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Governor General Sir Patrick Allen and Lady Allen visited a secondary school in Brixton, South London, England, last week Friday at the start of a four-day visit to the United Kingdom .

Wanstead engineer and independent businessman John Battams with his solar panels on the roof of Cambridge Nursing Home in Wanstead.

A small Comox Valley winery is proving that British Columbia's best wines aren't always synonymous with the more established wineries of the Okanagan Valley.

To mark both occasions the Underground has issued a special poster showing the Tube map with its lines represented as common and unusual flowers.

Britain's Prince William has joined his father Prince Charles in urging global action to tackle the illegal poaching of wild animals.

A vigilante band of Jewish crime fighters helped police detain two men who are appearing in court today charged with burglary offences.

CORNER BROOK Matthew Krizan, now an award-winning chef, dreams of being able to open a restaurant in his former hometown of Corner Brook.

A FORMER director and club accountant of Chester City FC has been charged with drug dealing following a huge police operation.

MAY 20: A water feature is displayed on a stand on a stand at the Chelsea Flower Show on May 20, 2013 in London, England.

The London Underground came into public ownership in 1933. Above, the Piccadilly Line extension in the 1930s.

Parents are celebrating after the Department for Education formally backed plans for a free school to be built in East Finchley.

The head of cash-strapped Wandsworth Council pocketed more than A 200,000 of taxpayers' money, making him the highest paid permanent chief executive in London.

The closing shot in episode seven of Mr. Selfridge had to look the part of 1909 London.

A Rickmansworth charity manager is preparing to undertake his fifth road race to raise funds for a national deaf healthcare charity.

A Whitley man has been jailed for 15 years after a jury convicted him on Thursday of hiding a stash of guns and ammunition.

The proposed limit, which has previously been rejected twice by the authority, will be applied to all council-maintained roads in Haringey.

'Even if Justin Welby does turn out to be the church's Gorbachev, it looks as if it really needs someone who can work miracles instead.' Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA "I can show you why the Church of England is completely fucked," said the vicar.

A blue plaque in tribute to comedy double act Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise has been unveiled at the studio where much of their best work was shot.

Health workers, trade unionists, campaigners and politicians marched from Jubilee Gardens in South Bank and over Waterloo bridge, where they unfurled a "Save the NHS" banner.

A rising star in Britain's Labour Party, described by some as the "British Barack Obama," Chuka Umunna urged the United Kingdom to more aggressively forge ties with West Africa's fast-growing economies.