PUBLISHED: 12:00 04 December 2018 Harry Taylor Love Island star Eyal Brooker with one-year-old Millie. Picture: Royal Free Hospital Archant Former Love Island star Eyal Brooker gave gifts to poorly youngsters during a visit to the Royal Free Hospital yesterday. The former reality TV contestant was a world away from the villa in Majorca, as the 23-year-old handed out presents on behalf of Camp Simcha. The Jewish charity, based in north London organises toy drops to London hospitals during the festive season.Among the children he met was one-year-old Millie, who had been brought into the Royal Free after trapping her finger in the wheel of a bicycle, and nearly cutting it off.Jodie Littlechild, Millie’s mum said: “Millie cried for a couple of minutes when it happened but then started laughing. She is such a happy little girl but I was so worried when she was having her surgery. “She’s absolutely fine now thank goodness and the finger … [Read more...] about Former Love Island star Eyal Brooker meets children during Royal Free Hospital visit
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Artist overjoyed to see his art work on hoardings outside Royal Free Hospital building site
PUBLISHED: 07:10 23 November 2018 Harry Taylor Oliver Yu Chan with his painting of Hampstead High Street, which is on a hoarding outside the Royal Free Hospital. Picture: Linda Grove Archant The painter behind the murals outside the Royal Free Hospital’s Pears Building said he is “loves” that his work has found a new audience. Oliver Yu Chan, who has autism, has been paining for twenty years. Living in Swiss Cottage, his paintings of Hampstead High Street, Kentish Town Underground Station and Belsize Park’s Budgens supermarket in the snow now adorn the building site’s hoardings.His work is usually on display in Oliver’s Village Cafe in Belsize Lane, which his family own. Now the 31-year-old’s work is currently being seen by thousands of people a day driving up Rosslyn Hill.“My mom got me into it when I was a child, and I’ve taken it from there really.”His name was put forward by Belsize activist, … [Read more...] about Artist overjoyed to see his art work on hoardings outside Royal Free Hospital building site
Royal Free Hospital buries time capsule to mark the ‘bottoming out’ of the Pears Building
PUBLISHED: 11:45 18 October 2018 | UPDATED: 11:58 18 October 2018 Harry Taylor The Royal Free Charity celebrated the "bottoming out" of the new Pears UCL building on the site by burying a time capsule, to be opened in 100 years. Items inside included a copy of last week's Ham&High newspaper along with artwork by patients who attend the onsite Royal Free School, and personal notes of hope for the next 100 years. Front row from left Sir David Sloman CEO of the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Free School student Anabelle Prin (15) holding artworks, Professor Hans Stauss Head of Clinicl Immunology, student Toby Driskell-Poole (15) holding lid of the time capsule, Chris Burghes CE of the Royal Free Charity, and in uniform, Sarita Workman, specialist sister in immunology research at the Royal Free, puts in a copy of the Ham&High. Picture: Polly Hancock Archant They say today’s newspapers are tomorrow’s chip paper. The Royal Free … [Read more...] about Royal Free Hospital buries time capsule to mark the ‘bottoming out’ of the Pears Building
Backlash in Hampstead over reports Royal Free Hospital plans to sell off Queen Mary’s House for luxury flats
PUBLISHED: 10:43 19 May 2018 | UPDATED: 10:50 19 May 2018 Emily Banks Queen Marys Hospital Archant Hampstead campaigners have hit out at plans by the Royal Free Hospital to sell of Queen Mary’s House in Heath Street to developers to turn into a new high end luxury estate with 162 luxury flats. Queen Marys Hospital Although the hospital has not put the site, currently providing affordable accommodation for key NHS workers, on the open market or published its plans, estate agents told The Guardian that they have been called in to market the site by Whitestone Pond privately to top end developers and interested parties on the quiet. The hospital has set up a password-restricted website to promote the 100-year-old former hospital Queen Mary’s House via a password-restricted website as “Hampstead Garden - a rare opportunity to create one of the most desirable new-build schemes in London.”, The Guardian reports. Janine Griffis who chairs The Hampsead … [Read more...] about Backlash in Hampstead over reports Royal Free Hospital plans to sell off Queen Mary’s House for luxury flats
Royal Free to look for new site for Rowland Hill plaque
PUBLISHED: 14:15 10 May 2018 | UPDATED: 14:15 10 May 2018 Harry Taylor The plaque to revolutionary postal reformer, Sir Rowland Hill, which was previously fixed to the car park outside the Royal Free hospital Archant The Royal Free Charity has said it is looking into a new site for the plaque in honour of a historic Hampstead resident who helped revolutionise the postal system. The memorial to Kidderminster-born Sir Rowland Hill was previously fixed to a wall on the Royal Free car park opposite Hampstead Hill School. The car park has now been torn down to make way for the Pears Building, which is currently being built. However campaigners had raised concerns about what had happened to the plaque, and whether it would be kept as part of the new building. Sir Rowland invented the Penny Post stamp, which helped pave the way for the postal service we have today. A spokeswoman said: “The plaque to Sir Rowland Hill was embedded into the brickwork of the car park and has safely … [Read more...] about Royal Free to look for new site for Rowland Hill plaque