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  • Benefit fraudster jailed

    A COUNCILLOR has praised anti-fraud officers after a benefit cheat was jailed for eight months this week. Claire Fletcher, 36, of College Road, Harrow Weald, started claiming income support as well as housing and council tax benefit as a single mother

  • Dame Kelly opens sports hall

    A NEW £2.35m sports hall was opened at a Kenton school by Dame Kelly Holmes yesterday (Tuesday, January 29). Dame Kelly gave a ten minute speach to children at Claremont High School, before touring the new hall and unveiling a plaque. Paul McCann, assistant

  • Tony Hawk: "Keep skatepark"

    PRO skateboarder Tony Hawk has backed calls to save a local skatepark due to be replaced by Harrow Council. Users of Harrow Skatepark, in Byron Park, have been campaigning to save it since plans were announced by the council to build over the site as

  • Planning advice sold

    HARROW Council has sold planning advice to around 80 companies whose applications it has considered. Feedback given by planning officers can attract as much as £1,500 if a face to face meeting is organised while a basic written response costs as little

  • Mayor to be questioned

    THE Mayor of London will be questioned later today about his spending plans for policing and transport over the next year. London Assembly members will be questioning Ken Livingstone about the 2008/09 budget, and how much of the £11bn he proposes to