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  • Wife’s asbestos appeal after ‘fit’ husband dies

    The widow of a Mortlake brewery worker is appealing for any of his former colleagues to get in touch. Albert Thatcher, who died aged 67 from mesothelioma, a form of cancer linked to asbestos, spent most of his life in Mortlake before retiring in 2006

  • Young offenders get new jail wing under scheme

    First-time convicts at Feltham Young Offender Institution will get their own jail wing, in a bid to separate them from career criminals. The youths will be kept apart from other inmates in the hope it will stop them from re-offending when they are

  • ‘Kids need someone to be there for them'

    Two Hounslow parents who have devoted their lives to fostering troubled children are calling for more people to step up to the challenge. Marianne and Paul Davies fostered 50 children for more than 12 years alongside their own children and are calling

  • ‘He was the man who broke my body and ruined my life’

    A father-of-four has spoken of his relief after the man who brutally stabbed him 15 times on the streets of Hounslow finally admitted his guilt. Mateen Butt, 39, almost died after the attack near his home in Brabazon Road, when 21-year-old Darryl Paul