Wandsworth Guardian

On Saturday (February 1), Transport for London (TfL) will be making significant changes to bus services in south London, including the withdrawal of route 118.

Instead, a revised route 45 will take over much of its route, running between Camberwell Green and Morden.

As part of these changes, route 45 will be extended from Brixton Hill to Morden, following the same path that route 118 previously covered.

However, it will no longer run between Elephant & Castle and Camberwell Green, or between Brixton Hill and Clapham Park.

The ambitious expansion plans come a month after Wingstop’s UK arm was taken over by a US private equity firm, for more than £400 million.

Wingstop UK said that at least 10 new locations will open in the first half of the year.

These will include dine-in restaurants in Swansea, Newcastle, Lakeside shopping centre in Essex, Streatham in south London and Cardigan Fields in Leeds.

The brand will also open a further delivery kitchen in Brighton.

A consultation has been launched to axe late night buses at the weekend for route 319 between Sloane Square and Streatham Hill.

These services have been suspended since the pandemic, but TfL plans to now make this change permanent.

Transport bosses say they have made the decision because there was “limited” use of the route before the pandemic, so its reintroduction cannot be justified.

They add that as the route is already suspended, withdrawing it completely “would not impact any existing passengers”.

Esteban Gonzalez, 26, pleaded not guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.

Wearing a jacket with a Palestine pin on his lapel, Gonzalez spoke in court to confirm his name and address before entering his plea.

Gonzalez, of Redbridge, is charged with the wilful obstruction of the free passage of Tower Bridge without lawful authority or excuse on October 19.

Dozens of pro-Palestine activists demonstrated outside the court during Tuesday’s hearing, with the sound of drums audible within the building.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police were called to Streatham High Road at 4.06am this morning (December 24) with reports of an incident.

They were dispatched to the scene with paramedics from the London Ambulance Service, where a man was found with stab wounds.

He was treated at the scene before being taken to hospital.

We await an update of his condition.

Road closures remain in place at the scene as enquiries get underway.

There have been no arrests at this stage.

Police have been pictured manning a cordon in place on the A23 Streatham Hill this evening (December 14).

It follows an earlier crash involving a bus and a cyclist at around 1.20pm.

Police were dispatched to the scene of the incident after being alerted to the crash and discovered the male cyclist injured.

He has since been taken to hospital where he remains fighting for his life.

The driver of the bus stopped at the scene.

The road closure will continue to impact a number of bus services and it is not yet clear when the road will reopen.

Officers from the Metropolitan Police were alerted to the crash in Streatham Hill A23 at around 1.20pm today (December 14).

The cyclist, a male, was found injured at the scene and was taken to hospital in a critical condition.

The driver of the bus stopped at the scene and there have been no arrests.

Enquiries into the circumstances surrounding the crash continue.

Road closures remain in place in the road headed northbound.

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that it is pressing ahead with planned changes to routes 45 and 59 despite widespread concern from local people in a consultation.

Route 45 currently runs between Elephant & Castle and Clapham via Camberwell and Brixton.

But its timetable will now be amended during February next year so that it instead travels between Camberwell and Morden.

The changes have been proposed so that the route can replace the 118 between Brixton and Morden, which will be scrapped at the same time.

Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed that the 118 bus route, which runs from Morden to Brixton, will be withdrawn from February 2025.

The decision follows a public consultation held between September 2 and October 13, 2024, which proposed changes to bus routes 45, 59, and 118.

TfL consultation report states: “The proposals aimed to simplify the bus network between Streatham, Brixton and Camberwell”.

During the consultation, TfL asked: "How would the proposed changes to routes 45, 59, and 118 impact you?”