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Football tournament in memory of musician
Anthony 'Diktion' Bayele There will be football and face painting in Mill Hill tomorrow in memory of a budding musician. Aspiring musician and keen footballer Anthony 'Diktion' Bayele, 22, who lived in Mill Hill and Finchley, died suddenly in November days before releasing his second EP. To celebrate what would have been Mr Bayele's 23rd birthday, his ...
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Boy 10 injured in Kingston car crash
, Reporter A 10-year-old boy has been injured in a car crash in Kingston. The accident happened on Fairfield South, when two cars collided at 3.30pm today. The boy was treated for minor head injuries and taken to Kingston Hospital as a ...
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Thousands of Muslims pray for murdered soldier Lee Rigby
Police stood guard outside the mosque to ensure the prayers were not disturbed Five thousand Muslims gathered at Morden mosque this afternoon to condemn the Woolwich terror attack. Worshippers from the Ahmadiyya Muslim community congregated at the Baitul Futuh Mosque, in London Road, to offer prayers to Drummer Lee Rigby who was murdered on the streets of south London in broad daylight ...
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Flowers for murdered soldier outside Sutton TA base
Mourners have been paying their respects to the soldier murdered in Woolwich by laying flowers outside a local Territorial Army base. Several bunches of flowers in memory of killed soldier Drummer Lee Rigby, who was attacked and killed in Woolwich on Wednesday, have been laid outside the Territorial Army base in Stonecot Hill and other mourners have been urged to do the same. The ...
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Joanna Lumley and Ringo Starr full of praise for gardeners
Stars Joanna Lumley and Ringo Starr were full of praise for Enfield's gardeners at this year's Chelsea Flower Show. Seasoned professionals and novices from Capel Manor College and Gardens in Bullsmoor Lane, Enfield, have all walked away with a medal at the annual event. Capel Manor took the Silver Gilt Flora in the RHS Environment section, while garden design students won ...
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Man accused of using dog in sex attack on woman
Anthony Foster will stand trial at Croydon Crown Court A man accused of nine sex offences including forcing his dog to assault a woman, will stand trial in July. Anthony Foster of St James' Park, Croydon, pleaded not guilty to the offences which allegedly took place at a hairdressers between March 31 and May 1, last year. The 35-year-old who appeared at Croydon Crown Court, is ...
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Student wins prize for research project
Chantelle Bacchus A university student has beaten 200 rivals to win a prize for her research project. Chantelle Bacchus, 21, from Chingford, won the British Conference of Undergraduate Research award for her poster at the conference in Plymouth last week. It described her project on the possibility of a people to choose its own government while working while working within ...
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Deptford brain injury charity throws Mad Hatters Tea party
A DEPTFORD-based brain injury association held a Mad Hatters' tea party as part of Brain Injury Week. Clients and staff at Headway dressed up for the Alice in Wonderland-themed party as part of a campaign to raise awareness of brain injuries and promote cycle helmet usage. There was also baking, hat-making and decorating and games at the event in Crook Log Leisure Centre, in ...
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Webber to captain England against Barbarians
Bath hooker Rob Webber will captain England in Sunday's non-cap international against the Barbarians at Twickenham. Gloucester-bound flanker Matt Kvesic and London Irish wing Marland Yarde will both make their first senior appearances in an England shirt. Wasps wing Christian Wade, voted the players' player of the season on Wednesday night, starts on the right wing and is the only ...
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Yarde ecstatic over England chance
London Irish winger Marland Yarde has admitted he is "ecstatic" to get the chance to play for England so early in his career. Despite early season struggles for Irish, Yarde went on to impress by scoring seven tries as the Exiles responded to a relegation battle by finishing in 9th place.Part of a rapid backline this Sunday against the Barbarians alongside Christian Wade, Jonathan ...
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Are converts more likely to be extremists than other Muslims | Leon Moosavi
Greenwich Islamic Centre, Woolwich: 'Not all extremist converts are radicalised by Islam, but by a previous lifestyle that lingers into their post-conversion life.' Photograph: Warren King / Rex ...
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Government should reopen talks on press regulation says Alan Rusbridger
Alan Rusbridger: said the government should hold talks with the political parties, the newspaper industry and victims of press intrusion. Photograph: David Levene for the ...
