News in Richmond

This is a transcript of Richmond Council leader Gareth Roberts' weekly coronavirus briefing which you can watch above.

These are the Covid-19 statistics for Richmond upon Thames. Over the last seven days, 303 new cases of the virus have been linked to the borough, bringing the total number of cases identified since March to 2,012.

An arts charity has invited Richmond children to showcase their writing talents.

Art Richmond's Young Writers' competition is open to all Richmond pupils.

Here is your weekend weather forecast, Richmond.

A low pressure system from the Atlantic is bringing wet and windy weather to the country, and unfortunately we won't be spared.

Following last night's virtual public meeting of the Hammersmith Bridge Taskforce, Richmond Park MP Sarah Olney and Richmond Council leader Gareth Roberts have written to taskforce chair Baroness Vere, urging her to provide the funding to get the stabilisation work completed and the ferry service up and running.

During the meeting, it was clear that funding was the issue holding up progress, with the Department for Transport awaiting confirmation of a local contribution from the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham before they would commit funds.

A restaurant on Richmond Riverside has closed.

Jackson and Rye was a New York brasserie, bar and grill chain which served up American and French dishes and cocktails.

Hammersmith Bridge will not be able to open to traffic for six and a half years - and a toll could be imposed to make it financially viable.

The revelations were made at last night's first public meeting of the task force (Wednesday, October 28) set up by the Department for Transport last month to find solutions to reopening the bridge.

A utility contractor has been fined more than £37,000 for a series of safety breaches and operating without a valid street works permit.

Cadent Gas Ltd pleaded guilty at Lavender Hill Magistrates Court on October 15 to two offences.

An off-duty police officer who defied a night-time raid by jewellery thieves has been nominated for the National Police Bravery Awards.

At 3.30am on May 31 2019, PC Andrew Wienand, a newly qualified officer who was safely tucked up in bed in his South West London flat, heard a disturbance outside.

Shoppers at Sainsbury's in Richmond may now have to visit the store alone after the supermarket altered its guidance on shopping during the Covid-19 pandemic.

The supermarket has reintroduced its measure asking people to only send one adult per household at a time to do their shopping.

Met will continue to prioritise engagement and enforcement action in those boroughs which are worst affected by rises in infection rates, according to the latest localised data from independent analysis by Public Health England.

This means that in those boroughs where the transmission rate is highest, the Met will deploy additional officers on dedicated patrols to clamp down on breaches of the regulations.