• Iconic PizzaExpress Jazz Club reopens with sixties-inspired redesign

  By PizzaExpress at 16:53 on 24/04/13

  

  Ella Fitzgerald, Amy Winehouse, Jamie Cullum and, most recently, Rolling Stones legend, Charlie Watts, have all played at the PizzaExpress Jazz Club.  Since opening its doors in the heart of Soho in 1969, the venue has become a hotbed for established and up and coming talent.  Now, it's going back to its roots with a sixties-style, jazz-inspired makeover. The news will be music to the ears for the legions of jazz fans who...

• Westminster Council wins payout from landmark housing fraud case

  By poppy_smith at 10:39 on 30/03/13

  

  Following a landmark criminal prosecution under the Fraud Act, Westminster Council has now secured a court order to recover more than £10,000 in profits made by a former council tenant who fraudulently sub-let her central London property. Ms Kelly-Louise Goatley was successfully prosecuted for sub-letting a council property in June 2012. She was housed by Westminster Council in 2000 as she was a priority case. But Westminster...

• State of the art dementia centre opens for Soho residents

  By poppy_smith at 10:17 on 19/03/13

  

  With the number of people in the UK with Dementia set to reach around 1.2 million by 2031, Westminster City Council today officially opens a £300,000 cutting edge facility to assist people with Dementia. The opening of the centre will be attended by Baroness Greengross, Vice-Chair of the APPG on Dementia and Ageing and Westminster Council's Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care – Rachael Robathan on Friday 15th March. The...

• Green light for 36 homes in Westminster

  By poppy_smith at 11:50 on 09/03/13

  

  Thirty-six new affordable homes are set to be built in Westminster after the City Council granted planning permission for the developments on Tuesday night. The planning decision comes after Westminster City Council announced in January this year that £3million from its affordable housing fund will be used to fund the Walterton and Elgin Community Homes (WECH) project. The project, on Westminster's Elgin Estate, W9, will...

• New guide dog service rolled out to Westminster

  By JulieGK at 20:39 on 06/03/13

  

  A new scheme called My Guide, provided by Guide Dogs for the Blind in London that has been piloted in Camden and Southwark, has been so successful that it's being rolled out to three other Borough's including Westminster. 93-year-old Helen Cunning, who has lived in Camden for more than sixty years is a great example as to how My Guide can change lives. She did not feel comfortable leaving the house with her eye condition, especially in...

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