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Consultation “Backs” Closing Four NW London A&E Departments

Campaigners furious that petitions with 66,000 signatures counted as just 18 responses.

Popular Performances Are Traditional Dance, Music And Fine Arts

Preview: O2 London Mela

Pan-Asian celebrations in west London this weekend.

Footballers play on a pitch in Camden

Get A Qualification In ‘Sick Football Skills’

West London football club offers qualification in futsal style

The Great Conservatory, Syon Park

Top Ten Things To Do In The Borough Of Hounslow

Including art deco gems, historic houses and greenhouses, unusual residents, beer and river views

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Council Cuts: Six More Councils Vote In Budgets

Barnet, Ealing, Hounslow, Kingston, Lewisham and Richmond sign on the dotted line.

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Local traffic be damned: ‘Games Lanes’ will be introduced on roads across London during the Olympics The Met has launched a new website for teens. A Grade II listed Forest Hill building is carefully to be converted into a swanky new leisure centre. Usain Bolt’s …

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Extra, Extra, Extra

Just a Minute will never be quite the same again as Sir Clement Freud dies. A Hounslow man has been convicted for murdering (by setting fire to) his ex-boyfriend. We may be due a new poet laureate, but in the meantime you can check out …

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Nature-ist: Chiswick Riverside

Walk the Thames path westwards.

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Heathrow Protesters Plan “Militant” Training Camps

Despite being branded a “a white elephant” by former chief scientific adviser Sir David King, plans for the third Heathrow runway steam ahead. With efforts to raise their case proving less than effective, protesters are now getting tough. Like a bunch of latter-day Chuck Norris …

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Thought Criminal Wins Appeal

Samina Malik, the Southall resident convicted last November after being found guilty of owning terror manuals, today had her sentence quashed. The Court of Appeal ruled that her conviction was unsafe, and that there was “a very real danger that the jury had became confused” …

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Ganja Gangs Growing in West London

Though landlords are a difficult lot to summon sympathy for – sorry, you want us to pay how much for our itty-bitty windowless flat? – our heart (nearly) bleeds to learn of this role reversal: landlords gouged by tenants. Truly? So it would seem. Cannabis …