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Published: 03 June 2010
by CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
CAMPAIGNERS have called for greater protection for wildlife after a gosling was killed under the wheels of a suspected hit-and-run cyclist on the Regent...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
LANDLORDS the Crown Estate will push ahead with plans to sell off homes for key workers and low-income households in the heart of Pimlico.
The Crown, one of the...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A PEACE activist has warned of a public backlash after Parliament Square protester Brian Haw was arrested for the second time in six months.
Mr Haw appeared in...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THEIR names evoke the virtues of Arthurian knights, but Olympic mascots Wenlock and Mandeville must wish designers had given them each a famously English stiff...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
COMMUNITY leaders have united behind MP Karen Buck in a call for calm following the “mindless” shooting of a popular electrician.
Daniel Smith, 22,...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
AUDITIONS for busking on the Tube have re-started after a two-year gap.
London Underground (LU) will be holding auditions every Thursday and Friday until...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
STAFF at a Marylebone jewellers were held at gunpoint and forced to help raiders during a terrifying heist, writes Jamie Welham.
Thieves escaped with £...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM and DALLIA ABDEL MONIEM
GIVING a whole new meaning to the expression swinging sixties, a £50,000 pensioners’ playground has opened in Hyde Park.
The...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THREE youngsters have been given the job of getting the “youth voice” heard in proposals to regenerate Church Street.
Fiona Toumazou and...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
IN what is believed to be a London first, Church Street Library will reopen with an area exclusively for teenagers.
The library, near Edgware Road, has set...
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CAN you patent a haircut? It’s hard to imagine how you can claim exclusive rights over the Mohawk, the mullet or the shaved step (not that you’d ever want to be associated with that...
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Published: 28 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
QUINTIN Kynaston School in St John’s Wood has been nominated for a prestigious national teaching award.
Just three years after Jo Shuter was named...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
MOTORCYCLE campaigners have welcomed news that City Hall’s parking chief has quit.
Councillor Danny Chalkley has stood aside in Westminster Council’...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A BUILDING contractor criticised for damaging dozens of gravestones in a 400-year-old burial ground has been given the all-clear to finish the job.
JA Cornish...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
PLANNERS have defied a chorus of criticism to give the go-ahead for a giant memorial in Green Park to thousands of airmen of the Bomber Command who lost their...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by DALLIA M ABDEL MONIEM
PEACE protesters in the Parliament Square camp say they have been told by police to expect eviction ahead a visit by the Queen.
Officers said no...
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PUBLISHED: 21 MAY 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
PRESSURE is mounting for tough action to be taken against train companies who have been accused of creating a serious public health risk in Marylebone....
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Published: 20 May 2010
THE problem with politics is that, if you’re not careful, it can take over your life.
Thankfully, with two teenage daughters, real life is never far away.
And there was...
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Published: 21 May 2010
Great writing is no mystery
WHAT does it take to write great fiction?
A certain iciness of persona, according to Ruth Rendell, who was treating an audience at West End...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A COUNCILLOR of “rare integrity” has been honoured with a memorial in the heart of Soho.
Friends and family of Ian Wilder attended the plaque...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE lawn of the “Actors’ Church”, St Paul’s in Covent Garden, will be transformed into a verdant riverbank for the first of a season of...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
JIMI Hendrix’s former Mayfair home is to be opened up to the public to commemorate the 40th anniversary of his death.
Memorabilia including handwritten...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
THE silver lining of being confined to a hospital bed as a youngster was having an impregnable excuse for not having done your homework.
But these days a...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
HOUSING bosses have promised to replace a plaque that went missing from a Queen’s Park estate weeks after the death of the neighbourhood champion it was...
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Published: 21 May 2010
by JAMIE WELHAM
A FORMER Governor of the Bank of England has donated £50,000 from beyond the grave to help save a Grade I-listed church in Trafalgar Square.
The gift, in...
