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GIVE BLOOD!
Giving blood is an amazing opportunity to save someone's life. However over the past few years, there has been a shortage of blood donors across the UK. Young people especially have been urged to give blood, as specialists fear the amount of blood given
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TOP BOY
Just a few weeks ago, millions of us was transfixed to our TV screens for the four night epic drama series, depicting the gang culture that plagues many of our inner cities estates. Although issues were highlighted, it is not new to many of us who live
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Thamesmead Plus
Thamesmead is a vibrant comprehensive school in Surrey that is not only getting its students involved in a vast variety of activities but also providing those services to the community. The decision was recently made for the school day to end at 2:30pm
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Picking a Politician's brain
As Zac Goldsmith celebrates a year and a half in parliament I got to pick his brains about London’s greatest jewel and what the community needs most. When asked what his favourite thing about Richmond was, the environmental journalist side of Mr
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FROM SUFFRAGETTES TO BELIEBERS!
After being ruled and downgraded by men, from the beginning of time females are now fighting back and standing up for what they believe in. It all started with the suffragettes in the late 19th century/ early 20th century when women started to rebel
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What to gift for Christmas
Christmas is under a month away, and some of us still have not thought of what gift our loved ones, perhaps we are confused about what they may want, scared that they will not like what we buy them, or we are just short of money, but this year why not
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Winter of Discontent II: THE RETURN
The failures of the banks and previous Parliaments are being taken out on the people, and the people are not obligated to put up with it. Undoubtedly we have a huge monetary problem here in the UK, but surely that's no reason to put the burden on those
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Families invited to shine a light in memory of someone special this Christmas
Families are invited to shine a light for someone special they have loved and lost. The South East Cancer Help Centre (SECHC), in partnership with the Purley Christmas Lights Association will be erecting a Tree of Light in Purley town centre. The
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Bill Bailey reunited with dog at Battersea Dogs Home
Comedian Bill Bailey was overjoyed this week after being reunited with his beloved Balinese Dingo which had escaped from his Hammersmith home. The stand-up's pooch, called Teddi, managed to walk four miles and was found St Luke's Park in Chelsea
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Nick Clegg urges banks to do more to help ethnic minorities in business
Nick Clegg has urged banks to do more to help people from ethnic minorities succeed in business. At an event hosted by the People Can charity in Brixton on Thursday (November 24), the Deputy Prime Minister said “grave inequalities” still existed
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CHRISTMAS MARKET COMES TO KINGSTON
Christmas is coming to Kingston Upon Thames. About a month ago, Kingston put up its Christmas lights all around the town centre and the popular shopping centre, the “Bentall Centre”, has decorated its interior and exterior with many elaborate decorations
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Community sports facilities receive a boost of £1m from the Mayor
Community sports facilities in London are receiving a boost of £1m from the Mayor. Towpath Embankment in Wandsworth is one of 20 different projects to be awarded money from the Mayor's £15.5m Sports Legacy Fund, which with match funding and
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Community group shocked by Royal Horticultural Society award win
A volunteer has spoken of her shock at receiving a framed certificate of achievement from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Celia Davies coordinates volunteers for the Crystal Palace community group, Friends of Westow Park. She
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Brown and Root tower voted ugliest building in the capital
The "brutalist edifice" that looms over Colliers Wood has won yet another unwanted title. Satirical website S*** London - which documents "urban decay at its finest" - crowned the "grim" Brown and Root tower the ugliest building in the capital
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More than 40 people arrested in Croydon as part of Operation Hawk
More than 40 people were arrested in Croydon on Thursday as part of Operation Hawk. The operation saw 390 officers, including officers from 21 Safer Neighbourhoods Teams across Croydon were out in force targeting criminals involved in neighbourhood
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Police appeal for witnesses after man dies following road traffic collision
Police are appealing for witnesses following a fatal road traffic collision in Croydon. At around 10.20pm on Thursday November 3, police were called to a collision involving a silver Renault Megane and a male pedestrian in Purley Way, near
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Photography fans offered chance to learn about the industry at South Norwood event
Photography fans have the chance learn about a career in the industry from one of the best in the business. Grant Scott, the former art director of Elle and Tatler and current editor of specialist film and photography magazine, Hungry Eye, will be
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Lego legends helping Weybridge scout group build a brighter future
The Lego legends responsible for Christmas tree at St Pancras Station and James May’s Lego house are helping a Weybridge scout group save their hall. Bright Bricks, based in Surrey, is donating thousands of pieces to the 1st Weybridge (Brooklands Own
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Couple cycle 500 miles across desert for charity
A couple have cycled 500 miles across the desert to help raise £80,000 for disadvantaged kids in the UK and overseas. Alison Harvey, 48, a Lighter Life weight management counsellor from Epsom, and her husband David, 52, completed the ride across
