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Son quizzed over stab death of 100 year old woman
Thursday 25 February 2010
Murder squad detectives were today questioning a man who cared for his 100-year-old mother full-time after she was found stabbed to death.
Son held over fatal stabbing of 100-year-old
Wednesday 24 February 2010
Detectives arrested the son of a 100-year-old woman today after she was found stabbed to death at her home.
Playtime with mum: A new approach to treating autism
Thursday 17 September 2009
A new method of tackling autism involves showing mums how to engage with their children. Liz Lightfoot looks at how an apparently simple solution works miracles
Alice-Azania Jarvis: Lottery ticket is a sound investment as I'm sure to win
Saturday 01 August 2009
In The Red
Alexa Chung:'Want to know the next big catwalk trends? Hit Tesco in Bethnal Green'
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Girl About Town
£500m deal for Crossrail station
Wednesday 24 December 2008
A £16 billion rail project received a welcome boost today when a deal to build one of the link's new stations was reached.
Monteverdi Choir/ English Baroque Soloists/ Gardiner, Christ Church Spitalfields
Thursday 18 December 2008
Over at Christ Church Spitalfields, as part of the annual Winter Festival, John Eliot Gardiner has been serialising Bach's Christmas Oratorio.
<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/independent/2008/09/zaha-hadids-par.html" target="_blanK">London Fashion Week: Zaha Hadid's party at The Wapping Project</a>
Friday 19 September 2008
The great and the glamorous gathered last night in Wapping's formerP1010205_3 hydraulic power station to celebrate the unlikely collaboration between award-winning, experimental architect Zaha Hadid and eco jelly-shoe giant Melissa.
An arresting presence in the classroom
Wednesday 30 July 2008
One of the first schools to have a police officer stationed on site was George Green, a 1,300-pupil comprehensive on the Isle of Dogs in Tower Hamlets, east London.
Dante Quartet / Van Dyk, Christ Church, Spitalfields, London
Wednesday 26 December 2007
Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor and T S Eliot's Four Quartets are both majestic works that speak with oracular force, and there is evidence of a historical link. At the time this poem-sequence was germinating in Eliot's mind, he was listening to Beethoven's work, and wondering whether he might be able to get something of its "heavenly gaiety", its sense of relief after immense suffering, into verse at some future date.
Labour in third place as Respect wins council seat
Saturday 31 July 2004
The Anti-War Respect Coalition was yesterday celebrating an electoral breakthrough in the East End of London after winning its first council seat.
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Man and woman arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder victim of Woolwich machete attack, named as Drummer Lee Rigby
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'Sickening, deluded and unforgivable': Horrific attack brings terror to London’s streets
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Grace Dent: I’m not sure how these people can avoid being called ‘bigots’. And the more ‘civilised’, the worse they are
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Woolwich murder: They killed, then they performed - these men should be starved of our attention
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Woolwich attack: The EDL will seek to exploit this evil crime for their own evil ends
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