Wandsworth Common

Big Bad Mouse, the long-running West End farce by Philip King, was revived with Jimmy Edwards and Eric Sykes in the lead roles for a national tour. "The play is set in the offices of a biscuit firm. Eric Sykes plays the down-trodden Mr Bloom, with Jimmy Edwards as the self-important senior partner, Mr Price-Hargreaves. The action is sparked off when Bloom is accused of attacking the chairman's niece on Wandsworth Common."

Traffic diversions were to come into force on Sunday in the Wandsworth Common area for approximately three months while a sewer shaft was built. Three roads were to become one-way only: Wandsworth Common North Side (between Marcilly Road and the junction of Spencer Park and Battersea Rise bridge); Spencer Park and Windmill Road (between Battersea Rise and Trinity Road); and Spencer Park between Wandsworth Common North Side and Windmill Road. Westbound traffic on the A3 was to turn left from Battersea Rise into Spencer Park, continue to the Trinity Road junction, turn right into Trinity Road, and follow the underpass slip road to Huguenot Place. The work was expected to end by 22 October.

Parishioners at Holy Trinity Church, Trinity Road, Wandsworth, were told by their vicar, the Rev John Shepherd, that "the walls of our church are literally crumbling to sand." An architect's five-yearly inspection of the 120-year-old Victorian Gothic church had given the congregation a shock. The cost of restoration could be up to £40,000, and unless more use could be made of the building, Mr Shepherd said that spending this amount "would not be justified" — while architects, planners, and church officials decided on the building's future, he was starting a restoration fund.