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| FLATS
FIRE TRAGEDY |
GRIEVING relatives have paid touching tributes to a disabled
woman who died after a killer blaze swept through her home on Saturday
morning.
Multiple Sclerosis sufferer Clare Hope, 62, who had been restricted
to a wheelchair for the last six years, was caught in a ferocious
fire at her fourth-floor flat in Tonbridge House in Tonbridge Street,
King’s Cross.
The tragedy has revived concern over fire safety in council-owned
blocks – many of which do not have smoke detectors.
During a frantic early-hours rescue attempt, carer Kim Bui and a
team of more than 20 fire fighters helped Ms Hope out of the burning
building. |
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| RECYCLING
OUTRAGE |
INVESTIGATIONS by the Islington Tribune have revealed that newspapers,
bottles and tins diligently separated by environmentally concerned
homeowners pass through a chain of at least five stages and three
separate companies – each of which take a cut of council tax
payer cash – before it ends up in Indonesia.
Our inquires follow the damaging allegations in a BBC TV documentary
on Monday which described how waste for recycling has ended up in
a lorry container in Jakarta.
The Lib Dems were last night (Thursday) fighting a rearguard action
against a “scandal” which could prove enormously damaging. |
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| A
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM |
THE first person to be convicted for holding an illegal demonstration
in Whitehall is preparing to appeal her conviction and challenge
the law in the High Court.
On Wednesday Maya Evans, 25, found herself on the front pages, hailed
for standing up for the freedom of speech, after she was found guilty
of taking part in an illegal demonstration when she stood opposite
Downing Street, just yards from the Cenotaph, reading out the names
of British soldiers killed in Iraq.
Ms Evans and her colleague, Milan Rai, 40, were arrested within
10 minutes and at Bow Street Magistrates’ Court District Judge
Caroline Tubbs ruled that she had committed an offence but let her
off with a conditional discharge and £100 costs. |
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