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Win tickets to the European Limousine & Chauffeur Show
This is Local London has teamed up with the European Limousine & Chauffeur Show 2006 to give four lucky readers a pair of tickets to experience the UK's most spectacular motor show. The European Limousine & Chauffeur Show is one of the biggest exhibitions
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Off-course
An investigation is underway after a coach taking holidaymakers to Stansted airport collided with three cars and careered off a road in Bounds Green. The National Express service, travelling from London Victoria to Stansted airport, lost control on the
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Croydon: Council forecasts £4.2m overspend
Croydon Council has forecast a £4.2million overspend for this year. The figures were discussed at Monday evening's cabinet committee meeting. The potential overspend was detailed in a financial management report, which was delivered to cabinet members
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Streets evacuated after homes rocked by blasts
A series of explosions rocked St Margaret's in the early hours of Thursday morning after a car blaze set a house alight and ignited about 20 gas cylinders stored nearby. Twenty residents were evacuated from Charleville Mews, in Railshead Road, just after
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Jailed for 'largest child porn stash'
A PERVERT has been jailed indefinitely after having one of the UK's biggest child pornography collections. Michael Knapinski, from Forest Hill, was jailed at Woolwich Crown Court for having 470,978 images and 2,252 movies, of which 335,647 of the images
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Sport teams ‘left in the cold’ by £60m school
Community sports clubs and societies claim they have been left in the cold since the opening of the Ashburton Learning Village. They claim they are being excluded by a lack of facilities and a hike in the charges made by the school. The Addiscombe Corinthians
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Teacher's daughter murdered at exclusive school
A WOMAN was last night murdered at the exclusive Harrow School where her father teaches. Lucy Braham, 25, was found stabbed to death in her father's home within the school grounds, while a man suffering stab wounds was taken to hospital and later arrested
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Gig: The Corps of Army Music (Kneller Hall, Whitton)
Those who only associate army bands with military music would have changed their minds if they had been lucky enough to watch Rhythm Force at Kneller Hall, Whitton on Thursday. The Corps of Army Music wowed a delighted audience at the outdoor music
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Victory GP: ‘Ask for your fines back’
A Kingston GP is urging motorists to stand up against unfair parking fines. Dr Richard Lanigan was one of 186 people who used unclearly marked residents-only bays on Elm Road, Kingston, last year. The fine was quashed on appeal this month and the Parking
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Man accused of encouraging death of non-Muslims
Two more London men are due in court charged with a total of 15 terror offences over a suspected attempt to recruit a cell of British suicide bombers. Twelve people are now being prosecuted following anti-terror raids that started at a Chinese restaurant
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Footballer, 11, killed in crash
Tributes have been paid to a "charming" 11-year-old boy killed in a tragic road accident in Feltham. Shane Lynch was travelling home with his 15-year-old cousin when he was hit by a silver Toyota Celica car in Staines Road. The pair had just got off
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Miraculous escape as train derails
Hundreds of commuters escaped serious injury when a train approaching Epsom station was derailed on Tuesday night. The London Waterloo to Effingham Junction service was travelling at about 20mph when it left the rails shortly after 7.40pm. Luckily all
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College’s policy unfair to pupils
Wimbledon College will have to change its admissions policy after the Education under-secretaryecretary, Andrew Adonis, ruled that the current procedure is "not in the best interests of local parents and children." The decision upheld Wandsworth Council's
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Bomb cops investigate woods discovery
A LANE of the M40 motorway was closed off by police yesterday amid reports that liquid explosives were found by teenagers at the roadside. Two 13-year-olds cycling through Fennell's Wood, Loudwater, on Wednesday night discovered two bin liners, which
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Man in court over huge gun haul
A 55-YEAR-OLD man has appeared in court charged with multiple offences after police said allegedly found hundreds of guns. Mick Shepherd, of Wentworth Drive, Dartford, is charged with conspiracy to sell or transfer prohibited weapons and conspiracy
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Anti-airport groups gang up to foil master plan
OPPONENTS of expansion to Luton Airport have bolstered their campaign by launching a new opposition group ahead of the publication of the airport's final master plan. The Campaign Against Luton Airport Expansion (CALAE) is the latest in a string of groups
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Baggage rules could see economy suffer
Tighter restrictions on hand luggage at Heathrow could cause long-term damage to the UK economy, Spelthorne's MP has declared. Conservative MP David Wilshire has asked the government to drop the new rules, except for the ban on liquids, which were put
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Police link fatal stabbing and railway death
A WOMAN was stabbed to death and a man died in front of a train in two incidents being linked by police. The woman, a 32-year-old, was stabbed at the Old Actonian Sports Ground in Gunnersbury Drive. Shortly afterwards, a 37-year-old man died in front
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Swim instructor guilty
A Shepperton swimming instructor has been found guilty of carrying out sex attacks at a swimming pool on two of his eight-year-old pupils. Ross Sweet, 24, molested the two young girls twice on separate occasions at a swimming pool in Staines. He touched
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‘Wrong footed’ by homes’ firm
Spelthorne's most prominent social housing landlord has admitted it "got off on the wrong foot" with promoting its plans to regenerate Stanwell. A2 Housing Group plans to demolish and totally rebuild the large estate of prefab homes at Hollywell Way
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Terror suspect: ‘People don’t turn radical overnight’
A ONE-TIME terror suspect says Muslim extremists need to be understood, not condemned. Woolwich-born Usman Ali was released without charge six days after being arrested over suspected links to an al-Qaeda plot to bomb the Canadian Parliament. Now, speaking
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Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (12A) ***
THE high stakes, high-speed world of NASCAR racing provides an unlikely comedy pit stop for Saturday Night Live alumni Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. The eponymous hero is Ricky Bobby (Will Ferrell), son of semi-professional stock car racer and amateur
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Student, 17, killed on way to work
A 17-year-old Epsom student was killed instantly when her bicycle was involved in an accident with a lorry near her home on Friday. Jenniffer Mugford was cycling to her work placement at Wallace Fields Infants School at about 9.10am when the accident
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Wedding link to UFO sighting
A UFO mystery has been solved by a guest at a wedding reception. A couple from Longwalk, Istead Rise, were left dumbfounded after they encountered strange lights in the night sky. The pair, who insisted they were not nutters, claim they saw six red
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The Queen (12A) ****
HELEN Mirren delivers a tour-de-force portrayal of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in Stephen Frears' compelling portrait of the aftermath of the death of Princess Diana in August 1997. Screenwriter Peter Morgan and his team of researchers have sifted
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Sally-Anne Bowman's tragic anniversary
Friends and family of Sally Anne Bowman gathered around her grave to celebrate what would have been her 19th birthday. In an emotional setting, grieving mum Linda was joined by Sally Anne's three sisters, her boyfriend Lewis Sproston and friends on the
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The Black Dahlia (15) ***
WITH a fine pedigree in brutal, uncompromising crime dramas - Scarface, The Untouchables and Carlito's Way - director Brian De Palma would seem a perfect ringmaster for this handsome adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. Unfortunately, Josh Friedman's
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Dictators and drag queens at 50th London Film Festival
Idi Amin, the evil Pumpkin King, Robert F. Kennedy and the youngest of three Aborigine wives... They will all be part of the 50th London Film Festival next month. In the space of two weeks, the festival will screen 181 feature films and 131 shorts from
