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Woman attacked with knife in unusually violent mugging
By Chris Hewett A woman in her fifties had her hand slashed with a knife by a young mugger who snatched her bag in an underpass. The victim was attacked in a cut-through which passes under the railway tracks between Westbrook Crescent and Cromer Road, New Barnet. She was approached from behind at about 1.40pm on Saturday by a man described as aged 19 or 20 who pushed her to the ...
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Homes plan for ex-sports ground in Greenhithe rejected
By Sam Christie PLANS to build up to 40 homes on a former sports ground in Greenhithe have been rejected. The developer was hoping to gain outline planning permission to build on the former Empire Sports Ground but keep the existing Empire Bowls Club. Dartford Council refused the application for the land south of Knockhall Road during a meeting on Thursday, May 16. Concerns ...
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Petts Wood FC coach charged following Millwall FA Cup violence
By Alan Woods A YOUTH football coach at Petts Wood FC has been charged after violence broke out among Millwall fans during an FA Cup semi-final. Jordan Newbery, 22, of Cheyne Close in Locksbottom, is one of 10 men who answered bail last week and was charged with violent disorder. He is the coach of the Petts Wood FC Under 10 Jackdaws. John Kenny, 38, of Tyrrell Avenue in ...
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An edible road of fruit trees has blossomed in Forest Hill
AN 'EDIBLE road' of fruit trees sprang up in Forest Hill over the weekend in a bid to encourage home-grown fruit and veg. There will be 75 potted apple, pear, plum and cherry trees dotted along streets such as Dartmouth Road and London Road for the next three weeks. The launch event on Saturday (May 18) was to promote home growing in small spaces as part of alternative garden ...
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JLS star Marvin becomes a father with The Saturdays Rochelle
JLS star Marvin becomes a father with The Saturdays' Rochelle WOOLWICH JLS star Marvin Humes has become a father. His wife, The Saturdays singer Rochelle Humes, gave birth to a baby daughter called Alaia-Mai this morning. Marvin, who trained with D&B School of Performing Arts in Downham, announced the new arrival on Twitter. He said: "Mum is doing great & baby ...
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Global company chief executive pitches in at estate clear-up
Tom Monahan and Helen Walker More than 300 employees from international company CEB closed their offices on Friday to help restore the ponds on a housing estate. CEB partnered with volunteering charity TimeBank to aid the conservation project on the Edgecombe Hall Estate, Southfields after it was damaged by anti-social behaviour. The company's annual Global Volunteering Day ...
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Update Armed robbery at Gravesend newsagents
Police outside Tasnim General Store in Gravesend. Pic taken by @joanneroberts77 A SHOP worker was threatened at knife point by a gang of masked raiders in Gravesend this morning. Four black men, wearing black clothing and with nets covering their faces, went into Tasnim General Store in Bath Street at about 9am. They pushed the victim out of sight of CCTV and forcing him to hand ...
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Sutton Council to fight Government inquiry into town centre eyesore
Sutherland House in Brighton Road The council is going to fight a government inquiry into a Sutton town centre eyesore. Criterion Capital, the developers of Sutherland House in Brighton Road, has launched an appeal against the council over the stalled ...
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Waltham Forest College open evening
, Reporter Prospective students can come and see what Waltham Forest College has to offer during their open evening on Thursday May 23. Visitors can find out about the professional skills needed to work in different industries, meet lecturers and talk to current students, take a tour of the college, see examples of students' work and get help finding the right course. ...
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Woolwich Common after London 2012 shooting events like a bomb site
NINE months have passed since London 2012 shooting events finished at Woolwich Common. And yet the site remains reminiscent of "a bomb site" rather than one of Greenwich borough's most treasured open spaces. The land was meant to be returned to pre-Games glory in March this year but residents can expect around another 12 months of work. Olympic bosses have come ...
