The London Buzz - 1st July 2025
Briefly

A contractor has received an 11-year ban from directing a company for fraudulently inflating turnover to acquire a Covid Bounce Back loan. A new pop-up drug consumption site could establish a precedent in addressing nitazenes-related deaths. The replacement of tennis courts from the 2012 Olympics with padel courts has angered local tennis players. Additionally, Transport for London has allocated over £9.2 million to provide 800 staff with paid time-off for union work.
A building contractor from Southall has been banned from acting as a company director for 11 years after fraudulently overstating his company's turnover to secure the maximum Covid Bounce Back loan.
A pop-up drug consumption site near Brick Lane this week could become the first facility of its kind in the country, marking a groundbreaking new approach to the nitazenes drug deaths crisis.
Tennis courts built for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games are to be replaced with padel courts in a move that has infuriated tennis players.
Transport for London is giving more than 800 staff paid time-off to work for a union - at a cost of £9.2m to the organisation.
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