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Ambassador spends fair few pennies on the smallest room
Theatre-goers will be familiar with having to dash for the loo as soon as the curtain falls before the queue stretches out of the door. So staff at New Wimbledon Theatre were understandably flushed with pride to unveil major refurbishments to their toilets
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First steps after 6 years in wheelchair
A brain embolism six years ago left Paul Green wheelchair bound and unable to use the entire left side of his body. But this month he reached an important milestone, walking independently for the first time since 2000. The 49-year-old, of Heathfield
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Curfew won’t stop Pete’s performance
Babyshambles frontman Pete Doherty will still headline a Clapham festival tonight despite again pleading guilty to drugs charges and checking into rehab, insist organisers. Doherty, 27, pleaded guilty to possessing heroin, crack cocaine and cannabis
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Teacher jailed for sex abuse of boy, 14
A disgraced teacher from Borehamwood who took photos of himself and another teacher abusing a 14-year-old boy has been jailed for 20 months. John Foxley, 54, was head of geography at Lyndhurst School in the late 1990s, and along with Shaun Tyler, 37,
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Inquiry after 'infatuated' patient leaves doctor £1.5m
A leading psychiatrist at Roehampton's famous Priory Hospital has been suspended from work after an "infatuated" patient left him £1.5 million in her will. Dr Peter Rowan was left the whopping sum after Patricia May, 66, allegedly became infatuated with
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Screams ignored as girl, 12, is attacked
A 12-year-old Jewish girl who was beaten unconscious and robbed by anti-Semitic yobs on a bus has spoken out at her disgust that no-one came to her aid. The girl, who does not want to be identified, was stamped on several times in a racist attack lasting
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I found a fox on my bed
Surviving on scraps and people's rubbish has forced urban foxes to become much bolder than their countryside counterparts. But when Lesley Butcher returned to her home in The Grange, Wimbledon Common, two weeks ago, nothing prepared her for the fantastic
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House extension comes crashing down
This house, left exposed like a "doll's house", would easily be at home in war-torn Beirut, but is actually the result of a "dangerous" building disaster in Southfields. Nosy neighbours were given more than the usual glimpse into how the other half lived
