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or nearly a century and a half, the of champagne were guzzled (not to RHS
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FChelsea Flower Show has been a mention a further 45,000 canapés that ph
bucolic paradise for city-dwellers were battened down the hatches). ogra
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looking to escape the London hum- But spare a thought for the garden Ph
drum. designers, who have little more than
Over the coming weeks, organisers a month to prepare. Rain or shine,
will be performing their ritualistic sun embattled horticulturalists will beaver,
dances in the hope that the ‘Chelsea furrow, turf and plant in a bid to win
Shower Flow’ does not rear its ugly a coveted gold medal. The process is
head. It may have been 86 years ago, painstaking, made all the more so by
but the memory of 1932 remains vivid: the presence of the ‘Chelsea flu’. Yes,
weeping skies resulted in the summer such a thing exists. In an interview
house display falling into pieces. with The Guardian, Nina Baxter said:
Alas, such bad fortune will not “The worst part is when the plane trees
bestow itself upon this year’s festivities. on Main Avenue dump their pollen…
With a Royal Wedding a week before you get it in the back of your throat
the show, it would be wholly un- and in your eyes... Everyone hopes for
patriotic of the British weather to not a big strong wind overnight, so it takes
maintain a stiff upper lip. Besides, it off the trees all in one go.”
the British monarchy knows how to So the winds shall blow. Smooth
weather a storm or two; in a reign seas never made a skilled sailor, and
spanning 65 years, the Queen has only it will be as much a test of mettle as
Rough winds do shake the
RHS Chelsea missed the show on 12 occasions. It is of ability for the designers. While the
darling buds of May, but not so unlikely that a few drops of rain will Chelsea Flower Show may no longer
Flower Show make it 13. be Britain’s largest (the Hampton
at the Chelsea Flower Show.
Across the Royal Hospital Court Palace Show has since taken
2018 Between May 20th and Chelsea’s sprawling grounds, 11 acres the crown), few can deny its immense
are occupied by the show, equating prestige. Attracting talent from all
May 24th, an estimated
22-26 May to around ten football pitches. There over the world, the RHS Chelsea
157,000 horticulturalists will are also 250 trade stands and 100 Flower Show is still the place to
By James Billot
exhibitors’ stands in the Great Pavilion, be for budding and blossoming
be flooding through the gates
which covers around 2.9 acres. Walking horticulturalists. As one former
of the Royal Hospital Chelsea, such distances may seem daunting, but contestant described it, the Chelsea
fear not for our indefatigable garden- Flower Show is the ‘World Cup’ of
the home of the world’s most
goers. Last year, to stave off any inkling gardening. Fortunately for Brits, we
prestigious horticultural event. of dehydration, a modest 28,823 glasses might actually win this one.
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Turnout for the whole borough: 44.95%

Hammersmith and Fulham: HEAR, HEAR
Overall number of seats: 46
Conservative: 11 (-9)
The local elections on May
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still paint a portrait of how
Turnout for the whole borough: 39%
the political reality in West
Wandsworth:
London has changed since
Overall number of seats: 60
2014. Conservative: 33 (-8)
Green Party: 0
Kensington and Chelsea: Labour: 26 (+7)
Overall number of seats: 50 Liberal Democrats: 1
Conservative: 36 (-1) UK Independence Party: 0
Green Party: 0 Other: 1 (+1)
Labour: 13 (+1)
Liberal Democrats: 1 Turnout for the whole borough: 37.2%
UK Independence Party: 0
Other: 0 Lambeth:
Overall number of seats: 63
Turnout for the whole borough: 39.7% Conservative: 1 (-2)
Green Party: 5 (+4)
Westminster: Labour: 57 (+2)
Overall number of seats: 60 Liberal Democrats: 1
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Conservative: 41 (-3) UK Independence Party: 0
Green Party: 0 Other: 0
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lecture, Lord David Neuberger on the effect of minimum wages on
Dr Sarah The outgoing Head of the UK Supreme unemployment.
or those looking for
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cerebral to do in London in
Paying: 21st Bridget Kendall MBE: ‘Russia after June 19 12.30-1.30:The Social
May and June, KCW Today Century Communism’ Market Foundation 11 Tufton Street,
Wars’ What is Russia’s place in the world now? Westminster, London SW1
has compiled a list of talks,
Why have Plaisterers’ Hall Is there more volatility in British
lectures and events below. the wars in One London Wall, 1 London Wall, politics? If so, why is it happening?
