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The week in pictures
  • Wiggle, a kune pig at Battersea Zoo, is besotted with her donkey neighbour Smokey. But sadly the feeling’s not mule-tual.
  • John Nii Kacsu Abbey, 26, a boxer, was stabbed to death at a Croydon bus stop in front of his three-year-old daughter while making his way to hospital to visit his wife and newborn son.
  • Carol Farrow sported a Medusa hat when the UK Cold Water Swimming Championship came to Tooting Bec Lido this week.
  • This photo, taken secretly, exposed benefit fraudster David Port, who claimed £100,000 after duping doctors into believing that he was confined to a wheelchair. However, he was pictured hanging a heavy gate in his garden.
  • Daragh Horgan, a former investment banker from Wandsworth, has fulfilled his boyhood dream and raised more than £20,000 for charity by conquering the South Pole.
  • Alan Winkworth, the Mayor of Epsom, has given up his duties for a month amid complaints that he was drunk at official engagements. Epsom and Ewell Council said he stepped down due to “ill-health”.
  • Wole Adesemoye, who won stick fighting and buffalo racing contests to earn the title of Last Man Standing in a BBC Three endurance show, started a personal training course at Kingston College this week.
  • The National Trust needs at least £2 million to save the rich wood carvings in the Wandsworth home of the Kenyan poet Khadambi Asalache, who died in 2006.
  • Is this more evidence of UFO activity above Merton? Local resident Nicholas Fitter took this picture of an object with “tentacles that appeared squid like” from his flat in Broadway.
  • Reader Joy Thompson sent in this sunset picture taken from her upstairs bedroom window in Hampton Hill.

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The week in pictures

South west London from 26 to 30 January 2009.

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