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Suspicious fire kills two in west London flat
Wednesday 10 July 2013
A fire that killed two people at a flat is being treated as suspicious, police said.
Gang violence ‘out of control’ in Feltham prison
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Security cameras captured premeditated attacks in the young offenders’ institution - with nearly two recorded every day
Man admits threatening to kill Prince Harry
Sunday 02 June 2013
A man has pleaded guilty to threatening to kill Prince Harry, police confirmed on Sunday.
League One Play-off Final: Yeovil and Brentford chase £3.1m cash injection
Saturday 18 May 2013
The Championship play-off is billed as the richest match in football but wealth is relative. For Brentford and Yeovil Town, the League One play-off has the potential to be just as transformative.
League One play-offs: Brentford and Yeovil Town book final date at Wembley with dramatic victories
Monday 06 May 2013
Brentford will face Yeovil Town in the League One play-off final at Wembley after the Bees' won a pulsating 5-4 penalty shoot-out against Swindon Town on Monday.
Swindon Town 1 Brentford 1 match report: Better late than never for Kevin O'Connor
Sunday 05 May 2013
Seven days too late as far as Brentford fans are concerned, but the London side's captain, Kevin O'Connor, last night converted an injury-time penalty in a key promotion encounter.
Brentford 0 Doncaster Rovers 1 match report: Sting in Rovers' tail stuns Bees
Sunday 28 April 2013
The Calvin Report: Doncaster crowned champions with 95th-minute winner — immediately after Brentford miss penalty
The Hounslow Slasher: 'every woman's nightmare' Sasha Masamba is jailed for 18 years
Friday 12 April 2013
A man dubbed the "Hounslow slasher" and described as a "every woman's nightmare" has been given an 18-year sentence.
Bunce on Boxing: Ricky Hatton on brink of promotion win with Sergey Rabchenko in post-fight career
Monday 25 March 2013
It is always a good week for British boxing when two real stars either get back in the ring or announce a return to the ring.
Conservative MP Mary Macleod to launch effort to end discrimination against women in the aristocracy
Saturday 23 March 2013
Conservative MP Mary Macleod is to launch a bid to end discrimination against women in the aristocracy.
Can Greg Dyke, the man who gave us Roland Rat, modernise the FA?
Thursday 21 March 2013
A football fan and canny operator, Greg Dyke could be a successful chairman, writes Glenn Moore
Former BBC boss Greg Dyke to become FA chairman
Thursday 21 March 2013
The 65-year-old replaces David Bernstein
John Terry and Rafael Benitez say they are best of friends
Sunday 17 February 2013
Reports claimed the Chelsea duo had fallen out
Terry and manager say they are best of friends
Sunday 17 February 2013
Rafa Benitez and John Terry have both dismissed as "rubbish" reports that they have fallen out over the interim manager's non-selection of the Chelsea captain.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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