Afghanistan London EC2Y 5JU, UK How should politicians and the public
May 18th: National Archives lecture: and Iraq lasted longer than any others in understand the changes going on in party
‘Suffrage 100’ US history? June 1st: Oxford Union Lecture, politics and in British elections.
Archives at night on the law breakers and 10 St James’s Square, President Viktor Yushchenko The Social Market Foundation,with the
law makers of the Suffragette Movement London SW1Y 4LE A talk from the former president of Economic and Social Research Council
Bessant Dr, Richmond, Kew TW9 4DU Ukraine and a hero of the 2004 Orange (ESRC), brings academic research
Foreign Policy Centre: ‘Free speech on Revolution. on public policy into the heart of
May 19th: The wedding of Prince Harry trial: journalists, writers, and academics Westminster. In our next seminar, we’ll
of Wales and Miss Meghan Markle under attack in Turkey’ June 7th: Intelligence Squared lecture, be joined by Professor Jane Green, Co-
at St George’s Chapel. The Foreign Policy Centre, Article 19 Mary Beard: ‘Women and Power’ Director of the British Election Study.
Screenings held across London. and Reporters Without Borders seminar Beard discusses misogyny’s deep cultural [email protected]
on the challenges against free speech in roots in conversation with Miriam
May 22nd: The Royal Geographical Turkey. Gonzalez.
Society: Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House, Emmanuel Centre, Marsham St, OUT OF TOWN
Be Inspired: Popski and Bagnold-desert House of Commons, London, SW1A Westminster SW1P 3DW
and war 2LW The Festival of Education:
An exploration of some long-hidden June 9th: Trooping the Colour, Horse Wellington College
stories, letters, maps and photographs May 24th: Demos Think Tank: ‘The Guards Parade From 21st to 22nd June The festival
about men, guns and sand Optimism Project: Britain’s bright A military tradition that stretches back brings together up to 5000 festival goers,
www.rgs.org/events/be-inspired-popski- future’ to the eighteenth century. including England’s leading influencers,
and-bagnold A participatory discussion on what Buckingham Palace politicians, journalists, business leaders,
1 Kensington Gore, is best for Britain, our assets and practitioners and policy-makers.
London, SW7 2AR opportunities and where the country can June 11th: Adam Smith Institute Berkshire details; www.epi.org.uk
healthy food choices for themselves and for Housing and Environment, said.
Junk food Lambeth goes
their families. “Improving air quality is a priority for
“That is why I am proposing to ban Lambeth, and our new street cleaning
advertising green
adverts for harmful junk food from vehicles are only one of the many things
our entire Tube and bus network.” Mr we are doing, such as discouraging idling
junked on TfL
Khan intends to ban adverts for food and increasing the amount of monitoring
and drinks high in fat, salt or sugar. A equipment on our streets.”
spokesman for the mayor's office said Regular street cleaning vehicles burn
if the ban comes in “everyone will be diesel and while modern engines are far
Junk food advertising could be banned
affected, whether it’s the biggest fast less harmful than older ones, they are still
across the entire Transport for London
food chain or the most niche”, and their not nearly as clean as the electric version.
(TfL) network, City Hall has announced.
products will be assessed against the Another added benefit is noise pollution
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan,
nutrient profiling model developed by as electric vehicles run completely silent.
says he wants to tackle the “ticking time
the Food Standards Agency. Lambeth is also aiming to increase
bomb” of child obesity in the capital.
