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South London incinerator fight goes to the Mayor of London
Sutton Council approved plans for an energy recovery facility to be built in Beddington Protesters are gearing up to take their campaign to block an incinerator from being built to Boris Johnson. Sutton Council gave planning permission for an energy recovery facility (ERF) to be built in Beddington Lane, on Croydon's border, on Wednesday. The plant will burn up to 275,000 ...
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Mass brawl leaves five injured
Nether Street remains cordoned off this morning between Ballards Lane and Crescent Road A "violent and horrific" mass brawl in Finchley Central earlier this morning left five men injured - three of them critically. Between ten and 15 men are believed to have been involved in the altercation outside La Gogu bar, on the corner of Nether Street and Ballards Lane, at 5am. At ...
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NHS commissioning group defends contracts with private companies
Campaigners outside Walthamstow Central before joining Saturday's march An NHS group which allows private companies to bid to provide health services has moved to reassure people that quality will not be sacrificed for cheaper contracts. The Waltham Forest Clinical Commissioning Group (WFCCG) was set up in April as part of a nationwide transformation where primary care trusts were ...
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Arsonist could have started Carshalton garage fire
Firefighters from Sutton and Wallington were called to the incident An arsonist could be responsible for a garage fire in Carshalton last night. Witnesses told firefighters a youth was spotted setting fire to rubbish near a garage which caught fire in Surrey Grove at about 8.20pm. Firefighters from Sutton and Wallington were called to the incident but said neighbours had got the ...
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Pilot scheme wants to turn computer game players into computer game makers
Esther Freeman, Hackjam.it project manager. Teenagers can join a project launching next week to address marginalisation issues around those who don't have proper access to ICT education, equipment and opportunities. The Walthamstow pilot-scheme taking place over two days, beginning May 28, aims to teach teenagers to design and build their own computer games and become producers of ...
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VIDEO Peter Andre visits Sutton for Cancer Diaries
Sallie Lunn, Shella Hossenbux & Peter Andre Peter Andre paid a visit to school children fundraising for a charity close to his heart. As part of his new daytime slot on This Morning, Peter Andre's Cancer Diaries, he went to the independent school, Seaton House, on ...
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Made in Chelseas Jamie Laing talks to Vibe ahead of Bluewater signing
Made in Chelsea's Jamie Laing talks to Vibe ahead of Bluewater signing MADE in Chelsea's Jamie Laing is a busy man and has bags of energy, possibly fuelled by his love of sugary snacks. Inspired by his love of sweet treats, fashion and pretty ladies, the reality star has launched a cookbook under his Candy Kittens brand, which he will sign at WH Smiths in Bluewater from 6pm ...
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Eltham day of fun at Well Hall Pleasaunce
By Mark Chandler ELTHAM's pleasaunce will hold a day full of entertainment nextweekend. The Well Hall attraction holds a mammoth event on June 2 from 10am to 5pm featuring 50 stalls selling local produce, jewellery, books, plants, arts and crafts and bric-a-brac. Organised by the Tudor Barn, Greenwich Council and with support with the Friends of Well Hall Pleasaunce, it will ...
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Bluewater set to expand by a fifth and create thousands of jobs - full reaction
PLANS to expand Bluewater by a fifth and create up to 2,300 jobs have been given the go-ahead - despite strong opposition from Gravesham Council. The local authority fears the ambitious project could put off retailers from signing up to Gravesend's Heritage Quarter, a 120m scheme aimed at bringing much needed jobs, flats and retail space to the town centre. Dartford Council ...
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Bank of England remains divided on stimulus
LONDON -; The Bank of England's policymakers remain divided on whether to provide more stimulus to the flat-lining economy, according to the minutes of their meeting in ...
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Named after 40 years Anonymity order lifted for brutal child killer David McGreavy jailed in 1973
The murderer known as "M" can now be publicly revealed as triple child killer David McGreavy, who impaled the bodies of his victims on railings.McGreavy, now 62, was jailed for life in 1973 for killing the children he was babysitting at a house in Gillam Street, Worcester, and is one of the country's most notorious and longest-serving prisoners.The gagging order was made in ...
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Homelessness despair and confusion amid the night shelter funding crisis
The future for housing-benefit funded emergency night shelters for rough sleepers is precarious. So why are ministers so reluctant to intervene to prevent them ...
