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‘This is our area - we have a right to live here’: Southall Black Sisters unite against ‘racial profiling’ with spontaneous protest
Friday 02 August 2013
In Southall, women take on border agency officers in a show of defiance
The only gay (retirement home) in the village
Wednesday 31 July 2013
At the Rainbow retirement village in France, residents will enjoy something perhaps for the first time: majority status. The development near Montpellier will be the country’s first such home for the lesbian, gay and transgender community.
iStyle: Resort to the web
Wednesday 24 July 2013
Forget trawling shops for holidaywear with this new crop of specialist e-tailers, says Emma Akbareian
Three centuries, two world wars and two continents: the amazing life of the world’s oldest woman, who has died at the age of 115
Tuesday 23 July 2013
Sant Kaur Bajwa was also officially the world's second oldest person
Welby denounces ‘evil’ and ‘inexcusable’ attacks on Muslims
Monday 22 July 2013
The Archbishop of Canterbury declared that he does not want to live in a “monocultural” society as he condemned “unacceptable” and “inexcusable” attacks on Muslims over recent weeks.
Heatwave alert: Met Office warns sun revellers as temperatures soar on hottest day of the year
Saturday 13 July 2013
Temperatures set to reach 32C in the south east
Kier wins contract to build new Broadmoor
Friday 12 July 2013
The construction company Kier is to build a new £115m high-security home for notorious murderers including the Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
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.
Two dead after 'suspicious' flat fire in west London
Wednesday 10 July 2013
Two others are being treated for multiple injuries as 58 firefighters battle the blaze in Hounslow
Third arrest in child sex abuse inquiry
Tuesday 09 July 2013
A former co-manager of a guest house at the centre of child abuse allegations in the 1980s has become the third person to be arrested after Scotland Yard opened a new inquiry last year.
Third arrest in Elm Guest House investigation into alleged paedophile ring
Tuesday 09 July 2013
Detectives investigating claims of historic child abuse at a guest house in the 1980s have made a third arrest, Scotland Yard said.
Earls Court Exhibition Centre - used for 1948 Olympic Games - to be razed
Thursday 04 July 2013
London Mayor Boris Johnson has approved plans to demolish the art deco Earls Court Exhibition Centre.
Nigel Farage faces further questions over Ukip’s vetting as two officials linked to far-right party rally
Friday 28 June 2013
Nigel Farage is facing further questions about Ukip’s vetting tonight after it emerged that two of his party officials attended a demonstration organised by a far-right group.
Half-brother of Tory MP John Whittingdale held in abuse inquiry
Wednesday 26 June 2013
Charles Napier arrested as part of investigation in to alleged abuse at the Elm Guest House in the 1980s
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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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