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Family raise £12,000 to help son Cammy
A family from Cheam managed to raise £12,000 to combat cancer. Little Cameron “Cammy” Austin was only two-years-old when he was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He underwent two years of treatment and chemotherapy at the Royal
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Mayor of London visits Tooting Market
Boris Johnson told young entrepreneurs today he once ran his own business selling ceramic tiles, with help from his artist mother. He was launching a new initiative called the Hatch, which helps young people set up their own businesses in The
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Bar lets down partygoers
Hundreds of revellers could be forced to cancel their Christmas parties after a Kingston bar closed without warning. About 20 office and birthday parties were booked for Tamesis in the Rotunda in the run- up to Christmas before it was shut by landlord
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Pool pervert has sentenced half
A pervert who peered over cubicles in a swimming pool changing room has seen his sentence halved, but lost a bid to overturn a ban on swimming in just one pair of trunks. Registered sex offender Paul Spelman was jailed for three years for twice
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Garage customer receives penalty notice after technician drives her car home
A woman who left her car with a BMW garage for three days, only discovered a technician had taken the car home when she was sent a penalty notice. Laura Philipides took her BMW X1 to Cooper Croydon on November 9, so they could fix a steering
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Tennis fan meets his hero at World Tour Finals
A tennis-mad lad from West Wimbledon met his hero Thomas Berdych when he went behind the scenes at the ATP World Tour Finals last Wednesday (November 23). Callum Laker, 6, is a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital but his rare conditions don't stop
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Quins chief takes care of business
Harlequins chief executive David Ellis officially replaced former chief Mark Evans in August and Surrey Comet sports reporter Stuart Amos got the chance to discuss his new life at the Stoop. Stuart Amos: How have you settled in? David
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Extra safety checks in wake of tragic playground death
Schools have been advised to do extra safety checks in the wake of a tragic playground death. Kingston Council advised “a handful” of schools after Samuel Orola died when he fell off play equipment at Tolworth Infant and Nursery School in
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Police investigate suspicious fire in St Helier
Police are investigating a suspicious fire at a maisonette in St Helier. Firefighters from Sutton fire station were called to the property in Love Lane, at around 12.05am. The crew extinguished the fire behind the front door of the first floor flat
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Thank you card arrives after eight-year delay
A thank you card has arrived in Hampshire eight years after it was posted in Epsom. Jenny Buck, 58, from West Ewell, posted the card in August, 2003, only for her cousin to receive the battered envelope eight years later at her home in Farnborough
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'Lovely' duchess writes to young leukaemia patient
A nine-year-old cancer patient has struck up a friendship with Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge. Leukaemia sufferer Fabian Bate met the Duchess in October when she and Prince William opened the £18 million children’s cancer unit at
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Would-be trough thieves caught in the act
Opportunist thieves would have their noses in the trough had it not have been for a quick-thinking bystander. Two men, Kieron Finan, 18, and Raymond Taylor, 31, were walking their dog near the BedZed complex in Wallington when they spotted
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Businesses needed for Christmas present donations
A pub manager is calling on businesses to donate gifts to impoverished children this Christmas. Oz Bayldon, owner of the White Lion pub in Streatham High Road, is asking shops to put out collection bins in the run-up to the festive period.
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Residents parking consultation under way
A public consultation on introducing residents parking schemes has just been launched following claims that parking is out of control in Epsom and Ewell. A review began in March 2011 following demand from residents, police, councillors and
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Church deacon jailed for looting hairdressers
A trainee church deacon has been jailed for 20 months for looting after he was caught by a drop of blood left in a trashed barbershop. Earl Rodney, 23, grabbed goods from Headmasters hairdressers in Lavender Hill, Clapham, at the height of
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Audiences enthralled by theatrical history lecture
Audiences were enthralled at a theatrical lecture about a forgotten waterworks and reservoir that played a crucial role in defeating a killer disease. The Defeat of King Cholera, performed by two Kingston youth theatre companies at the Seething
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Street drinkers given last orders
Street drinkers have been clamped down on by shop owners and police. Officers from Wandle Valley Safer Neighbourhoods Team worked with Sutton’s Anti-Social Behaviour Unit to set up ‘Responsible Retail Agreements’ (RRAs) with nine licensed premises
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POEMS IN RICHMOND PARK
On Sunday 6th November, 22 hopeful poets and various notable literary names gathered at the Royal Ballet School in Richmond Park for the Poems in the Park 2011 awards presentation, as part of the Friends of Richmond Park society’s 50th anniversary celebrations
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Taser used in Thames Ditton street fight
Police Tasered a man to calm a fight outside a pub. Officers were called to reports of an assault outside the Greyhound pub in Thames Ditton on Thursday, November 17, at 9.45pm. When they arrived a fight was taking place in the road and police had to