The City of London Corporation has today launched its search for a design team to develop and deliver plans for a major renewal of the Barbican Centre. The Barbican Renewal project, first announced in February, puts culture front-and-centre of the City’s recovery from the pandemic. The Barbican is one of London’s most ambitious and unique architectural achievements; it is a global icon of brutalist architecture, renowned for its scale of ambition and consistency of design.

Under-funded by police resources and under-reported by victims, but overwhelming for many who fall prey to it, fraud provides the main focus of this evening’s City of London Police Authority Board Dinner. The Chair of the Board, James Thomson, is expected to call upon the Government to increase police resources for tackling cyber-enabled crime – which accounts for 80% of fraud – and to tell the audience, which includes the event’s keynote speaker, Security Minister, Damian Hinds MP, that local forces should prioritise investigating fraud.

Members of the capital’s emergency services and staff at the City of London Corporation have observed a two-minute silence today, in tribute to police officers, firefighters, paramedics, mountain rescuers, and RNLI crew members and lifeguards who have lost their lives as a result of their duties.

The Ham&High reports on the extension of a children’s playground on Hampstead Heath, and how a schoolgirl got involved in the fundraising campaign for the improvements by selling jam made from berries grown on the Heath.

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