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Tenants champion and deputy mayor visits Mulberry
Richmond Council's deputy mayor has been raising awareness of a cancer charity based at West Middlesex Hospital after her own experience with the disease. Councillor Lisa Blakemore shared a cuppa, a cake and a chat on May 17, at the Mulberry Centre, to raise money for people who have been affected by cancer. Coun Blakemore, who is also the tenants' champion for the borough, ...
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Michael Portillo visits Ewell for womens rights exhibition
An exhibition examining women's struggle for the vote has attracted national media attention from the likes of politician-turned-journalist Michael Portillo. Dying for the Vote, which opened at Bourne Hall, in Spring Street, Ewell, last Tuesday, marks the centenary of the death of suffragette Emily Davison, killed when she ran out in front of the King's horse at the Epsom Derby in ...
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Deen City Farm farm hosts bee friendly fun in bid to boost population
A 'bee-friendly' day of action took place on Sunday to help boost the dwindling population of bumble bees. Friends of the Earth hosted the event as part of the 'Bee-Cause' campaign at Deen City Farm with visitors planting bee-friendly wildflower seeds and learning about why the number of bees is in decline. Loss of habitat is one of the main causes for the decline ...
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Haikus written by seven-year-olds go on show at Bentalls
(left to right) Katherine Hall, Bentalls, Stuart Bird, writer in residence at Surbiton High School, Erin Crombie, 7, Nancy Bucke, 9, and Sam Wakefield, 8 displaying their haikus Haiku poems written by children went on display at Bentalls this week Children between the ages of 7 and 10 have been exploring Japanese short poems over the last few months as part of 'Haiku ...
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Drop in police numbers has not resulted in a worse service says Boris ally
Drop in police numbers "has not resulted in a worse service" says Boris ally Losing the equivalent of 44 full-time police officers over three years has not resulted in a worse service, Conservative London Assembly member Tony Arbour has said. And he said the perception that there were fewer police on the street was not necessarily correct. The AM for South West London, ...
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Elmbridge Community Hub opens to great fanfare
Voluntary groups and councillors toasted the new Elmbridge Community Hub at its official opening this week. Elmbridge mayor Councillor Mike Bennison unveiled the hub as well as a plaque at the old Walton library site on Monday. The 800,000 refurbished building will now house voluntary groups including Walton, Weybridge and Hersham Citizens Advice Bureau, the Counselling Partnership, ...
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PICTURES Cheam goes barking mad for canine fashion
How much is that doggy outfit in the window? The dogs of Cheam can now dress as well as their owners after women's clothes ...
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Guardian Program Seeks Volunteers
Volunteer guardians help represent the best interest of children who are involved in court proceedings.For more information about the Guardian ad Litem program, call Diane Schmelz at ...
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Epsom sight loss charity wins silver at Chelsea Flower Show
Garden designer Darren Hawkes in the SeeAbility Garden. A garden themed around sight loss has won a medal at the Chelsea Flower Show. Epsom eye care charity SeeAbility won the silver gilt medal for its garden, which included landscaping and plants to represent four sight conditions. On Monday the charity's patron the Duchess of Gloucester visited the award-winning garden. ...
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Free guided walks through Common and Wimbledon Park on bank holiday weekend
Walkers can enjoy the beauty of Wimbledon Common on Bank Holiday Monday Bank holiday revellers can enjoy London with a spring in their step this weekend with a free guided walk. Merton residents can take advantage of Walk England and Transport for London's Spring into Summer weekend offering 35 free walks with an expert guide to help Londoners discover the wealth of hidden gems ...
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Cheam Rotary holds annual village fair
Cheam Village Fair is organised by Cheam Rotary Club A fair including birds of prey and go-karting will take place on bank holiday Monday. Cheam Village fair, which first started in 1977 in celebration of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, is organised by Cheam Rotary Club. Thousands of people are expected to attend the event which will be held in Cheam Recreation Ground from ...
