Independent, but the “audacious” breakout invited a great deal of attention – and the “clamour for a scapegoat”.

The Guardian - UK

Khalife escape shows government failing ‘duty to keep people safe’, says Labour

Opposition says prison escape, crumbling concrete in schools and alleged Chinese spying show Tory dereliction of public services

Evening Standard

Inmate stabbed at Wandsworth Prison days after terror suspect escaped

An inmate has been stabbed at Wandsworth prison just days after the escape of terror suspect Daniel Khalife sparked a huge search operation.

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Daniel Khalife charged and will appear in court after escaping HMP Wandsworth

Daniel Khalife has been charged with escaping custody, the Met Police have said - the 21-year-old escaped HMP Wandsworth on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Terror suspect Daniel Khalife charged with escaping from Wandsworth Prison

The former soldier was arrested on a canal towpath in west London on Saturday morning.

The Independent UK

Daniel Abed Khalife charged with escaping from Wandsworth Prison

The terror suspect will appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Monday 11 September

Evening Standard

Around 40 inmates moved out of Wandsworth jail after Daniel Khalife escape

Khalife was pulled off a bike and arrested as he cycled through along a towpath in Northolt on Saturday

The Guardian - UK

Minister refuses to express confidence in Wandsworth governor after prison escape

Justice minister dodges question as he confirms full complement of staff were on duty when Daniel Khalife absconded

The Independent UK

Inmates moved out of Wandsworth Prison after Daniel Khalife escape

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the move has been made out of an ‘abundance of caution’

The Independent UK

Around 40 inmates moved out of Wandsworth Prison after Daniel Khalife escape

Justice Secretary Alex Chalk said the move has been made out of an ‘abundance of caution’.

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