A bird shop owner who set up traps to capture goldfinches in his garden to sell at his store has been fined £7,000. Kamran Motahammanadani, aka Bob Mota, owner of Crews Hill Bird Centre, in Theobalds Park Road, Crews Hill, admitted the illegal possession
Rudi Vis, MP for Finchley and Golders Green, has cost the taxpayer more than £17,000 since the 2001 general election by asking 128 parliamentary questions on prisons. This represents two-thirds of all written questions submitted by the Labour MP since
AN off-duty policeman who tackled a suspected armed robber single-handedly has been given the highest police award by Sir Ian Blair, commissioner of the Metropolitan police. In a special ceremony on Friday PC John Hamilton, from Northolt, was presented
A "brilliant" scientist has been jailed for four months for smuggling 126 orchids into Britain, six of which are so rare they are on the brink of extinction. Doctor Sian Lim, 32, of Oakhill Road, Putney, pleaded guilty to 13 charges of smuggling the
A FAMILY is asking the authorities for a chance to stop their severely disabled child "from going into care". Danny Houghton, five, is brain damaged and completely paralysed by his cerebral palsy. He will be dependent on his parents Darren, 38, and
A THIRTY-second stop in an alleyway to look for a pencil landed Mark Ballard with a bill of £250. Mr Ballard, a company director of a building firm who lives in High Wycombe, stopped his 4x4 car in an alleyway near Priory Road on January 3 to look for
MARK Philo's dad described his son as the boy who had so much to live for. Pas Philo was still in shock following the accident which killed his son and cruelly made sure that life would never be the same again for him, his wife Christine, daughters Louise
Businesses near Battersea Bridge raised a toast after they reopened ahead of schedule on Monday. Owners calculated they had lost thousands of pounds of trade since the bridge shut when a 200-tonne barge hit it on September 20 last year. Charlie McVeigh
