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Met Officers Brag About On-the-Job Collisions

Oh, Facebook. Something about being on the site just calls for people to post inappropriate photos and divulge private information that should probably be left off the interwebs. Even the police aren’t immune to the lures of the Facebook Spill-Your-Guts Demon — 18 officers were …

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Amy Winehouse Coughing Up Blood (Ew!)

Well, it seems our fave ne’er-do-well Londoner may have a case of tuberculosis. She was taken to the London Clinic on Monday after fainting at home and is said to be suffering from a chest infection, dramatic weight loss and lack of appetite. She’s also …

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Concern Over Gay ‘Wedding,’ but the Flowers Were Amazing

The Anglicans are all in a tizzy this week because of two gay priests who had a marriage-style ceremony at the church of St Bartholomew the Great on May 31. The couple were already civil partners and had hundreds of guests at the event to …

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Barrister Caught in Faux Jet Engine Foible

When it comes to cons, John Wilmot, a City barrister, didn’t just go big, he went jumbo. He attempted to get £17.5 million in VAT repayments by claiming he bought and sold four Boeing 747 engines for £100 million. What a barrister would be doing …

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Zippos Creates Mudbath in RIchmond

This year, when Zippos Circus came to Richmond — its 20th annual stop — it was forced to make a rather unseemly exit that apparently “caused traffic chaos and left behind a trail of destruction” that left Richmond “a muddy disgrace.” Now that reporting, while …

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Londoners Don’t Like Guns in their Adverts

Another advert, another controversy, it seems. Just a couple of weeks ago a Grand Theft Auto IV ad was removed from Streatham because its gun-toting avatar was deemed insensitive in an area that had recently seen two gun-related murders. Now an ad in Crystal Palace …

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Campbell to go to Court (Looking Fabulous)

Everyone’s favourite and fabulous phone-throwing supermodel, Naomi Campbell, was “bitterly disappointed” to lean that she’ll be called to court June 20 and charged with assaulting two police officers in T5. The supermodel learned of her charges his morning at the Heathrow police station, which include …

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Tooting ID Fraud Hot Spot

Tooting has just been bestowed with a rather dubious title — the UK’s worst place for ID fraud. It’s not just a little more likely that your identity, credit and good name will be stolen from SW17, it’s a whole five times more likely than …

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Dig for Victory and a Sustainable Future

St. James Park has a new summer attraction: Next to the already excellent swans, pelicans, geese and flower gardens, there’s a new patch of green — an allotment garden in the style of those planted during the Second World War. Planted in conjunction with an …

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Walk in the Trees at Kew

Take the tree-climbing kid in you to Kew Gardens for a brand new treat — a treetop walkway that lets you explore the canopy 18 metres above ground. Clearly not for the height-averse — they can explore the new underground Rhizotron, which shows off root …