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New school is 'too big'
Plans to build a secondary school near Alexandra Palace in Wood Green have run into an early barrage of criticism. Haringey Council's £25m proposal will see a 1,080 pupil school open its doors next to Station Road in 2010. But fears are growing that
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M Ward - Post-War (4AD) ****
MATT Ward's cool. Proper, auteur cool. Cool like an American original should be. Handy with a melody and right tasty with his playing, he cooks up hooks that don't let go and tunes that take you in their arms and make you feel all warm inside. And
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Missy Elliott - Respect Me (Atlantic/Goldmind) ***
AS far as Missy E goes, this 17-track effort is a stonewall banker. Freed from the flab that can weigh her studio albums down, you get all the biggies - including the Basement Jaxx remix of 4 My People which renders an otherwise ordinary tune as a
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The Black Crowes - The Lost Crowes (Rhino) ***
PARKSTONE session guru (and former Black Crowes guitarist) Paul Stacey has dipped into the Black Crowes vaults to remix the band's two lost albums - 1993's Tall and 1997's Band. Early versions of songs that ended up on 1994's Amorica like A Conspiracy
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Bob Dylan - Modern Times (Columbia) *****
MODERN Times has been lavished with extraordinary praise. One critic claimed it was right up there with Blonde On Blonde. The truth? This is a superb album but not quite the flawless masterpiece that some are suggesting. It opens with an unashamed
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College one step closer to becoming university
Twickenham is now nearer to having its own university after St Mary's College was granted the power to award its own degrees. The Waldegrave Road college is currently part of the University of Surrey and students taking courses at the campus are awarded
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No pardon, no decision says council
A PARISH council has decided to delay a decision whether to place an executed soldier's name on its war memorial. Shoreham Parish Council met last night and discussed the case of Private Thomas Highgate, who was executed for desertion during the First
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Theatre: The Madras House (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond)
The Orange Tree's choice to open its forthcoming season of Shaw with a rarely-performed play by Harley Granville-Barker is an interesting one. The theatre has a close association with the playwright, having premiered his final two plays, while Barker's
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Theatre: Heroes (Richmond Theatre)
It is often argued that the best thing about growing old is having the freedom to say what you think. Gustave, Christopher Timothy's grumpy character in Heroes, coming to Richmond Theatre next week, does just that, yet the star of All Creatures Great
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Greenwich: Tory defends gay surgery decision
A TORY councillor has defended plans to hold surgeries exclusively for gay and lesbian constituents. It follows an announcement on the Greenwich Conservatives' website three of the borough's 13 Conservative councillors will hold the additional surgeries
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Jazz: Jazz Funk Collective (Epsom Playhouse)
Before some old pros kick off the season at the Charles Cryer, a young British band returns from their first tour abroad to play the Myers Studio Theatre at Epsom Playhouse. And we're not talking The Beatles or Busted here - this lot are also jazz freaks
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Theatre: Virgins (New Wimbledon Theatre)
If there's anything more excruciating than realising your parents have had sex, it's realising your children are going to have sex. Such is the embarrassment surrounding the issue it's unlikely to be the first topic of conversation at most family dinner
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Beerfest (15) **
This boozy comedy opens with a sobering disclaimer. "Warning: The performers in this film are professionals. If you drink this much, you will die." The alcohol consumption in Beerfest is truly extraordinary; the film, co-written by the five lead actors
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Angry builder 'tried to run over parking warden'
A BUILDER was so angry after getting a parking ticket that he allegedly tried to run over the traffic warden, police have said. Kosovan Kujtim Bajraktari, 22, from Leytonstone, allegedly mounted the pavement and tried to hit the warden after he was given
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£7.5m hospital cuts would be 'devastating'
Patients at Kingston Hospital have been left dumbfounded after it was announced that savage cuts will be made by April to recoup a £7.5m drop in income. Unions, health campaigners and Richmond's MP Susan Kramer said such cuts would be devastating, and
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‘I know Bin Laden’
A Brentford man who went berserk on a plane, shouting that he knew Osama Bin Laden, had to be restrained with hand and leg cuffs. The drunken rampage began after Virgin airline crew refused to let 36-year-old Moustafa Moufaden buy more alcohol. Demanding
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Thames Water fined for sewage leak
SEWAGE containing the E.coli bug was allowed to flow into a river near schools and homes by Thames Water, a court heard. The water company was fined £50,000 and £2,854 costs after it was found guilty of shoddy maintenance, which led to a huge leak of
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Woman in court over shopkeeper murder
A woman is due in court over the knife murder of a Wembley shopkeeper who tried to protect his wife against rowdy customers. Janine Spence, 42, has been charged with stabbing to death Sivaperakash Supramaniam near his off-license in north-west London
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Teen charged with mum's stab death
A teenager has been charged with the murder of a mother stabbed to death as she walked to work. The 17-year-old boy is accused of a "frenzied" attack on Carmelita Tulloch, 51, in Vauxhall, south London, on Tuesday morning. The grandmother was knifed
