Work is due to get underway next week on a series of environmental improvements to the street scene along Balham’s Bedford Hill.

Super-fast broadband provider Community Fibre has now enabled around 30,000 homes in Wandsworth to link up to its full fibre network.

Councillors have welcomed an announcement by transport chiefs at TfL that an important local bus route that once vanished from the streets of Battersea without warning – is to increase its frequency from next month.