“Companies could”, he added, electric vehicle ownership among
If the proposal is approved, adverts
“choose to swap their adverts for burgers residents with £200,000 going towards
for “unhealthy food and drink” will be
or fizzy drinks for healthier products fast charging points. The council has also
banned on the London Underground,
within their range, such as salads or been trialling using lamp columns as
Overground, buses and bus shelters. The
bottled water”. charging points.
scheme is backed by child health experts
but the Advertising Association said it
Roget would have “little impact”. 7
wart The junk food advertising ban
© Ste forms part of Mr Khan’s London Food Lambeth Council is investing £600,000
ph Strategy, which has been published for in zero-emissions electric road sweeping
ogra consultation. TfL’s director of TfL’s vehicles, helping keep both the streets
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Ph transport strategy Lilli Matson said it and the area’s air quality clean. The fleet
KCWTODAY
had a “large advertising estate with a of five electric vehicles will be operated
diverse audience”, and is supporting by Lambeth’s street cleaning contractor
the mayor's attempts to make London Veolia as an enhancement to its existing
healthier. services. Dubbed the Green Machine
Mr Khan wants to "reduce the 500ZE, the new sweepers will be
influence and pressure that can be put on debuted in the summer of 2018. BIRTHDAY
children and families to make unhealthy “This new investment will help make
choices". He said: "I am determined to our streets even cleaner without E D I T I O N
do all I can to tackle this issue with the detriment to London’s air quality,” Cllr
powers I have and help Londoners make Jenny Brathwaite, Cabinet Member
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NatWest Bank and Hammersmith Kathy Joyce – NatWest Local Director advised “the story fraudsters present you
with may change, sometimes they claim to be calling from the banks fraud team,
Police are jointly warning residents other times from the police. Please be aware that no bank or police force would
ever ask an individual to transfer funds to another bank or withdraw cash in any
about a scam currently operating circumstances”
in the area. NatWest work in partnership with National Trading Standards on the Friends
Against Scams initiative which encourages everyone to be more aware of scams,
how they work and what to watch out for. Fraudsters will try many different ways
to scam you of your money. They will sound like the bank, they will sound like
CRIMINALS ARE TARGETING PEOPLE BY CLAIMING TO BE the police and in some situations even provide you with a false crime reference
number – anything which will convince you to follow their instructions.
FROM HAMMERSMITH POLICE STATION.
They advise that bank cards have been compromised and
National Trading Standards Provide 5 Top Tips:
indicate that bank staff are involved and the matter is being
• Never disclose your security details such as bank card details
investigated. They go to great lengths to convince their
password or PINs to anyone.
victims – often naming specific bank staff and advising that
• Don't assume everyone is genuine
no one should know about the investigation. Victims are then
• Don't be rushed
instructed to withdraw a lump sum in cash with details to • Listen to your instincts
provide to a courier who will collect or to transfer funds from • Stay in control
their account to another bank.
You can learn more about Friends Against Scams and how to be
scam aware by visiting your nearest NatWest Branch or search for
Detective Inspector Suzanne Grimmer of the Met’s Fraud and Linked Crime
Friends Against Scams online and visit the National Trading Standards
Online (FALCON) unit, said: “This is a particularly shameful deception targeting
website.
elderly and vulnerable people, taking advantage of their trust of authority figures.
The fraudsters have developed expert skills in manipulating people to hand
over money and giving confidential information. The fraudsters lack morality,
conscience or compassion.
If you or someone you know is contacted by an individual claiming to be police or
your bank and asks you to help with an anti-fraud operation, hang up and either
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wildlife and provides a – schoolchildren, older residents,
place to learn about the community groups and the council.”
importance of plants in “There are more than 80 community
our everyday lives. gardens, dotted throughout the borough
Chelsea Physic which are going from strength to
Garden’s Head of strength both as food-growing spaces
Education, Michael and places to simply enjoy and relax”
Holland said: “We Founded by the Worshipful Society
welcome the opportunity of Apothecaries of London in 1673,
to take our work into Chelsea Physic Garden is renowned for
the community and its collection of rare medicinal and useful
to offer the chance for plants. Their knowledge within this area
everyone to enjoy and will make the community garden bloom
understand plants more with an array of edible and medicinal
fully. All life depends plants. Alongside local community
on plants and this will groups and school children, Chelsea
be the seam that runs Physic Garden aims to develop an urban
through our collaborative green oasis, where people can learn new
work in this new North skills, meet people and enjoy nature.
