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Homeless and vulnerable helped by Painshill walk
Transform: The group stepped out for homelessness A charity walk in Painshill raised 500 to support homeless and vulnerable people in Surrey. About 100 people participated in the "step out for homelessness" walk on May 12 in aid of Transform Housing and Support. The charity's chief executive Paul Mitchell said: "I would like to thank everyone who came along on ...
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Amateur actor writes horror novel about a carnivorous boar
Author Robert Bennett in India A boxing coach and amateur actor has written a horror novel. Robert Bennett, from Sutton, has a passion for horror - 13 of his books are in the genre - and now has 15 books available on ...
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Childrens centre shake-up on the cards
, Chief Reporter Changes to the way children's centres are run in Kingston are being sent out to the public for consideration. Kingston Council is proposing a new "hub and spoke" model for its 10 centres across the borough, in a bid to keep the facilities open in the face of funding cuts. It would see the centres divided into four localities - South of the Borough, ...
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Kingston in Bloom competition back on
Kingston in Bloom competition back on Kingston in Bloom is back, a year after the Surrey Comet and supporters kept it alive following council cuts. Tolworth resident Sarah Partridge-Finucane, who runs a publishing firm, will run the competition this year. The competition has six categories: best front garden, best blooming pub, best community space or street, best public building and ...
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Council launches new scheme to give extra help to troubled families
(From left to right) Sutton Council Chief Executive Niall Bolger, Leader of Sutton Council, Cllr Ruth Dombey, Senior Advisor at Troubled Families Team, Gill Strachan MBE , Robert McCulloch-Graham at the launch of Sutton's Families Matter ser Families who are involved with crime or do not send their children to school will get more support under a new scheme. Sutton Council is to ...
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Music hall tradition and celebration of British spirit at the Rose Theatre
Musical tradition and celebration of British spirit at the Rose Theatre Two special matinee shows celebrating Britain and its rich wartime heritage will be coming to the Rose Theatre at the end of this month. We'll Meet Again, which has been running for more than 15 years and still manages to grab an audience every time, will be bringing back to life themes of camaraderie, austerity ...
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Will Prince William be in the delivery room with Kate
This 4,800-sq.-ft.home is the grand prize in the lottery that benefits the VGH Burn Fund. Numerous fireplaces, sumptuous finishing and all the extras, such as a wine fridge and theatre room, complete ...
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Philip Hammond breaks ranks on gay marriage
Philip Hammond, the Defence Secretary, pictured, broke cabinet ranks to suggest that there was "real sense of anger" among voters over the legislation, currently going through Parliament, to allow gay weddings. He said there was no great demand in the country for change and criticised the amount of parliamentary time devoted to the issue. "I have just never felt that this is what ...
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Tory activists are mad swivel-eyed loons says Cameron ally
The publication of remarks made by a senior Tory about 'mad, swivel-eyed loons' is an embarassment for David Cameron. Photograph: Brendan ...
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Bedroom tax prompts surge in pleas for council aid
bedroom tax ".More than 25,000 people applied for discretionary housing payments (DHP) to help cover their rent in April, compared with 5,700 in the same month last year, according to an analysis of 51 councils by the Independent.The government has substantially increased DHP funding for local authorities to help those most affected by the withdrawal of what ministers call the "spare ...
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Anderson bowls England back into first Test
England James Anderson took his 300th Test wicket and then ended a bold counter-attack by New Zealand's Ross Taylor as England fought back in the first Test at Lord's.The two players lit up a Lord's bathed in artificial floodlight to counter the overhead gloom of Friday's second day, which ended with New Zealand 4 for 153 in reply to England's first innings 232 - a ...
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Notes from a small island Is Sealand an independent micronation or an illegal fortress
We embarked from the Thames Estuary in the dead of night. This, I was assured, was in order to catch the tide, but it gave our journey a whiff of mystery. Soon we were swathed in fog, as seagulls rose from the surface of the water, ghostly in the light cast by our 45ft fishing boat, the Charlotte Joan.Four-and-a-half hours after we left, looming out of the darkness, there it was: the Independent ...
