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  • Booze man knifed friend

    An alcoholic who repeatedly stabbed a friend in the leg during a drunken Christmas Eve argument is facing jail after being convicted of unlawful wounding. Michael Crisp, 37, from Vicarage Road, Hounslow, plunged a knife into fellow drinker William Saville

  • From our files, 10, 25, 50 and 100 years ago

    Week of August 24 Ten years ago Residents of Twickenham's Eel Pie Island were forced from their bridge into a ferry after Richmond Council officers padlocked shut their lifeline to the mainland. The bridge was closed after its designers deemed it too

  • Nostalgia Notebook

    What was happening Ten, 20, 50 and 100 years in the Richmond and Twickenham Times and The Brentford, Chiswick and Isleworth Times? Type Nostalgia Notebook into our search engine for readers' memories, extracts from our files, pictures, news of reunions

  • Man wanted for indecent asault

    A woman was subject to an indecent assault while walking to her home in Cranford on Wednesday, August 9. The victim, a foreign student in her early twenties, got off the number 105 bus on the High Street shortly before midnight. She turned left at the

  • Medal winners get to bask in the glory

    Medal-winning sports stars from all over the borough gathered in Twickenham to receive the congratulations of a World Cup winner. Members of the team who represented Richmond in the London Youth Games and their coaches were at Harlequins Rugby Club for

  • Empty houses into homes

    Homeless borough families are reaping the benefits of a drive to renovate empty properties - with 95 being brought back into use in the last year alone. Richmond upon Thames Council's empty property scheme gives grants to owners of empty homes. The

  • Fifteen-year-old gets A-level pass

    A 15 year old from Hounslow Kabilan Malavarayan became one of the youngest students to pass an "A" level, with a grade C in computing. He gained his exam at Ryde Teaching Services based in Bushley, Hertfordshire in only nine months. Kabilan who wants