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  • 'Cowardly attack' on street cleaner

    A STREET cleaner needed stitches after he was attacked for telling a group of teenagers not to drop litter. The 61-year-old Harrow Council employee, who has not been named, was driving through Station Road on Monday afternoon when he saw a group of boys

  • Kris takes the Inca Trail

    A COUNCIL officer is leaving the concrete streets of Harrow far behind as she heads for the ancient civilisation of the Inca empire. Working in the Civic Centre, in Station Road, there is not much call for a safari hat - but now Kris Hunnisett, 45, of

  • Restored train back on track

    TRAINSPOTTERS were treated to the unusual sight of a 1921 Metropolitan Railway electric locomotive chugging along from Harrow-on-the-Hill to Amersham on Sunday. Named after a famous 18th Century actress, the Sarah Siddons and her four passenger carriages

  • Fury over 'rent-a-mob'

    THE charity behind the country's first state-funded Hindu school has been accused of using "dirty tricks" to gather support for its forthcoming planning application. The I-foundation, the driving force of the Krishna Avanti Primary School, is gearing

  • Packing my umbrella

    Saturday: My dear weather minions, I hope you are sitting down when you read this, for the shock may knock you down and render you speechless - the Weathergirl has been forced to drop her umbreralla and lock away her suncream. The big boss is fed up and

  • Historic garden blooms again

    PARK-LOVERS celebrated the restoration of much-loved corner of Harrow over the weekend. The George V Memorial Gardens, in Canons Park, were re-opened by Harrow's Mayor, Cllr Jean Lammiman, on Saturday afternoon, following extensive work to maintain one