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Gown and out!

The career of a disgraced politician is in tatters after she was forced to quit her role on an influential board yesterday evening. Bertha Joseph stepped down from her position as deputy chairwoman of the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority after...

Cops make witness plea

A WITNESS appeal has been made after a passenger allegedly assaulted a Police Community Support Officer during a ticket dispute at a Tube station. The 25-year-old was rushed to hospital with minor cuts and brushings after he was attacked as Neasden Tube...

Hassop hassle

A GROUP of traders fear they will be driven out of business after council chiefs put the brakes on parking outside their premises. The owners of car repair garages in Hassop Road, Cricklewood, are expecting a bumpy ride after Brent Council introduced the...

Requesting a Dunn deal

A PROPOSAL to transform green open spaces into communal allotments for residents has been put forward by a councillor, writes Kate Ferguson. Anthony Dunn, a Liberal Democrat councillor for Kilburn, has written to the head of the Parks Service at Brent Co...

Recycling is too expensive

BUSINESSES have raised concerns that tight finances are making it more and more difficult to recycle. And they called for Brent Council to provide a commercial recycling collection service as some other London boroughs do. Pub owner, John McCooke, who...

KOVE love their national award!

A COMMUNITY group dedicated to improving life for elderly residents has won a national award for their inspirational work. Kilburn Older Voice Exchange (KOVE), at the Kingsgate Resource Centre in Palmerston Road, Brondesbury, was given a £500 grant from...

Silence is golden for Tamsin

TEAMWORK on buses may be the only way to stop unruly passengers from playing loud music. New independent parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, Tamsin Omond recently showed the value of democracy in tackling the problem. She said she took a...

Heavenly help in church plan

PLANS for a heavenly attempt to tackle climate change have been put forward. The first vicarage to meet the government s climate change requirements is to be built near Wembley Central station. The zero-carbon vicarage has received the green light from...

Winning ways!

IF SOMEONE tells you they have played for a first division football club, travelled the world on a double-decker bus with the British athletics team, and released a chart topping EP, your first instinct is to think they are pulling your leg. But that i...

‘Transsexual countess’ jailed

A TRANSSEXUAL and self-styled countess has been jailed for four and a half years for conning the council out of hundreds of thousands of pounds in benefits. Marianne Jonson, of Rawlings Crescent, Wembley, was found guilty of 23 counts of fraud at Harro...

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Sport

Late entrant Hazeley's on a high

QUEEN S Park Harriers sprinter Richmond Hazeley switched to the high jump to claim a shock county indoor title at Edmonton on Sunday. Hazeley, who usually runs the 100m and 200m, filled in for QPH in the senior high jump at the Middlesex Indoor Championsh...

Willesden athletes are running out of cash

By Ben Kosky WILLESDEN S cash-starved junior squad are set to be disbanded later this year – despite claiming their first ever gold medal at the National Indoor Championships. Sprinter Marilyn Nwawullor stormed to gold in the 60m at Birmingham, while two...

Willesden squad in running battle

By Ben Kosky WILLESDEN S junior athletes are aiming to strike gold at the National Schools Indoor Championships this weekend – in more ways than one. The squad includes four medallists from the recent South of England Championships – sprint pair Lumar Sy...

No fears for Tear in ABA success

TOMMY Tear defeated old rival Ryan Taylor to reach the London ABA finals for the first time on a good night for Dale Youth ABC. Tear lost out to the Haringey Police light-welterweight in the North West London division two years ago, but gained his revenge...

Seven go in search of ABA glory

DALE Youth ABC are confident of success when the senior ABA Championships get under way on Thursday night – despite lacking a contender for this year s middleweight crown. The Ladbroke Grove club enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the national middleweight tit...

Groves gets Commonwealth title shot

HAMMERSMITH S George Groves has his sights set on his first professional title after announcing he will fight for the Commonwealth super-middleweight crown next month. Groves will take on reigning champion, Ghanaian Charles Adamu, on the undercard of Davi...

Unlucky Steve'O slips up in semis

By Ziad Chaudry FORMER Dale Youth star Steve O Meara feels bad luck and tactical errors cost him Prizefighter glory – and his unbeaten record – at a packed York Hall. O Meara s 10-fight unbeaten record was ended when he narrowly lost a closely-contested s...

Hooks title rubbed out after York Hall ruck

HOOKS ABC s first ever London title has been expunged from the record after organisers opted to scrap the capital s NACYP tournament. Andrew Smith thought he had become the Park Royal club s first London champion when he gained a majority decision against...

Copland kids can follow Raheem

By Ben Kosky QPR pocketed half a million pounds from Raheem Sterling s move to Liverpool – and the teenage sensation s former classmates may benefit as well. The 15-year-old attacking midfielder has now left Copland Community College, Wembley, to begin a...

