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UPDATE Travellers move from Mitcham Common to Three Kings Piece
Travellers set up camp on Monday in Mitcham Common after breaking through a barrier A group of travellers who broke through barriers to set up camp on Mitcham Common have moved on to another public green space in the area. The encampment, made up of 14 caravans and about seven further ...
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Zippos Circus bring their globe of death to Beddington Park
A terrifying globe of death, people flying through the sky and hilarious clowns are just some of the spectacles at this year's Zippo's Circus. The famous big top is in Beddington Park for six days exhibiting their new show for ...
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Second newly approved free school announces details
, Reporter Another free school set to open in the borough next year has announced details of its plans and services. The new school, to be called Oasis Academy Walthamstow, was approved today along with three others in the borough when a wave of 102 new free schools had approval announced by Education Secretary Michael Gove. The group who submitted the bid, Oasis Community Learning, ...
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Man arrested as part of people smuggling investigation
News A man has been arrested as part of a pan-European operation targeting people smuggling gangs. The 51-year-old Sri Lankan man was arrested at an address in Rayners Lane, Harrow, by police officers and immigration officers from the Home Office this morning. Simultaneous raids took place at addresses in London, Luton, Essex and also in France and Germany. Eleven people have ...
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Grandfather hits out at string of failures at Barnet Hospital
Raymond Hague A grandfather who is one of many waiting more than a year for an urgent operation has hit out at health chiefs for what he calls a "string of failures". Despite doctors assuring Raymond Hague, of Stratfield Road, Borehamwood, there was an 18-week waiting period to have his shoulder rebuilt, he has since been told it could take over a year to have the surgery at ...
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Photographer hopes to win Art Fund prize with William Morris Gallery picture
Meet the Man by Tony Cullinane A photographer whose picture has made the shortlist for an Art Fund prize hopes people will vote to help him win it. Tony Cullinane, of Pole Hill Road in Chingford, had his snap of a man walking into an exhibition at the William Morris Gallery picked ahead of nearly 1,500 others to stand a chance of winning the Museum of the Year Photography ...
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Two arrested over mass brawl that left five injured
Two men have been arrested in connection with a mass brawl in Finchley Central this morning that left five people in hospital. Between ten and 15 men were involved in the altercation outside La Gogu bar, at the corner of Nether Street and Ballards Lane, at 5am. Five men were taken to hospital following the fight, including two aged 27 and 25 who had suffered what police described as ...
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Walthamstow Academy bosses to open new primary free school
, Reporter The group who operate Walthamstow Academy will now be able to open a new primary free school in Walthamstow following an approval announcement from the Department of Education earlier today. United Learning, who operate the secondary academy which opened in 2006, were today successful in their bid for the school to open in September 2014. The new co-educational school ...
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Barnet Clinical Commissioning Group hosts public meeting
, Reporter People in Barnet are being invited to meet the GPs in charge of providing NHS services in Barnet. During the public meeting, which will take place next Thursday at St. Paul's Centre in Long Lane at 11.00am, GPs on Barnet's Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) will be on hand to answer questions about the new body and hear the views of members of the public on how it ...
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New cabinet will save taxpayers money says leader
By Bruce Thain Harrow Council's leader says his new smaller cabinet will save taxpayers money in allowances. Councillor Thaya Idaikkadar made his comments following the appointment of his new cabinet last week, which will have five portfolio holders whereas previously there had been eight. He said: "Obviously with fewer cabinet members we will be saving the taxpayer ...
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The Beatles lyrics manuscripts and other Fab Four rarities donated to British Library under new scheme
The British Library has become the first institution to benefit from the Government's new "lifetime giving" scheme after receiving manuscripts of the lyrics to The Beatles' hit songs "Strawberry Fields Forever", "She Said She Said" and "In My Life", handwritten by John ...
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Fitness-for-work tests unfair on people with mental health problems court says
The judge ruled that the Department for Work and Pensions had breached its duties to make 'reasonable adjustments' under the Equality Act to ensure that people with mental health problems were treated fairly. Photograph: Toby ...
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Scotland warned independence could cost billions in renewable subsidies
renewable energy projects if it voted for independence, putting its green energy revolution at risk.Davey told a renewable energy conference in Aberdeen that more than one-third of the UK's subsidies for wind, wave and tidal projects - currently 1.4bn a year - was spent in Scotland. That was worth 530m, even though only 9% of all UK electricity sales were in Scotland.The energy secretary ...
