Week in pictures


The week in pictures
  • Jay Jay the albino hedgehog, who is blind, has taken up residency at Sue Kidger’s animal sanctuary in Twickenham. Picture: Hakan Yazici
  • Love is in the air for Sunti, the first binturong born in the UK for a decade, following the arrival of a hunky Parisian partner. An 18-month-old male binturong called Watt arrived from France this week, just in time for Valentine’s Day, to start a bree
  • On Valentine’s Day runners showed their love for charity in the London Love Run around Battersea Park.
  • Sarah Thiele found her lost engagement ring, which was buried in the snow for four days, after a volunteer from the local community searched for it with a metal detector.
  • Michael Jordan, a football coach, has been cleared of murdering Matthew Demko (pictured), a former public schoolboy who became embroiled in dealing drugs.
  • Murdered boxer John ‘King’ Abbey (left) was barely 24 hours away from his third fight, which would have earned him his UK citizenship, before he was stabbed to death at a Croydon bus stop.
  • Heavy rains caused flooding in Stanwell, south-west London. Chesterton Drive and Milton Gardens were among the many streets under water. Picture: Hakan Yazici
  • The snow two weeks ago may have brought London to a standstill, but - as these pictures of a street in West Norwood show - you can always trust your milkman to deliver on time. Sent in by a reader
  • Mark Gray, who risked his own life to save a dog that plunged into a frozen pond near Ham Common, warned others not to follow his example. Picture: David Dyson
  • Sam Rowley, 14, won the under 18-prize in the International Wildbird Photographer of the Year competition for this image of two house sparrows on a metal roof at the British Wildlife Centre in Surrey.

The week in pictures

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The week in pictures

South west London from 9 to 15 January 2009.

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