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  • Drug addict jailed for 'nasty' robbery

    A CRACK cocaine addict behind an “unpleasant and nasty” knife-point robbery on a taxi driver was handed a six year jail term today. Tony Gritton held up 37-year-old Rahel Noristani with a six inch blade in Stonegrove, Edgware, on May 16, taking

  • Transport police to give safety advice

    RESIDENTS can meet the bobbies who police the borough's Tubes and buses tomorrow. Officers from the British Transport Police together with the Met police safer transport and neighbourhoods teams will be in the town centre giving advice on how

  • Harrow Borough boss accuses referee of losing control

    Harrow Borough manager David Howell accused the referee of losing control in their 3-2 home defeat to Hendon on Monday. Boro were leading 2-1 with less than 20 minutes remaining when visiting manager Gary McCann berated the referee for failing to give

  • Support Oxfam in forest walk

    Oxfam supporters in Harrow and Brent can spend a great day out in the beautiful Hertfordshire countryside for the Herts Hike 2010. Five routes, ranging from 3.5 miles to 20 miles, all start in Sandridge and pass through the new Heartwood Forest. Walkers

  • Dandara decision gives Harrow town centre a promising future

    The planning inspector’s decision about the Dandara site gives Harrow a great opportunity to transform the town centre into a distinctive and attractive environment. Harrow’s vision for the town centre (now part of the intensification area) is for

  • Brent Council's away day must not go ahead

    Many residents are rightly outraged that Brent Council’s ruling Labour executive agreed to an away day involving an overnight stay in a plush hotel in Buckinghamshire to plan multi-million pound cuts to Brent’s budget, and that they have already used

  • IT strategy: Figures prompt more questions

    In his recent letter, Councillor Graham Henson gave the impression that the renewal of Harrow Council’s IT strategy has been spearheaded by him and his Labour colleagues (‘Modernisation is now essential’, Your Views, August 12). In fact, 75 per cent

  • Miliband's thank you letter to Harrow Times readers

    DAVID Miliband has thanked supporters in the borough through a letter to the Harrow Times. The Labour leadership candidate promotes himself as the politician to win back the votes the party lost and to challenge David Cameron at Prime Minister's

  • Brigade warns of kitchen fire threat

    HARROW's top fireman is urging residents to watch out for kitchen fires days after a blaze gutted part of a Hatch End restaurant. The London Fire Brigade revealed the borough was hit by 310 kitchen fires in the past five years and almost 60