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· Tooting and Balham Sea Cadets will be providing a helping hand at the checkouts to Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store customers by bag-packing on Saturday 20^th December 2014

· Customers can choose to make a donation on the day

· All money raised will be going to Tooting and Balham Sea Cadets to be used for vital funds to support the Charity to help provide opportunities for their cadets.

Customers at Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store are set to be offered a helping hand at the till by a local cause. Volunteers from Tooting and Balham Sea Cadets will be providing a bag-packing service for customers on Saturday and a few more dates, please ask in store for more details, to raise money for vital funds to support the Charity to help provide opportunities for their cadets.

The charity, situated in 89 Mellison Road, has been supported by Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store for many years.

Published: 28 December 2014

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House costs in five urban communities around Britain have developed at a speedier rate than the capital's cooling property advertise lately, new information shows.

Property costs in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Southampton, Bristol and Birmingham have expanded at a quicker pace than London in the three months to November, as per the most recent Hometrack UK Cities House Price Index.

On the off chance that house costs in London developed by 0.5 every penny in the quarter – the same rate of development as Manchester, Portsmouth and Belfast - Edinburgh overwhelmed the capital with the greatest climb at 1.8 every penny amid the same period.

Glasgow and Southampton likewise saw house costs climbing speedier than London, with a 0.9 every penny climb, while Bristol and Birmingham both recorded a 0.6 every penny inspire, Hometrack said.

Published: 19 December 2014

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A British student has raised thousands of pounds for a "homeless hero" who offered her his last few coins to get home at night after she lost her bank card.

The online fundraising page reached over £16,500 ($26,000, 20,500 euros) on Wednesday after student Dominique Harrison-Bentzen's campaign went viral.

"After losing my bank card and having no money in the early hours, a homeless man approached me with his only change of three pounds and insisted I took it to pay for a taxi," Harrison-Bentzen wrote on the page.

"I didn't take the money but I was touched by such a kind gesture from a man who faces ignorance every day."

Published: 17 December 2014

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· St. Stevens Church Choir Group entertained customers with a selection of Christmas songs at Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store.

The aisles of Sainsbury’s in Nine Elms Temp Store were filled with music and festive spirit over the weekend as the St. Stevens Church Choir Group performed a selection of Christmas songs and carols.

The group was invited by colleagues to entertain customers with classics such as Away in a manger, Silent Night.

Sainsbury’s stores across the UK were taking part in the nationwide sing along and inviting their Local Charity partners to take part and kick start the Christmas celebrations.

Andy Robins, Store Manager for Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp, said: “The St. Stevens Choir Group has been fantastic and created such a Christmassy atmosphere in store. I’m going to be humming the tunes all week.”

Published: 16 December 2014

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Six men have been accused with terror and fraud offenses, Scotland Yard have said.

The men, five of whom are from London, were charged after captures by counter-fear police in the Kent port of Dover toward the end of a month ago and in the capital not long ago.

The men were because of show up at Westminster officers court on Monday.

Published: 15 December 2014

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A sponsored walk from Sainsbury’s Nine Elms Temp Store to Trinity Hospice Branch and then back has been organized by Mohammed Abdul, the store’s PR Ambassador, to raise vital funds for the hospice.

On Thursday 13^th November 2014, managers from the store Damien Brown (HR Manager), Waqas Butt (Manager) and store colleagues Naana Turkson, Michelle Bate, Janet Carroll, Dominica O Donoghue and Omar Wellington took part in a four mile walk from Sainsbury’s Nine Elms to Trinity Hospice Branch in Clapham and then back to the store and raised over £580.00.

At the Trinity hospice branch they where met by Ben Morrison Trinity Hospice Fundraiser, where he spoke to the Sainsbury’s staff and told them about how Trinity Hospice is providing care and the money raised during the sponsored walk will help the continued care for those in need.

All of the money raised is being used to help fund Trinity’s nurses to provide compassionate end of life care to over 2,000 patients each year. They care for people in Central and South West

London communities with many different types of illness. Some will have cancer, others will have long term conditions such as heart failure, lung or neurological conditions.

Published: 13 December 2014

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Three individuals have been accused after terror captures in east London.

Tayyab Al-Riaz, 33, and Valentina Miu, 30, both from East Ham in east London, will show up at Westminster Magistrates' Court today after their captures on Saturday.

Muhammad Saleem, 28, from Abbey Wood, south east London, will likewise show up in court accused of having or controlling an article for utilization in extortion.

