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  • First Eurostar leaves St Pancras

    A high-speed, intercontinental rail service has now moved to a Metropolitan line station. The first Eurostar train to leave St Pancras departed today, November 14, at 11.01am to the sounds of the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra. The move, from

  • Tory leader proposal supported

    REFERENDUMS on rises in council tax would be "a move in the right direction", according to a leading Harrow councillor. Councillor David Ashton, portfolio holder for finance on Harrow Council, supported a proposal by Conservative Party leader David Cameron

  • Assault and robbery in Wembley

    POLICE are hunting for a pair of teenagers who led an assault and robbery of a man in Wembley. The 18-year-old was walking home in Roundtree Road when he was surrounded by a gang of seven men. One of the men, who is 5ft 10inches tall and was wearing

  • Dinner lady starts old school games

    A HARROW dinner lady has brought old fashioned games to the internet generation at a local school. Jackie Harris, 47, who works at Weald Middle School, in Robin Hood Drive, Harrow, has been teaching jacks and two-balls to pupils in years 4, 5 and 6 since

  • Bag ban proposal welcomed

    THE chairman of the London Assembly's environment committee has commented on a proposed ban on free plastic shopping bags ahead of tomorrow's debate on the issue. His comments come in response to a proposal by London Councils, which represents local

  • Cannabis plants seized

    POLICE seized more than 200 cannabis plants from a three-bedroom house owned by a Harrow woman, after an anonymous tip off. The electricity supply to the house in Swallow Drive, Northolt, had been tampered with allowing the occupiers to get electricity