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Civil servants are least happy employees in China
Civil servants are the least happy employees in China, research has revealed.A survey of over 9,000 respondents found that civil servants had the lowest level of job satisfaction of the 12 sector categories that were included.According to ...
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Will Nick Clegg still be deputy prime minister at the next election | Poll
a speech insisting the coalition will survive until the 2015 election and that a centre-ground government is what people want, amid fears the Liberal Democrats are being tainted by rows over gay marriage and Europe. Do you think he will survive the ...
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Catholic church says legal aid cuts will harm human trafficking victims
Chris Grayling has been sent a letter signed by senior Catholic officials and charities condemning his proposals for introducing a dual residency test on the grounds that it will harm the most vulnerable who have recently arrived in the United Kingdom.The letter, seen by the Guardian, has been released on the day that lawyers in London stage protests against the Ministry of Justice's ...
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Clegg to Tory MPs stop the games
Nick Clegg will say Tory MPs are 'disappearing into a parliamentary rabbit warren, obsessing over this new tactic or that new trick'. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ...
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Tory right calls on peers to reject gay marriage bill
House of Lords to reject the bill after 133 Tory MPs, including two cabinet ministers, defied David Cameron to vote against the measure.As a Tory grassroots organisation warned of a "civil war in conservatism", prompted in part by the legislation, more than half of the Conservative parliamentary party voted against the bill after one ministerial aide complained of a "sham ...
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Free school proposal for north Kingston approved
The new school will be created at the North Kingston Centre A bid to build a new free school for 180 children in north Kingston has this morning been approved by the Department for Education. Members of the Kingston Educational Trust (KET) - a partnership between Kingston University, Kingston College and Education Kingston - were told early today that their application for a ...
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Pair deny harrassment charges in synagogue sex abuse probe
By Chris Hewett Two men arrested as part of an investigation into sex abuse allegations at an orthodox Jewish synagogue have denied charges of harassment. Shlomo Feldman and Samuel Erlanger were both detained by police probing allegations of sex abuse at the Divrei Chaim Synagogue, in Bridge Lane, Temple Fortune. Detectives arrested the synagogue's rabbi Chaim Halpern in ...
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Swanley woman Dawn Chedd on trial today charged with Bluewater car park death
Claire Bishop died at Bluewater shopping centre. A SWANLEY woman is due to go on trial today accused of causing the death of a shopper at Bluewater. Dawn Chedd, of Cranleigh Drive is charged with causing the death of 71-year-old Claire Bishop by careless or inconsiderate driving. The 50-year-old, who denies the charges, will appear in front of a jury and Judge Charles Byers in ...
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New mayor ‘excited’ about year ahead despite political tension at council meeting
By Bruce Thain Political tension between councillors flared up last night during Harrow Borough Council's annual Mayor making ceremony. Councillor Nana Asante was sworn at a ceremony in at the civic centre yesterday evening, making her Harrow's first Ghanaian Mayor. The member of the new Independent Labour group said: "Thank you all for appointing me mayor. It is ...
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Two people rushed to hospital following Swanley house fire
By Alan Woods TWO people were rushed to hospital after a fire broke out in the airing cupboard of a Swanley home. Firefighters were called to a house in Leechcroft Avenue at 10.27pm last night after the owners of the home escaped from the property and dialled 999. The fire started when a pillow was placed too close to a light in the airing cupboard, which overheated and caught ...
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Mill Hill girl cuts lovely locks for charity
A girl from Mill Hill has shorn her lovely locks to raise money for children who have lost their hair. Beatrice Leviton, nine, cut off ten inches of hair at Kink Hair Salon in Daws Lane on Friday to raise money for the Little Princess Trust, a charity that makes real hair wigs for children who have lost their hair due to cancer. Beatrice said: "I was a little bit scared but ...
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Neighbours evacuated from tower block fire
Firefighters tackle the flames at Bonnington House Dozens of people were evacuated from a tower block in Enfield after a fire broke out last night. Firefighters were called shortly after 10.30pm to Bonnington House in Ayley Croft to reports a blaze had started in flat 98, on one of the upper floors of the building. Paramedics and police also attended the scene where neighbours were ...
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Broken down bus partially blocks main road
By Joe Curtis A broken down bus has partially blocked a busy main road this morning. The bus broke down around 8.50am and has partly blocked Kings Road at its junction with Station Road, Chingford. Traffic delays are growing and drivers are advised to seek other ...
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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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