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  • Send us your holiday snaps

    SEND us pictures of your summer holidays and you could win £100. With the schools broken up until September, many of you will be visiting relatives or having a great British seaside holiday. Others of you will be off to more tropical climes for a well

  • Week in review

    Award-winning News Shopper always brings you the biggest stories first. Here is a selection of the news hitting the headlines this week. Sheep sex suspect barred from farmyards A 26-year-old man has been bailed by police following allegations of sexual

  • Be better qualified at your BBQ

    HIGH temperatures forecast for this week mean residents could have the chance to enjoy barbecued food. But they are being warned to take care while cooking outdoors. The London Fire Brigade is urging would-be chefs to take care while cooking and to

  • DLR services suspended

    DOCKLANDS Light Railway (DLR) services between Lewisham and Canary Wharf are not running today. This is because work is taking place to make platforms longer so three carriage trains can be introduced from 2010. Replacement bus services are operating

  • Plumstead shooting: CCTV and cash reward

    CCTV images have been released in connection with the murder of a teenager in Plumstead last year. Police have also announced that there is a reward of £20,000 for information about the killing of Philip Poru. He was shot at around 10pm last October

  • On This Day

    On this day in... 1694 - The Bank of England was founded. 1940 - Bugs Bunny made his official debut in The Wild Hare. 1942 - Sweet rationing began in Britain. 1998 - Figures revealed that lager was outselling bitter in Britain. 2000 - The Millennium