Ross Lydall
@rosslydall.bsky.social
Transport Editor and City Hall Editor, The London Standard
Email: ross.lydall@standard.co.uk
Email: ross.lydall@standard.co.uk
Third red paint attack on same properties in Walthamstow www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Man tells of latest red paint attack on home wrongly dubbed a brothel
Third early-morning attack on same Walthamstow homes and businesses
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June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Third red paint attack on same properties in Walthamstow www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
We need tulips in every “Mini Holland” www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Flower power: central London cycle lane lined with tulips made from recycled plastic
Cycling festival being held across capital, from Hounslow and Hammersmith to Hackney, over Bank Holiday weekend
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May 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
We need tulips in every “Mini Holland” www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
“I was told to bed myself down for three nights and wait for someone to turn up."
Woman breaks down as she tells @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social what it is like to be homeless in London
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Woman breaks down as she tells @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social what it is like to be homeless in London
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500 homes to be given to homeless under Sadiq Khan's plan to eradicate rough sleeping
Woman breaks down in tears in front of mayor as she tells of the terror of being forced to live on the streets and wait for help
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May 20, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“I was told to bed myself down for three nights and wait for someone to turn up."
Woman breaks down as she tells @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social what it is like to be homeless in London
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Woman breaks down as she tells @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social what it is like to be homeless in London
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New safety alert issued for east London bus station where pedestrian was killed by double decker www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Safety alert at crash death bus station where drivers 'fail to let people cross' road
Health and Safety Executive sends TfL another warning about Walthamstow bus station, where a pensioner was killed by double decker
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May 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
New safety alert issued for east London bus station where pedestrian was killed by double decker www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Pedestrian dies after collision with e-bike rider in west London www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Pedestrian dies after collision with e-bike rider on busy west London high street
Man in 60s dies in hospital more than a month after crash at the Shepherd’s Bush market end of Uxbridge Road
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May 19, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Pedestrian dies after collision with e-bike rider in west London www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Exclusive: Another red paint attack on homes in east London www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/r...
Exclusive CCTV footage of red paint attack on homes in Walthamstow
EXCLUSIVE: Watch CCTV footage of latest in series of early-morning attacks reportedly linked to Chinese gangs
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May 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Exclusive: Another red paint attack on homes in east London www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/r...
Latest in the court case relating to the death of cyclist Harry Webb: accused driver pleads not guilty and expected to claim 'loss of consciousness' www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/h...
Woman driver pleads not guilty to causing death of cyclist Harry Webb in Hackney
Accused expected to claim she suffered ‘loss of consciousness’, court told
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May 16, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Latest in the court case relating to the death of cyclist Harry Webb: accused driver pleads not guilty and expected to claim 'loss of consciousness' www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/h...
Barnet council by-election: Labour holds seat, Tories second but Reform polls 592 votes
May 16, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Barnet council by-election: Labour holds seat, Tories second but Reform polls 592 votes
Own goal? Council crackdown on free parking spreads to more children’s sports venues www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Hackney marshes parking row: astroturf pitches, rugby, sailing and tennis targeted
Council to charge up to £5.70 an hour to park at Mabley Green, West Reservoir and Spring Hill park
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May 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Own goal? Council crackdown on free parking spreads to more children’s sports venues www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Fewer than 4,000 affordable homes started in London in 2024/25 - with eight boroughs building fewer than 10 new homes www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
May 14, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Fewer than 4,000 affordable homes started in London in 2024/25 - with eight boroughs building fewer than 10 new homes www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Inside City Hall: pictures show the London landmark half-derelict and awaiting a promised transformation into offices, restaurants and shops www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
May 14, 2025 at 6:31 AM
Inside City Hall: pictures show the London landmark half-derelict and awaiting a promised transformation into offices, restaurants and shops www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Today’s adventure… 🚲 💻
May 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Today’s adventure… 🚲 💻
London’s housing crisis: three words that never seem to go away
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Sadiq Khan's plan to build on London's greenbelt is a total misdirection
Sir Sadiq Khan has stepped back into the breach by signalling a willingness to allow developers to build on pockets of Green Belt land.
