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Would you dare to love like that?
Would you marry the girl you love - just to give her the day of her dreams - even though you knew she’d die a week later? Would you call your husband a “caring father”, even though he killed your son in his death plunge off a balcony? Or would you condemn
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School gets its first ever A-levels
For one Haringey school, last Thursday was a landmark occasion - the first time its pupils received A-level results. Alexandra Park Secondary School, a mixed comprehensive community school in Bidwell Gardens, Muswell Hill, only opened its sixth form
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Another A-mazing year for students
Sutton students proved their academic excellence last week by turning in another above average performance in their A-levels. The results, which were delivered to thousands of nervous youngsters last Thursday, amounted to a borough average of 97 per
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The '10 Commandments' of the Tube
THE next time I complain about endless delays, heat or overcrowding on the Tube or buses in London I’m going to think twice after a new survey revealed five per cent of passengers had been spat at or puked on during their travels. Yuck. The survey also
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Police car crashes into pub
POLICE, a publican and a member of the public escaped serious injury when a patrol car crashed at high speed into a pub. The car, on an emergency call, with blue lights flashing and its siren blaring, was travelling down Mayplace Road West in the centre
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GCSE students make the grade
STUDENTS across the county received their long-awaited GCSE results today, with the overall pass rate in England, Wales and Northern Ireland going up to 98.1 per cent. Nationally, students awarded grades A* to C, rose by 1.2 per cent from last year to
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Bendy buses have become the fare-dodgers’ favourite ride
FARE-DODGERS have had a field day since the introduction of the number 25 bendy bus which runs through Ilford. For the bus is top of the table when it comes to non-payers, according to a recent survey of 44 different routes. But that is not its only
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Dartford FC coming home on November 11
DARTFORD Football Club's 14-years of exile from its home town will come to an end on November 11. The Kent club - who are fifth in the Ryman League Division One South - will host Horsham YMCA in the first match at the new Princes Park stadium. It will
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Brent: Wembley's 'super casino' bid dropped
WEMBLEY'S bid to host the country's only "super casino" has been scrapped after Brent Council withdrew its support. Executive members voted against the plan by American gaming group Harrah's Entertainment last night because of the "social damage" they
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Devil’s Got Your Gold - Frank
ANYONE who's ever relied on T4 to help alleviate their Sunday morning hangover will be familiar with Totally Frank, a teen soap about the lives and loves of wannabe girl group Frank. Well, it turns out they're actually a real life band and Devil's Got
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Captain: This is Hazelville
ONE DODGY concept: Take the Deacon Blue blueprint and make it indie. Happily, Captain are brilliant and not pants. The man-woman vocals work brilliantly, as does the wonderfully dramatic, emotive indie rock setting. This is a fabulous debut. Rik Flynn
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Police apology over young father shot dead
POLICE have apologised to the family of a young father shot dead in the same east London street he was stabbed in earlier this year. Meanwhile the Met commissioner Sir Ian Blair has been told he must answer questions on his force's handling of the case
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Hewitt’s hospital u-turn ‘disaster’
GRAND plans to build a super hospital in Sutton have been left in ruins after the Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt, withdrew her decision to build a critical care centre at St Helier. The announcement, which has been branded "astonishing
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You, Me and Dupree (12A)
TWO'S company, three's most definitely a crowd in You, Me And Dupree, a gently effervescent comedy about a couple of newlyweds, Carl and Molly Peterson (Matt Dillon, Kate Hudson), who invite down-on-his luck best man Randolph Dupree (Owen Wilson) into
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Tramlink attempt to avoid strike
Croydon Tramlink operators have submitted a revised pay deal to unions in a last ditch bid to avert a strike. Last week First Group submitted an improved pay deal to the Transport and General Workers' Union (TGWU) to stop a strike scheculed for today
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Piccadilly Line service to Heathrow to be suspended
THE Piccadilly Line service to Heathrow terminals 1, 2 and 3 will be suspended on Tuesday and Wednesday next week (August 29 and 30) for essential signalling work. The work is part the preparation for the opening of the new Tube loop to terminal 4.
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Greenwich: Care services strike threat at council
CARE services for thousands of vulnerable people could be left crippled after a union renewed threats to hold a strike. More than 600 social services workers at Greenwich Council are poised to stage a mass walkout over an escalating dispute about staff
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Rover 'Bridget' to dig for life on Mars
MANKIND'S latest effort to find alien life on Mars - a six-wheeled robot nicknamed Bridget - has gone on show in London. Bridget is a prototype of the UK developed rover, officially named ExoMars, which will jet into space in 2011. Yesterday, the
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NICE decision could cut off drug
A Croydon man is fighting a proposal that would see him denied the cancer drug that could save his life. John Richardson, 58, was diagnosed with multiple myeloma - a cancer of the plasma cells - in November 2002. Since relapsing he has been successfully
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Protesters ‘stabbed in the back’ by phone company
CAMPAIGNERS have lost their fight against a mobile phone giant installing a 8.5m-high mast. They had staged protests at the site of a T-Mobile mast on the corner of St Paul's Wood Hill and Beddington Road, St Paul's Cray, since the company was granted
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Rolling Stones' would-be silencers get no satisfaction
The rock'n'roll spirit has clearly not deserted Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood as he approaches his seventh decade. Police attended Wood's Kingston Hill home three times as he partied into the early hours of Monday morning. Neighbours complained about the
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Two million expected at Notting Hill Carnival
More than two million people are expected to swamp the streets of west London at this weekend's Notting Hill Carnival. Carnival chairman Chris Mullard said that if the capital was blessed with good weather it could be the biggest in the street party's
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Police can hold 'air plot' suspects longer in UK first
IN A STEP that made UK legal history, police have been allowed to question nine of the alleged plane plot suspects for longer than two weeks. Under previous anti-terror laws, suspects could be held for a maximum of 14 days without being charged. But