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Alexander Litvinenko widow accuses William Hague of sabotaging inquest
David Cameron , accusing them of sabotaging the inquest into her husband's murder and hiding the Russian state's role in his death.Marina Litvinenko said she was "utterly dismayed" ...
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England given boost with Chelsea willing to release trio from US tour
Chelsea's Frank Lampard celebrates winning the Europa League in Amsterdam and could captain England against the Republic of Ireland at Wembley. Photograph: Imago / Barcroft ...
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Alex McCarthy I never thought Id end season being picked for England
'I'm looking forward to the summer even more now,' says Alex McCarthy after his call-up to the England squad for the summer friendlies. Photograph: Alan Walter/Action ...
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Divided Europe veers between urgent growth and bleak austerity
Angela Merkel 's pro-austerity policies soon after becoming president in May last year, blamed the tough cutbacks regime imposed on troubled economies for much of Europe's economic problems. "What is hitting Europe is a recession provoked by the austerity policy," Hollande said at a Paris news conference. The president was especially keen to pin the blame on European ...
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Garden Roses Lavender Cocktails and Prince Harry Inside London’s Chelsea Flower Show
Replay It's officially in its 100th year--formally established in 2013--and yet the Royal Horticultural Society's Chelsea Flower Show, a fixture of the English social calendar, is as hot as ever. The sold-out ...
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Emotional moment as Englands James Anderson reaches 300-wicket landmark
New Zealand at Lord's on Friday. Kiwi opener Peter Fulton was Anderson's 300th wicket - making him only the fourth Englishman to reach the landmark alongside Fred Trueman, Bob Willis and Ian Botham. When Anderson's friend Graeme Swann held on to the catch low at second slip to complete Fulton's dismissal, New Zealand were seven for two on the second day of the first Test. ...
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The next coalition Why Ed Miliband needs to get Nick Cleggs number
A senior Labour MP has urged Ed Miliband to start preparing now for a possible coalition with the Liberal Democrats because it will be difficult for the party to win an overall majority in ...
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1000 pupils and rising – primary schools go supersize
Barclay primary school in Leyton, east London, already has 1,200 pupils, and is expanding to 1,600 from September 2014. Photograph: Felix Clay for the ...
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Exit Europe from the left | Bob Crow
movements in other countries that are critical of the EU are led by the left , in Britain they are dominated by the hard right, and working-class concerns are largely ignored.This is particularly strange when you consider that the EU is largely a Tory neoliberal project. Not only did the Conservative prime ...
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Multinationals and tax a bad smell | Editorial
Call it the smell test. When Google justifies paying minimal taxes in the UK because "no money changes hands" here, while admitting that up to 70% of its relevant ad revenues are handled by UK staff, then all may be legal - but something still doesn't smell right. When Amazon negotiates the deals in its Slough office, but gets the paperwork done in ...
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Tim Cooks pitch for a corporate tax holiday suits Washington just fine | Heidi Moore
Apple , is a perfect example. It's easy to imagine that Cook wouldn't have a free moment, and that he'd be busy at home in Cupertino, California, with a litany of troubles: the fears that Apple's glory is over; that innovation isn't on schedule; that major shareholders are selling out; and the persistent downward misery of the company's stock price, which ...
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Letters We need smaller and regional banks
PM raises prospect of 1980s-style sale of RBS , 16 May), losing the taxpayer some 24bn, exposes the government's priorities. He insists on cutting benefits by 18bn and expenditure on public services by another 81bn, with all the hardship that causes, yet for ideological reasons gratuitously empties the public coffers of 24bn.Why sell RBS at all? Private-sector dominance of the banks led to ...
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Letters Tax avoidance distorts the market
You do evil, MPs tell Google , 17 May) - they also give them a built-in competitive advantage, because the same dodges are not available to domestic competitors in the markets in which they make their money (such as the UK). So why not hit them using not tax law but the Competition Act? The companies in such groups are ostensibly trading at arm's length - otherwise HMRC would disallow the ...
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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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