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  • Newham: Grieving mum furious at murder pub re-opening

    THE mother of a man who was murdered outside a pub has expressed her shock at a decision to allow it to re-open. Newham council also says it is outraged after a court overturned its decision to deny a late-night licence to the Ram Tavern in North Woolwich

  • Was she the real-life My Fair Lady?

    My Fair Lady's Eliza Doolittle may have been inspired by a real impoverished cockney girl turned Victorian actress, and her descendants could be living in south London, a researcher believes. And the family, thought to be in Carshalton, may unknowingly

  • We have your car – 150 miles away

    A south London man received a valet parking service with a difference when he drove to a local restaurant for a meal out and returned the next day to find his car was 150-miles away. Daniel Rudgely, of Carshalton, thought he was doing the responsible

  • Stamping killers ‘went a bit mad’

    Three Lithuanian men who brutally kicked a father-of-two to death have been found guilty of murder. Horace Wright, 43, of Swains Road, Colliers Wood, sustained fatal injuries in a vicious stamping attack after stepping in to resolve a dispute about the

  • Family return to find dead cat with its tail hacked off

    A father has found the family cat dead after he believes attackers hacked off its tail. Simon Turner, 39, found the body of their six-year-old cat Henry a few doors away from their home in New Malden, south-west London. Henry had been missing for two