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Breast cancer survivor completes 250-mile journey from Blackpool to London – on a mobility scooter
It started out as a joke. But having ridden her mobility scooter from her home in Thornton-Cleveleys, Lancashire, across the misty Peak District, through the Midlands and due south with the finishing line in London a few days away, breast cancer survivor Tracey Vinyard is having the last laugh as she comes to the end of her unique 250-mile charity ...
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April Jones trial Accused Mark Bridger admits military past lies
The former slaughterhouse worker accused of abducting and murdering schoolgirl April Jones in a "sexually motivated" attack today admitted to a jury that he lied about having a military ...
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Ed Miliband warns Google Id make you pay more tax
The Labour leader was addressing company executives, including Eric Schmidt, at Google's "big tent" technology conference. His speech was uncomfortable listening for the Google delegates whose company motto is "don't be evil".Mr Miliband warned executives that a future Labour government would take a far tougher unilateral line against the company if it continues to ...
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Nick Clegg criticises Westminster schools internships auction
Nick Clegg has backed complaints about a prestigious private school's auction of exclusive work experience placements for its students.A group of MPs have written to participants ...
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How to spot a swivel-eyed loon
Plumage is a combination of blue, grey and very white, with some examples of the species beginning to sport purple and yellow rosettes with the approach of spring 2015. Not to be confused with the common loon, which is common, or with the great toff tit, which is blue with a liberal splash of red, and a bright yellow ...
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When culture is treated as commodity no wonder its temples are sold off | Owen Hatherley
public speech as culture secretary last month to insist that funding for the arts will have to be justified by returns. If, in her words, culture is a commodity, albeit a "commodity worth buying into", then what happens to culture that doesn't pay "healthy dividends", as she delicately puts it?As luck would have it, a test for the policy comes with the mooted closure of ...
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States in scramble to attract Prince Harry when he visits Australia for Navy Fleet Review
A FIERCE tug-of-war has erupted between the army and the governments of NSW, ACT and the Northern Territory for a piece of royal action when Prince Harry visits Australia in October. The four-way tussle to lure the playboy prince is centered around the third in line to the British throne visiting Sydney on October 3 as a guest of the Navy to take the Royal Salute during the Royal Australian ...
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Severe Weather Possible from Tenn. Valley to New England
Tropical Cyclone Tornadoes: A Review of Knowledge in Research and Prediction Published in Electronic J. Severe Storms Meteor. Garner, J.M., ...
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AE units on a cliff edge so dont shut St Heliers says council leader
Sutton Council leader, Councillor Ruth Dombey The leader of Sutton Council has renewed her call to abandon proposals to shut St Helier's A&E, after NHS leaders warn A&E units are on a cliff edge. It comes after NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar warned A&E pressures are growing and if it continues to do so the workload will become impossible to deal with. ...
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Four new free schools approved in Waltham Forest
, Reporter Four new free schools were approved for the borough today in a wave of announcements by Education Secretary Michael Gove. The 102 newly announced schools are set to open in 2014 and beyond, delivering around 50,000 new school places across the country. Two of the schools in the borough are to be secondary schools, one primary and one for students aged 16-19. DV8 ...
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Teenagers spend day in life of prisoner
Teenagers got a taste of life behind bars as part of a hard-hitting project to deter young people from crime. Around 60 pupils from Yavneh CollegE and Hertswood Academy, both in Borehamwood and Mount Grace Academy, in Potters Bar, took part in the Prison Me! No Way! scheme. They came face-to-face with Tony, a convict who has been given a life sentence for murder and heard his own ...
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VIDEO Residents have their say on plans to downgrade Epsom Hospital
By Omar Oakes Last week's controversial decision by GPs to not take a decision about the future of Epsom Hospital sparked outrage among the hundreds of residents who attended the public meeting. Surrey Downs Clinical Commissioning Group told the meeting, at Epsom Downs Racecourse on May 17, that three of its members will ...
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London bike sharing a success
London in July of 2010 became one of over 44 cities in the world to introduce an aspect of communal consumerism into its public transport system with the implementation of a bike-sharing network and just ten weeks later had recorded over 1 million trips taken, proving the initiative to be feasible and sustainable.
Bike-sharing has been around since as early as the 1960s when the first community bike-sharing scheme was introduced in the Netherlands, but it lacked formal sharing systems and was overly-reliant on the good nature of the public, leading to mass theft, which ultimately destroyed the system. Read more
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