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Pass masters: Students celebrate A-level success
A-level students at Hertswood - Borehamwood's only secondary school - celebrated results as staff hailed another year of significant improvement'. The percentage of students who got an A grade doubled from last year, from five per cent to ten, but remained
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John Tucker Must Die (12A)
JOHN Tucker is the hunky high school basketball team captain and womaniser, keeping three gorgeous girlfriends on the go at the same time. What he's reckoned without is that hell hath no fury like a hattrick of woman scorned as the cheated girlfriends
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Arrest over teen's murder in club
A man has been arrested over the gun murder of a teenager at one of London's most fashionable nightclubs. But police are still looking for the getaway car used after 18-year-old Sharif Zaiden was shot three times in the chest at the Egg club in King's
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'Priceless' Peruvian artefact recovered in London
A PRICELESS ancient Peruvian headdress looted from an archaeological site in 1988 has been recovered in London. The artefact - dated back to 700AD - is a national treasure in Peru. The Met said a central London solicitor's firm facilitated the return
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A-level results 'better than last year'
STUDENTS across Watford breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday morning when their A-Level results were revealed. The figures for many schools have topped last year's achievements, with many recording pass rates matching or topping the national average
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Check before you travel by Tube at the weekend
Tube passengers have been urged to "check before you travel" at weekends because of an extensive programme of improvement work over coming months. Earlier this year, London Underground announced a major increase in the level of engineering work at
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Listener discovers real mum in radio competition
A WOMAN found out she was adopted and that her ice skating coach was her real mother after taking part in a radio competition. Twenty-year-old Londoner Lizzie Dennis made the stunning discovery while trying to win tickets to a Rolling Stones concert
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The fun of the carnival
Soak up the excitement and atmosphere of Carnival time Caribbean style when the Caribbean Carnival Extravaganza comes to Fairfield next month. In a lavishly designed and spectacular display of colour, music and stunning costumes this exciting and exotic
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What a wonderful weald
The whole family will enjoy a visit to the Weald of Kent Craft Show, where traditional crafts, lively demonstrations, hands-on workshops and live entertainment come together within the beautiful grounds of Penshurst Place. More than 250 individual British
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It will be a sweet summer with classic PC games
Xplosiv have teamed up with online sweetshop HandyCandy.co.uk to offer a fantastic hot summer competition. Not only will one lucky winner win five Xplosiv PC games for summer including Hello Kitty, Mashed, Space Invaders Anniversary, Sonic and Knuckles
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Kop a load of this DVD
Created by the award-winning playwright Alan Bleasdale (Boys from the Blackstuff, GBH) as a way to entertain his pupils while teaching, Scully also appeared in novels and on the radio before appearing on screen in this Channel 4 series, broadcast in 1984
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Comedy duo’s film hit
Wilt stars Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, who are supported by award-winning comedy actress Alison Steadman. Regularly overlooked for promotion on the grounds that his college lacks cash and he personally lacks drive, teacher Henry Wilt (Rhys Jones)
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Cooking up a musical treat
Sam Cooke: Portrait Of A Legend 1951-1964 includes all of his essential hits and provides a definitive overview of a career that has left a lasting mark on American music that remains indelible today over 40 years after Cooke's untimely death. ABKCO
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Classic Mason on DVD
Odd Man Out stars the legendary James Mason as Johnny McQueen, an idealistic leader of an illegal organisation in Northern Ireland, imprisoned for gun-running. After escaping he is shot and wounded, before discovering he is not just wanted by the police
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A potting mad movie
Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire is an abstract tale of gangsters and snooker players constructed as a modern musical. Characters Billy Kid (Phil Daniels) the snooker protege and seven-times world champion Maxwell Randall (Alun Armstrong) stage
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'Silly strike season' arrives in London
London commuters are set for more travel misery with strikes planned on trains and buses and possibly on the Tube. London Assembly Transport Committee chairman Geoff Pope said the "silly strike season" had definitely arrived. "These internal disputes
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Life's not quite as bright in Kingston
It may be situated on the Thames, with among London's lowest unemployment and crime rates and some of the country's best schools - but Kingston has only the 110th best quality of life in the UK according to a new survey released last week. Residents
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Head for Surrey if you want to get to London
TRAIN passengers who want to return from London in the evening peak hours can dodge the new restrictions by buying a ticket to Redhill, it has just emerged. The loophole was discovered by watchdog London Travelwatch, which is campaigning against operating
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A Scanner Darkly (15)
The future is anything but bright in Richard Linklater's animated dystopian fantasy, A Scanner Darkly. Adapted from the mind-bending novel by Philip K.Dick, the film imagines a haunting vision of the near future, in which the war on terrorism has been
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Police get 'plane plot' extension
Police have been given extra time to question 23 of the alleged plane plot suspects, while a US-bound flight has been diverted after a claustrophobic passenger caused a security alert. Two American fighter jets escorted the plane to Boston after the
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Harsh Times (15)
WHEN it comes to self-preservation, each and every one of us is capable of betraying the people we love in the blink of an eye. We just don't like to admit it. Screenwriter David Ayer, who penned the coruscating Training Day with Denzel Washington
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Slasher: “Knife was Bush’s gift”
A Southfields thug slashed a man across the face with a knife he bizzarely claimed was a gift from US President George Bush. Construction worker Everton Reid, 27, from Keevil Drive, was jailed for four and a half years for the savage attack which left
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The US invasion hits Redbridge
AN ALERT has been sounded over foreign invaders that have conquered Redbridge and made their home in the River Roding. A top ten of overseas plants and creatures that have made their home in Britain and overstayed their welcome has been issued by the
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Happiest and saddest wedding story is told
It was the saddest, yet most joyful wedding of the year. On July 28 Aimee Chandler-Honnor, 23, of Oakbury Road, Fulham, married Oliver (Oli) Kaszas, also 23, of Southfields. A week later she died. Aimee and Oli were childhood sweethearts, who met
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Tooting's close encounter with third kind
After the unexplained sightings of mysterious flying objects in Wandsworth's skies nearly two weeks ago, a baffled UFO expert has urged more people to come forward to help them discover what they were. Gobsmacked witnesses watched on in amazement as