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Fashion boss stole tax from staff
News A clothing chain boss who pocketed tax deducted from his staff's wages has been jailed. Kemal Gediz, of Latchingdon Court in Forest Road, Walthamstow, failed to pay a VAT bill for his firm Punkyfish and stole 68,000 in tax and national insurance contributions. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators discovered the 49-year-old deliberately ...
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Chelsea Flower Show 2013 Queen and Royal family visit
Dressed in a lilac coat, The Queen was accompanied by various members of the Royal family, including the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Earl and Countess of Wessex, Prince Harry and Princess Beatrice as she toured the ...
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Multinational tax avoiders had better beware the unappreciative taxpayer | Simon Bowers
tax professionals, the president of the CBI clearly feels a growing sense of frustration at the direction of the public debate over multinationals and their tax ...
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BREAKING Civil partnerships face axe as price of ensuring David Camerons gay marriage plans become law
Civil partnerships could be abolished as the price of ensuring David Cameron's plans to legalise gay marriage become law, it emerged last ...
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Chelsea Flower Show A blooming century lit up by tweed and Pimm’s
Joanna Lumley, the Queen and Ringo Starr were among the Great British institutions to wish a happy 100th birthday to another one - the Chelsea Flower ...
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Briton Julian Stevenson under formal investigation in Lyon over murder of own children
A divorced British father with a history of drunkenness and domestic violence was formally accused of the murder of his two children, who were found with their throats cut in his apartment in southern ...
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Attacks from dissident republicans likely during G8 summit
The head of the policing operation for next month's G8 summit said that attacks from dissident republicans were likely to continue in Northern Ireland despite thousands of extra police officers being brought ...
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Pregnant woman begs court to let her abort baby
A pregnant woman suffering from "severe" mental health problems has made an impassioned plea to a High Court judge, asking that she be granted an ...
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City’s Rodwell gets England call up
London - Manchester City midfielder Jack Rodwell was called up to the England squad on Monday for their friendlies against Ireland and Brazil despite playing in only 11 league games all ...
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Propaganda war who will win Scottish teenage hearts and minds
Scottish independence . For Euan the answer is a clear "yes" because he believes it will be his best guarantee of a free university education. Rosie is a "no". She says: "We should be arguing that what we think is better for the future of young people ...
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Confused about the national curriculum Here have a pre-loaded tablet
"disapplied" the national curriculum from September 2013, except for English, maths and science in some primary years. Schools should still teach all subjects named in the current curriculum, but it will be up to each teacher to decide what content to include. The logic is that removing the old curriculum for a year gives teachers a chance to prepare for the new curriculum, starting in ...
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The swivel-eyed the glass-eyed and the cross-eyed | Simon Hoggart
No sign of David Cameron in the Commons chamber. Perhaps he was lying in a darkened room, or consulting a hermit on top of a Himalayan mountain. His party appears to be disintegrating into endless factions beneath him. Loonies versus sort-of sane. Swivel-eyed against glass eyed.Herding cats? By comparison, a sackful of kittens would be as easy to marshal as the Brigade of Guards. If they were ...
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Legal aid cuts will lead to state-sponsored miscarriages of justice | Sadiq Khan
In these straitened times, the legal system is not exempt from the need to find savings, but we all have a duty to achieve that in ways that do not put at risk the integrity of our justice system. Because it involves ...
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MPs office searched in rape inquiry
House of Commons Nigel Evans have searched his parliamentary offices, it has emerged.Lancashire police officers entered parliament on Sunday to examine rooms occupied by Evans, 55, and his staff. He was arrested on 4 May after claims that he raped one man and sexually assaulted another between 2009 and 2013 - accusations he said were "completely false". A third man has come forward ...
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Rodwell called up by England
Manchester City's Jack Rodwell has been called up by England for the international matches against Republic of Ireland and Brazil.The 22-year-old midfielder was added to his country's squad by manager Roy Hodgson on Monday as a potential replacement for Tom ...
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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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