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PICTURES Riverside Animal Centre in Beddington opens its doors
Summer Chapman says hello to Daisy the fox An animal centre held an open day to raise vital funds for new enclosures and vets bills. The Riverside Animal Centre in Beddington Park invited people to come along and meet their residents including Bonnie the badger, Daisy the fox and a hedgehog on Sunday, May ...
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Business award for innovative new invoicing system
Mehrdad Modarres at The Landmark Hotel on Saturday A food hygiene worker has won a national business award which recognises employees who have made successful changes to a company. Mehrdad Modarres, of Hatfield Crescent, Wimbledon is a financial controller for Food Alert, who specialise in food hygiene and health and safety solutions for the catering industry. He won the Finance ...
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Woolwich killing meat cleaver knife and jihadist claims filmed on mobile
Link to video: Woolwich: suspect believed to be involved in attack A man suspected of staging a terrorist attack that left a British soldier dead near a military barracks ...
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School notices North Allegheny senior travelin ot England for Linguistics Olympiad
a senior at North Allegheny Senior High School, will represent the United States as a member of the second North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad team in Manchester, ...
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England Eye Series Win Before Attention Turns to Ashes
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Soldier beheaded in street as two shot in suspected terrorist attack outside Woolwich barracks
Terror in Woolwich: Britain 'will not buckle' in the face of terrorist attacks, says David Cameron after soldier is murdered in the ...
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National Briefing | New England Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor to Resign
The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, Timothy P. Murray, said on Wednesday that he would resign on June 2, a move that surprised the political establishment there. Mr. Murray, who has played a prominent role in the administration of Gov. Deval Patrick since 2007, was once considered likely to try to succeed his boss, but his public image suffered from an early-morning accident in 2011 in ...
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Eyewitness gives extraordinary account of her confrontation with Woolwich attackers
A passer by has given a shocking first hand account of her encounter with the two men who allegedly murdered a soldier in Woolwich ...
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Ed Miliband a googly for tax avoiders | Editorial
Ed Miliband is pretty clear about how he would like to distinguish the Labour party he leads from the Labour party that went before. He aims to be readier than Blair and Brown to challenge the powerful in general, and the economically mighty in particular.Over three years, we've seen flashes of both halves of that - in, for example, his determination to take Wapping to task over phone ...
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Austerity IMF 1 Osborne 0 | Editorial
George Osborne that the UK remains a "long way from recovery"; that "persistent slow growth could permanently damage medium-term growth prospects"; that, six years on from the collapse of Northern Rock, British banks are still not back to "healthy functionality"; and that the centrepiece of the chancellor's last budget - the help-to-buy scheme aimed at ...
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Ministers ordered bugging of King Edward VIIIs phones records reveal
Ministers ordered the bugging of Edward VIII's telephones in Buckingham Palace and in his Windsor retreat at the height of the 1936 abdication crisis, hitherto secret papers reveal.The extraordinary move, reflecting a growing and deep distrust between the king and his ministers, is disclosed in a unique cache of intelligence files hidden until now in a basement at the Cabinet Office in the ...
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Government accused of using anti-GP rhetoric to mask its own failings
Doctors ' leaders and the health secretary are on a collision course over claims the government is using "anti-GP rhetoric" to mask its own failure to effectively reform ...
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Police and crime commissioners budgets soaring say MPs
police authorities they were elected to replace last November, according to parliamentary research.The Commons home affairs select committee says six months after their election, 17 out of the 41 PCCs have set budgets higher than the police authorities they replaced. The largest increase so far is a rise of 133% in Hampshire where the police authority budget of 1.5m last year has risen to 3.5m ...
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US pushes Europe to amend arms embargo on Syrian rebels
John Kerry , the US secretary of state, has been urging the EU to reach consensus on a change that would allow weapons to be delivered to the rebels - though without any decision to do so at this stage.Diplomatic sources said on Wednesday that Britain now has the support of France, Italy and Spain, while Germany is neutral. But Austria, Finland, Sweden and the Czech Republic are still opposed. ...
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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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