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Brothers guilty of killing Damilola
The brothers who killed Damilola Taylor were finally brought to justice today - after six years, three trials, £16 million and the heartache of two parents. An Old Bailey jury took a day to find Danny, 18, and Ricky Preddie, 19, guilty of manslaughter
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Burning body: man arrested
A 44-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in connection with the "burning body" murder investigation in Wooburn Common. The identity of the woman found in woods of Hedsor Lane on Saturday, July 29, remains unknown despite an artist's impression of her face
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Croydon magistrate enters Tory mayor race
A Croydon magistrate is hoping to become the Conservative Party's candidate for London's mayor in the 2008 election. Simon Fawthorp, who has been a magistrate since the age of 23, wants to secure the Conservative nomionation of putting communities first
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Pharrell: In my mind
Attended school for exceptional intelligence, own clothing range, produced one song in five in last year's charts - Pharrell Williams' CV is hotter than the London Underground at rush hour. And his solo release In My Mind reaches similar temperatures
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Father charged over body in suitcase
A man has been charged with the murder of his daughter whose body was found in a suitcase. Mahmod Babakir Mahmod, 51, from Mitcham was charged with the murder of Banaz Mammod Babakir Agha, who police believe may have been the victim of an honour killing
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Dismay as one patient platform is cancelled to launch another
The chairman of a Croydon patient forum, ensuring local people have their say in decisions about borough health services, says he is angry at Government plans to abolish the group. The Department of Health announced last month that Patient and Public
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Driver arrested after fatal M25 crash
A LORRY driver has been arrested after a motorway smash which killed four people. The 54-year-old man from Surrey has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving following the accident involving a lorry and a car on the M25 yesterday
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London Mela to showcase best of Asia
PAKISTANI rock stars, Bollywood-inspired salsa dance, pyrotechnics and fountains plus six stages of the best live music, comedy and dance. This year's London Mela has something for everyone and, best of all, it is entirely free. The largest South Asian
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Five held over bus blaze
FIVE teenagers wanted in connection with a £50,000 bus blaze, have been arrested by police. Passengers had to be evacuated as the top deck of the Stagecoach bus burst into flames in Dartford Road, Dartford. Following the release of CCTV footage from
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Ealing: Leaders get out to inspect street cleaning
THE new leadership of Ealing Council is continuing its shake-up of services by making personal checks on street cleaning teams. Leader Councillor Jason Stacey vowed to clean up the borough in his Tory party manifesto pledge. Now he has promised to personally
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Woman murdered in South Harrow
A WOMAN was murdered at a house in South Harrow in the small hours of this morning. Police called to Parkfield Road at about 12.30am discovered the body of the 23-year-old. She had been stabbed several times. A 33-year-old man was arrested and is in
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Turning it all around
A Croydon school that was on the brink of being put into special measures is the most improved in the borough and has set its sights on gaining specialist status for visual arts and media by 2007. Addington High was labelled as one of the least successful
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Lady In The Water (PG)
ONCE upon a time, there was an Indian-born filmmaker called M Night Shyamalan, who proved it was still possible to wrong-foot savvy audiences with his 1999 supernatural thriller The Sixth Sense. The daring final twist captured the public imagination
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Gas leak closes Baker Street
UPDATE: 1PM Baker Street Tube station and surrounding shops and flats have been evacuated due to a gas leak. Thousands of people had to be evacuated after the leak was detected at 9am. The source of the leak has been traced to the basement of a
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Journalist held in royal phone tap row
The royal editor of News of the World and two other men have been arrested over a plot to tap phone calls from Prince Charles's household. Police have now widened their investigation in the belief that the calls of other public figures beyond the Royals
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Harrow: 'Black pioneer' launches bid to be Mayor of London
A HARROW councillor has joined the race to become London's next mayor. Councillor Lurline Champagnie, who represents Pinner for the Conservatives, was elected the borough's first black female councillor in 1986 and was the borough's first black mayor