Kensington project. This Each Thursday, Chelsea Physic Garden
is all following on from will hold drop-in gardening sessions for
ondon’s oldest botanical garden, the long tradition at Chelsea Physic local families and workshops will run
Chelsea Physic
Lthe Chelsea Physic Garden is Garden of inspiring people about plants throughout the Summer.
working in collaboration with and their importance in our lives. My To learn more about the Chelsea Physic
Garden unveil
the Council’s local community and thanks go to everyone who has supported Garden visit: www.chelseaphysicgarden.
gardening team to continue the good this initiative so far with their vision and co.uk
new Community
work that Mind Kensington & Chelsea commitment.” The Chelsea Physic Garden houses
undertook to transform the Elkstone “Chelsea Physic Garden is one of the renowned Tangerine Dream Cafe
Garden in North
Road Community Garden Oasis into my favourite places in the borough,” which is well-known and loved for
a hidden urban paradise in North Kensington and Chelsea Council Leader, its wonderful organic salads, savoury
Kensington
Kensington. Cllr Elizabeth Campbell, said, “I want dishes,cakes and pastries and its catering
Staff and volunteers at Chelsea Physic this borough to be defined by the way services.
couple. Acoustic guitar for the top three acts,
Aspiring
Ms Craddock will direct a team busking equipment from Roland, a
of florists that have arrived from all busking trip to Amsterdam, career
musicians &
industries, including photography, mentoring at The Hub (Institute of
metalwork, carpentry and fashion to Contemporary Music Performance)
performers
create displays at St George’s Chapel and recording time at a top professional
and St George’s Hall, according to studio to produce a single. The most
required for City Hall ‘Gigs’
Kensington Palace. promising finalist will win a Gibson HP
White garden roses, peonies competition Acoustic guitar.
(understood to be Meghan’s favourite) Entries for Gigs include three categories:
and foxgloves will feature around the Youth (11-15 years old, up to eight
bride and groom on their wedding day members), Soloists/Duos (16-25 Calvert
(May 19th). The floral displays in St years old, one or two members) and hris
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Ms Craddock will use flowers and during the live performance period.
Fulham florist
plants that are currently in season and They will choose their top acts to reach
that bloom naturally in May, such as the Grand Final, held on Sunday
chosen for
beech, birch and hornbeam. 2 September at Westfield London.
After the wedding, the palace said Through our online voting system, the
Royal Wedding
that these plants will be distributed to public acan choose their favourite acts.
charitable organisation. The Mayor’s annual busking competition, Busk in London Programme
on May 19th Ms Craddock said: “I am excited and Gigs, is now underway, and aspiring Director, Kate Jones, said: “London is
honoured to have been chosen by Prince young songwriters and performers from a global capital of music and home to
Harry and Meghan Markle to design Westminster are being urged to enter many of the world’s greatest artists and
and create their wedding flowers. and have the chance to perform in performers. In order for London to
Floral designer Philippa Craddock “Working with them has been London’s most high-profile performance maintain its status music powerhouse,
has been chosen by Prince Harry and an absolute pleasure. The process has locations. it’s vitally important that we support the
Meghan Markle to arrange the flowers been highly collaborative, free-flowing, Gigs is the largest street music stars of tomorrow.
for the big day this month. creative and fun. competition in the UK giving young “Gigs opens up amazing opportunities
With a shop in central London, “The final designs will represent artists the opportunity to perform around to perform in unique spaces and is a
Phillippa Craddock Flowers in Selfridges them as a couple, which I always aim to the city and the chance to compete for a chance to gain access to, and advice from,
and a flower studio in Fulham, the self- achieve in my work, with local sourcing, host of music prizes. industry leaders. We’re calling on the
taught designer said that it had been an seasonality and sustainability being at the This year’s prizes are worth over young musicians of Westminster to enter
“absolute pleasure” to work for the royal forefront.” £15,000 and include an Epiphone this year’s Gigs competition.
