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  • Two still held over pub death

    TWO men are still being questioned in connection with the death of a 30-stone Charlton fan. Duncan Frame - known locally as "Big Duncan" - was rushed to Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woolwich, after being found unconscious when a charity night at his local

  • Tube returns to Heathrow Terminal 4

    PASSENGER services from Heathrow Terminal 4 Tube station are due to resume at 5.45am on Sunday September 17 2006, allowing people to travel direct to and from Central London on the Piccadilly Line. The Terminal 4 station has been closed for nearly 20

  • Wife tells of horror knife attack

    A DAD is recovering in hospital after being stabbed as he tried to protect his son from a gang. Andrew Gayfer, 46, remains in Darent Valley Hospital, Dartford, following the attack early yesterday. Speaking to News Shopper, his wife Deborah said

  • £5M spent so far on a 'hole in the ground'

    MORE than £5m of taxpayers' money has been spent on the Arcade site in Walthamstow, with little to show for it. Council bosses have shelled out £170,000 on security, £440,718 on demolition costs, £210,000 to "manage" the site, and £603,000 for external

  • Hate preacher could soon be free

    A RADICAL Muslim cleric, who lived in east London before being jailed for soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred, could be free in weeks. Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal was sent to prison for nine years, reduced to seven on appeal, in February 2003

  • Vile carer jailed for sex attack

    A 52-year-old man who raped a woman with a mental age of three at a care home in Sutton borough has been sentenced to six years in prison. Peter John Clark, of Oakleigh Way, Mitcham, was handed the sentence at Kingston Crown Court last Thursday after

  • Tube returns to Terminal 4

    PASSENGER services from Heathrow Terminal 4 Tube station are due to resume at 5.45am on Sunday September 17 2006, allowing people to travel direct to and from Central London on the Piccadilly Line. The Terminal 4 station has been closed for nearly 20

  • Tuk-tuk girls made world's longest trip on 3 wheels

    After being stopped 35 times by Russian police and being flashed at by a Chinese truck driver, the tuk-tuk two have returned triumphant to the shores of the UK. Jo Huxter, 27, who grew up in Thames Ditton and Antonia Bollingbroke-Kent, 27, from Norfolk

  • 'Same gunman' behind 3 drive-by shootings

    An investigation into recent drive-by shootings in Borehamwood is the biggest current police operation in Hertfordshire, it was revealed this week. And police are linking a similar shooting in St Albans last Thursday night to the two in Borehamwood on

  • No explanation for sewage flood in basements

    WHAT caused our basements to be swamped with raw human waste? That is the question Walthamstow residents are asking Thames Water. The flood swept under homes in Hibbert Road, Walthamstow, on August 26 but Thames Water has so far been at a loss to explain