Al-Riaz was accused of ownership of false character reports with uncalled for plan and additionally a tally of ownership of articles for utilization in extortion.

Miu was accused of ownership of articles for utilization in extortion, and in addition an offense under the Proceeds of Crime Act.

The charges take after an arrangement of counter terrorism strikes the nation over the previous week.

First light attacks in London on Thursday saw a 33-year-old man captured on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, readiness or actuation of demonstrations of terrorism and a 40-year-old man was captured on suspicion of intrigue to have and supply deceitful reports.

The 33-year-old stays in guardianship at a focal London police headquarters after analysts were given an expansion to question him until Thursday.

Quests occurring at four private addresses in south-east London and one in Stoke, regarding these captures, have now finished up, the Metropolitan Police said.

Published: 08 December 2014

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Alex Salmond, who quit as Scotland's first minister after losing the independence referendum, announced Sunday he will run for a seat in the British parliament in the May general election.The seat he is bidding for was won in the 2010 general election by the centrist Liberal Democrats, the junior partners in the governing coalition led by Prime Minister David Cameron, with a 14-percent lead over the left-wing SNP.

Salmond's party currently holds six of Scotland's 59 seats in the 650-member British parliament.

Salmond, who led the campaign for Scotland to leave the United Kingdom, said he wanted to return to politics in London to "make sure that Scotland gets what it's promised" from the post-referendum settlement.

Scotland voted by 55 percent to 45 percent to remain part of the UK in the September 18 referendum.

Salmond announced the day afterwards that he would step down as first minister in the devolved Edinburgh parliament, and as leader of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP).

Eleven weeks on, the 59-year-old said would bid for a seat in the British parliament, after previously serving as an MP from 1987 to 2010.

"With so much commitment among the people and with so much at stake for Scotland, I think it's impossible to stand on the sidelines," he told a local constituency meeting in Scotland.

Published: 07 December 2014

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Hate criminal acts persuaded by bigotry, religion and homophobia have fundamentally expanded in London over the previous year, another report has cautioned.

By and large, the quantity of contempt unlawful acts reported in the capital rose by more than 20 every penny since last October, to a sum of 11,400.

Confidence related offenses alone are up by 23 every penny, to 1,048, with a record number of occurrences in July, the Evening Standard reported. Episodes against incapacitated individuals are up by 12.5 every penny, and supremacist and religious wrongdoing has spiked by a fifth.

The larger part of contempt wrongdoing victimized people are male, and are matured somewhere around 20 and 49. Then, most wrongdoers are male and matured somewhere around 20 and 29, around 45 every penny of who are white and British.

The figures were distributed today in a report on London Mayor Boris Johnson's new procedure to diminish abhor wrongdoing in London, and connections the ascent in assaults to national and universal occasions.

Police and LGBT group gatherings concur that the ascent is because of individuals being all the more ready to approach and report episodes, instead of a honest to goodness increment in occurrences of scorn wrongdoing.

Anyhow the report by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime highlights that abhor unlawful acts are massively under-reported, maybe on the grounds that general society is alerts that the police won't explore, or for apprehension of retaliations. Scientists accept that just around 43 every penny of offenses are accounted for to police, and say the issue is more intense among new vagrant groups, for example, Roma Gypsies.

Upwards of 95 every penny of contempt criminal acts were hostile to Semitic in nature after Israel's intrusion of Gaza. Also emulating the homicide of fighter Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London a year ago, the report likewise uncovers a spike in against Muslim episodes.

Detest unlawful acts focusing on the lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender (LGBT) group have climbed to upwards of 100 cases a month, with a month to month increment of 21.5 every penny since March 2014, as per the Metropolitan Police.

Published: 03 December 2014

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More confirmation has risen that proposes London house value development is situated to abate strongly while the national business sector moderates.

Of the UK's 20 biggest urban communities, 14 are presently enlisting house value in­fla­tion beneath the national normal for the UK, as per information discharged today by property market investigators Hometrack.

In the course of recent months, London has seen the greatest addition – 17.3 for every penny. In any case, an alternate set of information discharged today recommends the London business sector is moderating after a year of blast. In London the extent of families reporting that the estimation of their property climbed in November was 62.7 for every penny, down from 73.3 for every penny a month ago, as indicated by domain specialists Knight Frank and money related data firm Markit.

A house value slant file delivered by Markit kept on intimating development was moderating.

Published: 26 November 2014

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