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gathered on May 12th in Central
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against unfair wages, Zero Hour
Contracts, and austerity measures.
Workers involved in current disputes
including those at restaurant chains
TGI Fridays and McDonald’s joined the
march, along with nurses, ambulance
crews, postmen, teachers, civil servants
and cleaners. power at work, by strengthening their years. Because our NHS is at breaking expressed solidarity with the Windrush
TUC general secretary Frances rights and freedoms to organise together point. And because years of cuts have led generation, the Grenfell Tower victims,
O'Grady said before the march started to improve their lives”. to poverty, homelessness and despair for and their rejection of racism.
that workers have had enough of low pay, The TUC website states that the too many.” One demonstrator told KCW Today
poor quality jobs and constant cuts to march was organized “Because real wages Marchers in the crowd carried signs that the movement was all inclusive, and
public services. are still lower than before the crash in and chanted slogans calling out the that they reject the idea of immigrants
The event was also attended by 2008. Because three million workers are Tory party’s policies and the privileged and refugees being a contributing factor
Leader of the Labour Party Jeremy stuck on zero hour contracts, in agency wealthy elite for the current economic to the United Kingdom’s economic
Corbyn who told the crowd that the work and in low paid self-employment. situation. Signs included messages such troubles. “Everyone should be welcome
Labour party will “proudly support” Because hardworking public servants as “Cut war not welfare” and “Crack here. Support free movement.” said
workers and pledged to give them “more haven’t had a proper payrise for eight down on tax dodgers”. The marchers also another demonstrator to KCW Today.
beds.
Number of
The statistics published at the
beginning of May also show that 11.6%
‘last minute’
of patients who had their operation
cancelled did not have their treatment
cancellations for
rearranged within 28 days, again the
highest proportion since 2005. The
NHS operations
number of patients waiting more than
18 weeks to start planned treatment was
reach epidemic
491,102 in March, up 35% on a year ago.
Only 87.2% of patients were seen within
levels
18 weeks; the government’s 92% target
has not been met since February 2016.
The number of patients having to wait
more than a year for treatment rose to
apartments. The number of operations cancelled at 2,755, up 80% on a year ago.
Fulham F.C.
As well as providing jobs and new the last minute by NHS hospitals in the The shadow health secretary, Jonathan
facilities for the local community, H&F first quarter of the year was the highest Ashworth, described the record number
to expand
Council has secured a series of benefits since records began in 1994, official of cancelled operations as “a badge of
for the local community, worth a total of figures show. shame for ministers”, blaming a lack of
Craven Cottage
£1.8m. These include: £150,000 worth of There were 25,475 such cancellations investment. The proportion of patients
improvements to Putney Bridge station; in the first three months of 2018, at hospital A&E departments treated
£660,000 up front for the restoration and equating to 1.3% of all admissions, the within the government’s four-hour target
maintenance of Bishops Park, with that highest proportion since 2005. The was 82% in April, well below the 95%
figure rising to more than £1m within 10 Royal College of Surgeons blamed the standard, but an improvement on the
years. increase on “extreme pressures” on A&E historic low of 76.4% in March.