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May 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
London’s housing crisis: three words that never seem to go away
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Wow! Victory for West Dulwich LTN campaigners www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
South London low-traffic scheme opponents celebrate shock High Court victory
History made as High Court rules against Lambeth council over traffic scheme
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May 9, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Wow! Victory for West Dulwich LTN campaigners www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Its all kicking off at Hackney marshes: council plans to introduce parking charges for grassroots footballers (and charge more than Westfield) www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Hackney Marshes football clubs slam 'extortionate' parking charge plan
Hackney council to charge up to £5.70 an hour to park at the marshes where David Beckham and John Terry learned to play
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May 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Its all kicking off at Hackney marshes: council plans to introduce parking charges for grassroots footballers (and charge more than Westfield) www.standard.co.uk/news/london/...
Time trials ditched and London Duathlon feared unlikely to return to Richmond Park after Royal Parks puts the brakes on cyclists www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Royal Parks 20mph speed limit for cyclists could prevent return of London Duathlon
Fears that annual event will never take place again in Richmond Park - as cycling club ditches time trials
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May 2, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Time trials ditched and London Duathlon feared unlikely to return to Richmond Park after Royal Parks puts the brakes on cyclists www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
This Lime bike v London bus crash gets worse every time I watch it
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Lime bike rider miraculously avoids serious injury in bus crash
Video of horror crash in Shoreditch viewed hundreds of thousands of times
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May 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This Lime bike v London bus crash gets worse every time I watch it
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“Headphone dodgers” row gets a hearing at PMQs - with people who put feet on seats next in the firing line @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
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Turn it down! Passengers who play loud music on trains are anti-social, suggests PM
Londoners back £1,000 fines for passengers who play music on speakerphone
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April 30, 2025 at 3:14 PM
“Headphone dodgers” row gets a hearing at PMQs - with people who put feet on seats next in the firing line @paulkohlersw19.bsky.social
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Virtually every time I travel by train or Tube in London these days I spot a fare dodger blatantly pushing through the barriers.
(I don’t blame station staff for not daring to intervene - one did at Liverpool St recently and risked assault)
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(I don’t blame station staff for not daring to intervene - one did at Liverpool St recently and risked assault)
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War on fare dodgers stepped up amid concern of surge in ‘gate-pushers’
Efforts to target bus network hampered by lack of Met police support
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April 30, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Virtually every time I travel by train or Tube in London these days I spot a fare dodger blatantly pushing through the barriers.
(I don’t blame station staff for not daring to intervene - one did at Liverpool St recently and risked assault)
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(I don’t blame station staff for not daring to intervene - one did at Liverpool St recently and risked assault)
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Alarming research reveals the scale of the danger posed to pedestrians and cyclists - especially children - by "supersize" SUV cars www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
'Supersize SUVs much more likely to cause fatal injury to cyclists and pedestrians'
Sports utility vehicles account for more than half of new cars bought in UK
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April 30, 2025 at 6:38 AM
Alarming research reveals the scale of the danger posed to pedestrians and cyclists - especially children - by "supersize" SUV cars www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
What not to do if you drop your AirPods on the Tube… www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Don't do this! Tube chaos after passenger jumps onto live tracks 'to recover AirPod'
Thousands stuck in tunnels while CCTV was checked to ensure passenger had not fallen under train at Earl’s Court station
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April 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
What not to do if you drop your AirPods on the Tube… www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Cyclists in royal parks asked to limit speed to 20mph www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
Speeding cyclists are being urged to slow down in London's Royal Parks
But it’s unclear how rule will be enforced after Royal Parks police axed
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April 25, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Cyclists in royal parks asked to limit speed to 20mph www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
New data on cycling in the City of London 👀
April 25, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New data on cycling in the City of London 👀
Coroner issues 'intoxicated passengers on Tube' alert after artist's accidental death www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...
TfL urged to do more to safeguard intoxicated passengers after artist's Tube death
Sarah Cunningham was killed after accidentally walking into Tube tunnel
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April 25, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Coroner issues 'intoxicated passengers on Tube' alert after artist's accidental death www.standard.co.uk/news/transpo...