News in Richmond

Earlier this week we brought you the most expensive streets in central Richmond.

As we all know, Richmond is a fantastic place to live thanks to its abundance of parks and green spaces, lively high streets and the river that runs through it.

Long-range forecasting from the Met Office has detailed how climate change will lead to increasingly extreme weather.

Torrential rainfall and maximum temperatures will rise, placing challenges on health, infrastructure and services.

Breast Cancer awareness month runs in October and we have teamed up with Richmond-based psychotherapist and cancer counsellor Karin Sieger to do just that: raise awareness and increase understanding of the disease. In this article Karin explains how cancer can affect you as a relative or friend of some with cancer.

When someone is diagnosed with cancer, relatives and friends are often the forgotten ones. If that is you, then you will know, that you are also affected by the disease and may require help to cope. But you may also think, that you are not as deserving or as important as the person with cancer.

Richmond Card owners get their first 30 minutes of parking for free, but the handout is not available this Sunday due to an upgrade.

Notices have been attached to parking meters across the borough and the same message is displayed on the council website.

A single day record of 72 new coronavirus cases have been confirmed among Richmond residents.

The virus has spread rapidly among the borough's population since the beginning of September.

Following the announcement that the government will not be offering a school meal voucher scheme over October half-term, both Richmond Council and Kingston Council have announced that they are going to offer a half-term food support package for vulnerable children, meaning that children from the lowest income families don't go hungry over the school break.

Guidance will be launched soon by both councils to let eligible families know how they can collect their vouchers.

Rides in a horse-drawn cart around Richmond Park are returning this festive season.

They are run by Operation Centaur in partnership with the Royal Park charity.

A pub in the centre of Richmond may be turned into two new venues if licensing terms are approved.

The lease on 2-3 Duke Street, is available after The Duke pub was unable to reopen after lockdown.

The type of crimes and the frequency they are committed varies considerably across Richmond, data shows.

Richmond is London's safest borough, with an overall crime rate of 127 offences per 1,000 people. At the other end of the scale Camden records 283 crimes per 1,000 people.

Richmond Council is developing a half-term food support package for vulnerable children.

Earlier this week, MPs voted down a proposal to make free school meals available outside term time for the next six months.