Fragments of Roman pottery have been unearthed following an excavation at a housing development site in Isleworth. The pottery, along with a number of boundary ditches, could be confirmation that the area was the most westerly point of occupation for
Cuts to services at Ashford Hospital will take place two years earlier than anticipated, according to a review of the trust's financial situation. Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals NHS Trust is projecting a £3.61million deficit for this year, however,
Everything about Phantom of the Opera has an epic quality, including the facts and figures which swirl around it. Since the show's London debut in 1986, it has played 110 cities in 20 countries. It has been seen by some 60 million people, grossing more
One man is fighting for his life and another is in hospital after a gang of eight went on a stabbing rampage in west London. Police were called to outside Hammersmith Palais in Shepherd's Bush just after midnight, where they found the first victim stabbed
Three men accused of strangling and stabbing a gay Thai masseur to death have appeared at the Old Bailey. Darren Johnson, 27, of Chivalry Road, Battersea, Muhammed Nduka, of Camberwell Road, and Mohammed Choudhury, from Croydon, both 24, are charged
Police are investigating claims that a bus driver attacked and drove into a woman following a rush-hour argument. Gloria Young, 21, says she got into an argument with the driver of the G1 bus in Wickersley Road, Battersea, shortly after 6pm on Friday
Futuristic plans to turn crumbling Putney Hospital into a multi-million pound medical centre have been undermined by soaring costs. At £4million, the subterranean car park became the main stumbling block, judged too costly because of its two storeys
A team of policemen was deployed outside a Kingston over fears that teenagers from other borough schools would converge en-masse to beat up its pupils. Ten officers patrolled Tiffin School last Friday afternoon because of rumours that isolated attacks
A £33million deal to help create state-of-the-art surgical and gynaecological wards at Kingston Hospital has been sealed, health chiefs announced last week. Work on the new Phase 5 development on the northern end of the hospital site, bordering the Esher
A TEAM of crooks are stealing Victorian doors worth hundreds of pounds from the front of people's houses. The two men involved in the scam are touring Waltham Forest in a red van. They approach people at their front doors, tell them there is a problem
A trainee policeman is beginning a life sentence this week for murdering his father at their family home in Enfield. Stephen Vaughan, 22, bludgeoned milkman Donald Vaughan to death as he sat reading in the kitchen of their home in Nursery Gardens, on
Tom Hanks and Polar Express director Robert Zemeckis speak to Rob Carnevale about how new performance capture' technology could unleash actors into timeless roles. AS cutting-edge technology merges with Christmas spirit in The Polar Express, the animated
