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  • Euro MP backs a ban on monkey vivisection

    Hounslow's European MP has backed a ban on primate testing. Labour MEP Robert Evans, whose UK base is in Feltham, and three other MEPs started the campaign for a Europe-wide commitment to end experiments on primates. They join 179 Euro MPs from each

  • Rocket challenge sends some water up in the air

    With water falling continually from the sky recently some of it was put to good use in Teddington last week as the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) hosted the 10th annual Water Rocket Challenge. Under cloudy skies on the sports field of the laboratory

  • Teenager robbed blind

    A short sighted teenager was mugged and beaten on Saturday after his attackers knocked off his glasses. The 18-year-old man was walking home from the shops in Grove Park and had crossed the Grove Park Bridge when he was attacked at the junction of Sutton

  • Boy stabbed in the back

    A 15-year-old boy made his way to hospital by bus after being stabbed in the back with a 12in knife. The black teenager was attacked as he left the rear of the Treaty Centre in Hounslow with his friends. The victim told police that he was approached

  • Fury over CPZ in East Sheen

    Proposals to make residents pay to park outside their own homes have been met with furious opposition. Plans put forward by Richmond upon Thames Council could see the existing Controlled Parking Zone (CPZ) extended in East Sheen and one introduced in