M4 traffic being diverted overnight through Marlborough this week has sparked anger among campaigners in the town. The eastbound carriageway of the motorway between junctions 15 for Swindon and 14 is shut between 9pm-6am on Monday-Friday until June 17. Heavy goods vehicles are already causing daily chaos in Marlborough as they use Herd Street as a rat-run – with more than one a minute going past. And locals say diversions from the motorway have made life worse. Now they want proposals like congestion charging, one-way systems and road reclassification investigated by the council. “I’ve lived here for more than 20 years,” said Gaye Denyer of Marlborough Traffic Problems, who has asked a team of local residents to film and monitor the levels of traffic over the 10-day closure.
The HUB-Robeson Galleries presents "C/O Commonwealth," a juried exhibition which invited artists to make site-responsive and socially engaged works of local relevance and international significance, on view in the HUB-Robeson Center’s Art Alley and exhibition cases through June 25.
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The landlords of Grenfell Tower were allowed to ‘choose the price tag’ of tenants’ lives, a former resident has claimed (David Mirzoeff/PA)
The landlords of Grenfell Tower were allowed to choose the price tag of tenants lives, a former resident has claimed.
Speaking at an inquiry into the fire that killed 72 people in June 2017, Emma O Connor - who lived on the 20th floor despite having mobility problems and walking with crutches - said she struggled to deal with the “rude” tenant management organisation.
Ms O Connor claimed the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (KCTMO) would only give selective information on refurbishment work.
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image captionSome disabled residents living more than 20 storeys up said there were no plans for their evacuation
Disabled residents of Grenfell Tower have told a public inquiry that no-one discussed with them how to escape the 24-storey building in an emergency.
One woman said it took her 30 minutes to walk down from her 20th floor flat when lifts were not working.
Lawyers for residents and the bereaved have called the fire in June 2017 a landmark act of discrimination against disabled people.
It killed 72 people, including 41% of the tower s vulnerable adults.
As part of phase two of the inquiry, examining how the building was managed, disabled residents told how they had no escape routes in an emergency and how many of them struggled to access their own homes when lifts were broken.