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G4S contract to run sexual assault referral centres damned
G4S , the controversial private security company, is to run services providing medical examinations and counselling for victims of rape and sexual assault in the West Midlands.The company has been awarded a three-year contract to take over two sexual assault referral centres (Sarcs) in Birmingham and Walsall. The national network of 33 centres across England which have developed over the past ...
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Fire in British Airways flight from Heathrow shuts down both its runways
LONDON: Air traffic in one of the world's busiest airports - Heathrow was completely thrown into chaos after a flight that took off for Oslo made a quick U-turn back following an engine fire. As many as 75 passengers had a close shave when a British Airways jet was forced to perform an emergency landing at Heathrow with smoke and flames pouring out from one of its engines. Eye-witnesses saw ...
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High Court calls for new system to investigate claims of abuse by British soldiers on Iraqis
Terri Judd is a reporter with The Independent, who writes regularly on defence issues, having repeatedly embedded with British troops in Iraq and ...
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Pioneering method of treating Alzheimer’s discredited by scientists
A drug hailed as a pioneering method of treating Alzheimer's has been discredited by scientists, after experts were unable to replicate its results this ...
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Burning bottle thrown at mosque in Bletchley
Thames Valley Police said a bottle containing flammable liquid was set alight and thrown on to the roof of the Zainabia Islamic Centre, commonly known as the Granby Mosque, in Bletchley at about 11.30pm last night.The attack comes in the wake of the brutal murder of soldier Lee Rigby outside Woolwich Barracks in south-east London.Members of the mosque in Peverel Drive quickly extinguished the ...
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Matthew Tvrdon admits running down and killing mother-of-three Karina Menzies during hit-and-run rampage in Cardiff
Matthew Tvrdon, 32, was accused of deliberately targeting parents and young children with a white Iveco van in the Ely and Leckwith areas of Cardiff on October 19.As well as the manslaughter charge, which was on the grounds of diminished responsibility, the van driver admitted seven counts of attempted murder, and other lesser charges, but denied seven other counts of attempted murder.The Crown ...
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Sex shop chain in Soho wins landmark legal battle against Westminster Council over license fees
A sex shop chain in Soho has won a major victory against license fees charged by Westminster City Council, in a landmark decision that the council believe could "open the flood gates for illegal ...
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Prince William welcomes Uefa as Champions League final nears - video
Football Association president Prince William speaks to Uefa representatives and predicts a Bayern Munich 2-0 win in the Champions League at Wembley on Saturday. Meanwhile, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund players look forward to the final, with Bayern especially keen to win after losing in the final twice in the last three ...
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Nigel Farage bombed in Edinburgh – what does that really tell us about Scottish antipathy to the English | Ian Jack
struggling with his student opponents in an Edinburgh street recently. They see Farage as a racist who should go back to England. Farage sees them as fascists who represent the ugly side of Scottish nationalism. On the one hand, the students' antagonism towards Farage might be highly specific, and no more characteristic of a general tendency than the football chant "Bobby Moore, ...
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Croatian president urges Britain to remain in the EU
Croatia's president, right, with David Cameron during a visit to London. Ivo Josipovic says the UK has an important economy. Photograph: Alastair ...
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Kate Beams in Sunny Yellow at a Palace Garden Party While “Ginger Queen” Prince Harry Goes Bowling
The Duchess of Cambridge tried her best to look summery in a sunshine-yellow Emilia Wickstead coat (despite the pending precipitation that had her in-laws, Prince Charles and Camilla, clutching their Fulton umbrellas) at Buckingham Palace's huge annual garden party on Wednesday. Attending sans William for the second year in a row, Kate was joined by 8,000 members of the public ...
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Townsend and Shaw out of England party
Winger Andros Townsend and left-back Luke Shaw have been replaced in the England squad for next month's finals by uncapped Nathan Redmond and Jack ...
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Will Dannys musical win Britains Got Talent
on a Sunday night, seeing something unusual is pretty much par for the course. Last year's performing dog winner aside, on any one night you might get a donkey 'painting' with the brush held in his mouth, a man in a tinfoil balaclava or a woman wearing a bra made out of a paper cut-out of Simon Cowell heads. But this Sunday evening will see a first on the not-always talent ...
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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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