ulham F.C. will redevelop its There will also be contributions towards departments and delayed discharges. The regulator NHS Improvement
FRiverside Stand to increase the a number of local transport schemes, Its vice-president, Ian Eardley, said: said: “Too many patients are still
capacity of its Craven Cottage focusing on green transport and the safety “Patients are being forced to wait waiting too long in A&E and for
stadium to 29,600 with work beginning at of pedestrians. too long for planned surgery and an planned surgery.” NHS Providers, which
2020. The Thames Path will be opened for “This is great news for Fulham FC unacceptable number have suffered the represents hospitals, said services were
the first time, so pedestrians can walk from and Craven Cottage at a time when they stress of having their operation cancelled clearly overstretched. A spokesman
Hammersmith to Putney Bridge. are pushing for promotion to the Premier at the last minute. It is very distressing for the Department of Health and
As part of the £100m development, League,” said Kim Dero, Chief Executive for patients who are often in pain or Social Care said the government had
Fulham FC will: demolish the existing of H&F Council. immobile, and the delay could mean committed to a ‘sustainable multi-year
Riverside Stand, to be replaced by a new “It is also great news for the local that their condition deteriorates.” The settlement’ for the NHS to help manage
two-tier stand with an increased capacity, community, who will benefit in many ways last-minute cancellations were on top of growing patient demand. “The number
and improved facilities: install a new from the redevelopment. Our job now is the large number postponed in advance. of cancelled operations remains low in
riverside walkway, to be open to the public to ensure the hugely impressive package of Over the winter NHS England told the context of the millions of operations
on non-match-days: and build new leisure associated benefits is delivered for the local hospitals to cancel tens of thousands of performed in the NHS each year,” he
and retail facilities, plus nine serviced area.” planned operations in order to free up said.
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Astronomy
ot so long ago, space itself was
Nthought to register absolute
zero, the temperature at which
The Coolest place in the Universe
all atomic activity terminates, except
for some quantum effects. Because heat
By Scott Beadle FRAS is simply the movement of atoms, the
coldest anything can be is when all
such motion has stopped. This happens
at -273.15º Celsius or 0º Kelvin (K), by
definition.
Since the 1960s, it’s been known
that leftover heat from the Big Bang
pervades the universe, usually expressed
as 2.73K. This means a morsel of
warmth remains everywhere. To
achieve absolute cold, you would have
to not merely isolate yourself from
this all pervasive cosmic microwave
background (CMB) radiation, but
also find a way to suck out every bit of
remaining atomic motion. Strangely
enough using clever processes
scientists have attained this nearly
perfect artificial cold here on Earth
to within a few billionths of a degree,
so be careful if you’re in the vicinity
of MIT, Building 26-243 Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA!
So where is the coldest natural
place in the universe? It’s a location
that, amazingly enough, manages to be
chillier than space itself; a thermometer
would read less than the 2.73K
temperature of the CMB. It is the
Boomerang Nebula.
Here in the constellation Centaurus,
an impressive 5000 light-years away,
the newly minted planetary nebula
expands so rapidly that the Boomerang
has a temperature only -272º a mere 1
degree above absolute zero. This is the
only known object whose temperature
is naturally lower than the background
radiation of the universe
You could describe the This reflecting cloud of gas and
dust has two nearly symmetric lobes
universe as a vast icebox
of matter that are being ejected from a
punctuated by far flung islands central star. Over a period of 1500years,
nearly one and a half times the mass
of intense heat. Places that
of the Sun has been lost by the central
are neither hot nor cold, are star in an ejection process known as
bipolar outflow.
so rare as to be essentially
Astronomers are unsure as to the
non-existent. Of course, we causes of bipolar outflows, which
are associated with both young and
just happen to happily live in
old stars. The best guess with the
one such place, a planet called Boomerang is that it is a very old star.
Presently, this ancient sun spews out
Earth, as yet the only example
at least 10 times more material yearly
of true moderation in the than is normal for the early stages of
a nascent planetary nebula. This wind
entire known universe (other
is blowing at some 483,000 km/hr,
than its inhabitants)! carrying the supercold gas away from
the dying star in the centre. In time
this star should grow much hotter
before it peaks, collapses, and settles
into the ultimate white dwarf state that
is the destiny of all planetary nebula
progenitors. Then, the current extreme
cold will be replaced by its exact
opposite.
Top:
But for today, however, and only
Boomerang Nebula. NASA/ESA Hubble Heritage Team
for right now, the resulting superfast
Left:
nebula expansion is creating the
Boomerang Nebula showing arcs and filaments taken with the
Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS). NASA/ESA/ Hubble ACS Team. ultimate Big Chill in the universe.