Business is booming at Elstree Film Studios, home to the likes of Big Brother, but managers say its future is uncertain. Next month will herald the tenth anniversary of the purchase of the studio by Borehamwood council - a move which saved the historic
A police watchdog gave its report on the fatal shooting of innocent Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes to prosecutors today. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) will now decide whether any of the officers involved in his death at Stockwell Tube Station
George Galloway is the most costly backbencher in parliament in terms of his voting record between 2001 and 2004, new research found. A London School of Economics report on MP's expenses says he spent almost £1,500 for every vote he cast in his previous
A DISABLED have-a-go hero has been praised after he trailed a suspected shoplifter who had allegedly stolen £2,000 of designer glasses frames. David Hanness, 55, was shopping with his wife for glasses in Specsavers, High Street, Penge, at around 11am
A BOY paralysed from birth could be "set free" with the help of a Russian spacesuit. Shea French-Gibbens' family are raising cash to send the youngster to a pioneering paralysis centre in Poland. Seven-year-old Shea was born with cerebral palsy and
A MUM and 100 neighbours are demanding action over an alley caked in dog excrement which has made children violently sick. Fed up with traipsing through piles of dog dirt twice a day to take her seven-year-old son Kieran to school, Jackie McKie has started
A FORMER residents' association chairman is standing defiantly against yobs despite being forced from his home after a spate of attacks. Les Uden, who used to chair the Kings Farm Residents' Association, Gravesend, has moved off the estate into temporary
Three men have been arrested by detectives hunting the killers of a young City lawyer stabbed to death just before he reached his front door in Kensal Green. Last Thursday night the vicious knife attack on Tom ap Rhys Pryce, 31, continued even after
London's outgoing transport chief Bob Kiley has said he was worth his severance package of nearly £2 million the highest ever for a public servant in Britain. The 70-year-old American will get a £745,000 pay-off when he steps down on January 31, three