Tigers boss Valdas pleased by progress

By Ben Kosky KINGSBURY London Tigers boss Valdas Dambrauskas has conceded promotion is probably out of reach due to his side s daunting fixture backlog. The Tigers, whose 3-1 win over Biggleswade on Saturday nudged them into the top half of the Spartan So...

Up Pohnpei - it's Paul's island dream

By Ian Cooper HE S THE youngest international manager in the world, travelling 8,000 miles to coach the lowest-ranked country in the world – to say Paul Watson likes a challenge is an understatement. When the Hammersmith football journalist announced in J...

Hayden boosts Parnell's prospects

By Dave Brennan PARNELL S have pulled off a coup ahead of the new season by bringing in Derek Hayden, who was Carlow s footballer of the year in 2008. The Kingsbury-based club will be looking for Hayden to spearhead their assault on the intermediate champ...

Fox has scent of an Olympic chance

By Ian Cooper HAMPSTEAD & Westminster s Dan Fox is back on home soil after helping England to an historic World Cup semi-final – and now he has his eye on the Olympics. Fox and his team-mates swept aside hosts India and eventual winners Australia en route...

Naylor double sets up H&W success

WILL Naylor struck twice in the opening 20 minutes as Hampstead & Westminster dominated the early stages to beat Beeston 3-0 at Paddington Rec. Having lost 5-2 in their previous encounter with Beeston, H&W hit the ground running with three early goals to...

Cosmos living the life of Riley

DAN Riley scored a hat-trick of tries as the Cosmos turned in a classy performance to beat Old Abbotstonians 58-10 for their biggest league win of the season. Kilburn seized the initiative within the first five minutes as tight head Ehi Alongi drove over...

Numbers don't add up for Kilburn

By Larry Porter COSMOS failed to capitalise on a numerical advantage as they lost 27-18 to Old Haberdashers in a bad-tempered clash at Gladstone Park. The visitors had two men yellow-carded, with only one against Kilburn – but looked better drilled as the...

What's On

Bank clerk found dead

A bank clerk who went on the run after being found guilty of fleecing £120,000 from two elderly customers was found dead this morning (Wednesday). Bindi Dhanji, of North Circular Road, Neasden, absconded hours before she was due to be sentenced for thef...

Bioshock 2

A spooky and slightly unnerving experience set approximately 10 years after the events of the original brings a worthy addition to the first person genre in the water drenched sequel Bioshock 2. This atmospheric follow up takes gamers back into the halls...

Mass Effect 2

IT S hard to know where to place Mass Effect 2, whether it s to suggest a space opera in the mould of the Halo franchise or instead to describe it as something of a dark sci-fi thriller that resembles a movie. Perhaps it s just the believable, interactiv...

Halo 3: ODST

AFTER being dragged into the slipstream of a spaceship your capsule has crash landed on the planet s surface. You ve lost your crack Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST) squad, some of the toughest and bravest soldiers of the UNSC. Now you must search fo...

Assassin’s Creed II

It s a hard life being the son of a rich banker in 15th century Florence: chasing girls, parties and a fight with rival gangs, but there s something of a surprise in store for the soon to be droves of Assassin s Creed II fans. Those devotees of the firs...

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

WITH the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 only the naive will fail to recognise computer games as the dominant art form of contemporary culture. Many will argue that opera, theatre and visual arts remain among the guiding lights of our aesthetic...

Borderlands

Acres of post-apocalyptic wasteland roll out before your battleworn, rusty rifle before a monowheel droid hands over a HUD display implant chip for monitoring health and bleeps that you should follow it. Most notable, is the radical, manga-styled, hand dr...

Dragon Age: Origins

TAKE a deep breath as you fire up this deepest and darkest of games that as readily explores the realms of dreams as it does nightmares. Dragon Age: Origins is everything any fan of the role-playing genre has been swearing an oath of allegiance for these...

Forza Motorsport 3

THAT old sims vs arcade debate over what s best about driving games has been beautifully highlighted once more with the release of Forza Motorsport 3. And while I ll freely admit to being more inclined towards your trading paint, smash and grab racer w...

Hands well worth the wait

by Tim Cole It feels like we have been waiting an eternity to get our hands on Little Boots debut album. For everyone who watched in awe as 24-year-old Victoria Hesketh commanded the attention of the music world with a performance for Jo...

From Russia with love

by Andy McCorkell Russian fairy tales really do happen it seems though it appears that one is just about to conjure up a darker and more interesting tale. And after lighting up Kilburn High Road, with a stunning performance at a recent op...