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  • Both sides pleased after Harrow mosque protests

    BOTH anti-Islam and anti-fascist campaigners have declared victory after yesterday's protests outside Harrow Central Mosque. Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE) have posted a message on its website hailing the “success” of their demonstration

  • Mosque thanks community after peaceful protests

    A DAY of protests and counter protests over a mosque was hailed as a “victory for the people of Harrow” after there were no arrests. Anti-fascists and Islamophobics chanted slogans at each other from behind crowd control barriers and lines of police,

  • Barham Park could get £1m cash injection

    MORE than £1m could be pumped into a Sudbury park through the sale of two “surplus” buildings. Leading Brent councillors will tonight vote on plans to flog the properties, on the site of Barham Park, in Harrow Road, for an estimated £630,000. Brent

  • Signed Torres shirt at Kenton charity auction

    A LIVERPOOL football shirt signed by star striker Fernando Torres will be up for grabs at a charity auction in Kenton on Wednesday. Peaches Bar and Restaurant, in Kenton Road, will host the event, starting at 8pm, in aid of St Luke's Hospice. There

  • Menorah lit in Stanmore for start of Chanukah

    A CEREMONY was held in Stanmore yesterday to mark the start of the Jewish festival of Chanukah. Rabbis, councillors, and members of the Jewish Community gathered outside the offices of learning disability charity Norwood, in Stanmore Broadway

  • East Harrow polyclinic consultation underway

    RESIDENTS are being asked their views on the future of “below average” GP services in East Harrow. NHS Harrow, formerly Harrow PCT, is consulting on plans to turn Belmont Health Centre, in Kenton Lane, into a polyclinic, meaning it will open

  • Three rescued from fire at Kingsbury pub

    THREE people had to be rescued by firefighters after a flats above a pub in Kingsbury caught fire yesterday. Fire crews were called just before 9am to a blaze which had broken out above Hennessys pub, in Kingsbury Road. Two men and one

  • Anti-mosque group pledge never to return to Harrow

    THE leader of an anti-Islam protest group has promised never to hold another demonstration in Harrow again following yesterday's protests outside the borough's largest mosque. Stephen Gash, leader of Stop the Islamisation of Europe (SIOE),