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  • New Man U boss Moyes imprints identity by axing Fergies backroom staff

    New Manchester United boss David Moyes has started to imprints his own identity on the club by wielding the axe on former boss Sir Alex Ferguson's backroom staff at United. The former Everton boss booted out No.2 Mike Phelan, who had been Ferguson's right-hand man since 2008, and goalkeeping coach Eric Steele, as he reportedly wants his own assistants in Old Trafford, the Mirror reports. The ...

  • Exhausted Vettori faces black cloud over Test future after Leeds Test pull out

    According to the New Zealand media, master spinner Daniel Vettori has a black cloud hovering over his Test-playing future after he pulled out of the second test against England at Leeds, fearing that his body cannot cope with the strenuous exertion in the five days that will follow. According to Stuff.co.nz, although the former captain was poised to overtake Stephen Fleming for a record 112th ...

  • Prince William very excited about becoming dad

    Prince William is very excited at the prospect of becoming a father, the chief executive of a charity has revealed. "He is looking forward to being a dad. He's very excited about it," People magazine quoted Seyi Obakin, chief executive of the charity Centrepoint - whose aim is to help homeless young people -, as saying. During the secret visit to Centrepoint's Bruce House in London earlier ...

  • BBC editor apologises for Muslim remark

    Nick Robinson, the BBC's political editor, Friday apologised for directly quoting a Whitehall source who described the Woolwich killers as being "of Muslim appearance". Robinson said he was sorry for using the phrase, which "was both liable to be misinterpreted and to cause offence", during the BBC News at Six broadcast Thursday. The corporation received dozens of complaints after using the ...

  • Squatters removed from former wine shop

    Squatters were booted out of a former wine shop and office block in Teddington this morning, May 25. About 35 police officers swooped the building in the Causeway shortly before 6am and turfed out about 30 sqautters. Solicitors acting on behalf of Marcus King and Co, managing agents for the former Bottoms Up unit, served an eviction notice on the squatters this week. Notices were ...


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Untamed Heart

"Untamed Heart" is a modern romantic fable that tells the story of two broken people who find each other when they are most in need. It's touching in the simplicity of its age-old story, and heart-warming in the way it knows and loves its characters, who are blue-collar, common people normally overlooked or misrepresented in Hollywood. When we first meet Adam (Christian Slater) he is a young boy l ... ...

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  • Arson attack in Twickenham

    , Reporter A 30-year-old man was rescued from a top floor flat after it was set on fire by an arsonist last night, May 24. Two other men escaped the burning Victorian house in Clifden Road, Twickenham, before police arrested a suspected arsonist. Engines from Twickenham, Heston and Richmond were called to put out the fire at about 9pm and were on scene for two and a half hours. ...

  • Message is clear from Hillingdon people no Heathrow expansion

    Message is clear from Hillingdon people: no Heathrow expansion THE legitimacy of plans to expand Heathrow is in question after poll results showed Hillingdon residents are against the idea. More than 81,000 people voted in the council 'referendum', which asked if a new runway should be built and if more flights should be allowed to and from the airport. Two-thirds of ...

  • St Pauls Cray Waste4Fuel site must be cleared of combustible waste by June 10

    By Robert Fisk OWNERS of the recycling site in St Paul's Cray have just over a fortnight to clear it of all combustible waste. Waste4Fuel was served with an environmental permit suspension notice by the Environment Agency in the middle of last month, giving a clearance date of July 15. But the EA has now changed the date so the site in Cornwall Drive must be cleared by June ...

  • Young boy injured after car crashes into wall

    , Reporter A young boy was taken to hospital after a car crashed into a wall in Kingston yesterday. The 10-year-old was taken to Kingston Hospital with head injuries after a car crashed into a wall in Fairfield South at about 3.30pm on Friday, May 24. Veronika Zochova, a waitress from Fairfield South, into whose front wall the car crashed, said: "I didn't see the accident, ...

  • Bexley police appealing for help to find missing teenager

    Melissa Attard is missing from Belvedere Police are appealing for assistance to find 15-year-old Melissa Attard who is missing from Belvedere. Melissa left her home at around 8pm on May 1 and was last seen on Monday (May 20) when she was spotted in Hackney. She is described as white, 5ft 4in tall and of medium build. The teenager has brown eyes and long dark brown hair that she ...

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