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Nacho Libre (12A)
THE geek shall inherit the Earth. In their debut feature Napoleon Dynamite, husband and wife screenwriting team Jared and Jerusha Hess crafted a delightfully quirky coming of age story about a socially awkward misfit's ill-fated attempt to campaign for
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'Abysmal’ Northen Line leaves thousands stranded
The misery of the "abysmal" Northern Line reached new heights yesterday when a signalling failure left thousands of commuters with massive delays, and then no service at all. Workers heading up to town were left stranded at Morden station, either waiting
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Epo-555 - Mafia
Epo-555's previous album, Dexter Fox, was one of 2004's best - an infectiously catchy disc that recalled the best of the Dandy Warhols and New Order. The band hail from Denmark, which is The New Manchester in the number of new great bands it is
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Starlight Drive - Beautiful Accidents
It's all very well for people to enjoy sitting in their bedrooms strumming guitars and keeping themselves happy, but occasionally they manage to convince themselves that someone else should be listening too. Jared Jay, unfortunately, falls into
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100-year-old woman back home
A 100-year-old woman who had gone missing while on a trip with her daughter has been found. Lesitetuta Nakitto who had been staying in West Norwood disappeared after she failed to follow her daughter onto the 148 bus to Camberwell in Park Lane near Hyde
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Body remains search begins
Police have begun a fingertip search for human remains in the garden of a New Addington house which was once occupied by a convicted paedophile. The move follows an anonymous letter sent to a family who moved into the house in Walton Green. The letter
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Hummingbiird - Hummingbiird
Not many bands self title their fourth album, but for Chicago's Hummingbiird, this is something of a new debut. Formed in 1999 (and formerly called Pedal Steel Transmission), the band set out to bridge the singer-songwriter country-based rock of
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These Streets - Paulo Nutini
PAULO Nutini's debut album has created quite a storm, and quite rightly so. My curiosity was piqued by the catchy and listenable single Last Request as well as rave reviews from the T In The Park festival - and the album is definitely as impressive
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Shetland, it’s a bunny old place
A coach-load of pensioners singing along to Andy Stewart standards, a bounty on rabbits, kagouls and a talc mine all helped turn a journey to Shetland into a Quentin Tarantino-style travelogue for travel editor Jeremy Smith. I had really hoped I could
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Monster House (PG)
DELICIOUSLY creepy and wickedly funny, Monster House might just be the best animated family feature of the year. Employing the same motion-capture animation pioneered in The PolarExpress, which translates the movements of real life actors into the
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Young vandals start bus blaze
POLICE have released images of six teenagers they want to speak to in connection with a £50,000 bus blaze. The fire completely gutted the top deck of the Stagecoach bus and caused damage to the bottom level. The bus had left Bexleyheath for Bluewater
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Dangerous bus routes revealed
Route 25 from Ilford to Oxford Circus has been revealed as London's most dangerous bus route with 471 code red emergency calls in the past year. While drivers of the 61 bus, which goes from the Gordon Arms pub in Chislehurst to Bromley North station,
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£100,000 signed Darwin book recovered
A SIGNED first edition of a book worth £100,000 has been recovered two-and-a-half years after it was stolen. The 147-year-old copy of The Origin of Species, by world-famous Victorian scientist Charles Darwin, was taken from Down House, Luxted Road, Downe
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100-year-old woman missing
A 100-year-old woman staying in West Norwood has gone missing while on a trip with her daughter. Lesitetuta Nakitto, who was born in 1906, was last seen at a bus stop in Park Lane near Hyde Park on Sunday at about 8.30pm. She had been trying to get
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Croydon tram strike averted
Crisis talks between a tram workers' union and operators have averted industrial action. Croydon's tram service was set for a weekend of disrupted service after pay talks between the tram workers union, Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU), and
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Damilola jury considers verdict
The jury in the third Damilola Taylor trial has retired to decide whether two brothers killed the ten-year-old with a broken beer bottle. Danny, 18, and Ricky Preddie, 19, deny manslaughter of the schoolboy who bled to death on the stairwell of a housing
