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  • Countryside quango advises building on green belt

    Thousands of homes could be built on the green belt after the head of Natural England calls for a review of laws that safeguard the countryside around London. Large areas of rural Surrey would become prime ground for development if the law was relaxed

  • Businesses in the pink to support breast cancer research

    People across the region took part in Wear It Pink day on Friday to support the Breast Cancer Campaign and raise money for vital research into the disease. South Norwood's Simply Clear Finance, Worcester Park's Seanhannah hair salon and Epsom's Millets

  • Watch out for the new jailer

    Some time ago I realised that socialism, that superficially attractive doctrine, was turning this country into a gigantic prison camp, and the guards were the police. The camp commandant was Blair, but it was his court of ex-Marxist activists from the

  • South west London house prices through the roof

    House prices in south west London have sky-rocketed in the last year, outstripping London as a whole with price rises of up to 22 per cent. The average house in Wandsworth sold for £390,746 in September according to the latest figures from the Land Registry

  • Poll booth site is ‘cynical’

    The installation of a polling station in one ward for the exclusive use of residents in another was described as "political manoeuvering" when given the go ahead on Thursday. Spelthorne Borough Council agreed at the meeting that a new polling station

  • Hutchins tipped for the top

    British number one doubles star Jamie Murray is backing the new-look pairing of Wimbledon's Ross Hutchins and Norfolk's Jamie Auckland to break into the world's top 100 this season, writes Craig Chisnall. Hutchins, 22, is ranked 108th in the world, but

  • On this day...

    October 28th 1886 - The Statue of Liberty, designed by Auguste Bartholdi, was presented to America by France to mark the 100th anniversary of the declaration of Independence. 1948 - Sooty makes his first appearance, on BBC children's television. 1998