The Latest News From In And Around Hampstead on May 20, 2012

Another Mobile Phone Shop! Although currently in Brazil, the Sub-editor has reminded me in no uncertain terms not to neglect my Hampsteardly duties.? Namely to inform you that there will be a demonstration outside the above shop front on Sunday the 27th of May 2012 at 11am. Those who have read the current edition of the Hampstead Village Voice will be aware that Sue of the Hampstead Health Shop was recently booted out for not keeping up to speed with ‘market forces’

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What Hampstead Really Needs is…

A St John’s Wood butcher and his wife have been charged with human trafficking offences after an Indian woman was allegedly trafficked into the UK from Hyderabad.

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St John’s Wood butcher charged with human trafficking and rape

The independence of school inspectors Ofsted has been questioned after it was revealed that a controversial Queen’s Park school inspection was conducted by the same company that supplied the school’s headteacher.

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Ofsted criticised after ‘conflict of interest’ at Queen’s Park school

The Department of Health has awarded ?400,000 for a ground-breaking mental health project that helps members of the armed forces and is run with a Hampstead clinic.

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Tavistock clinic’s mental health support project for military veterans wins £400,000

An investigation into the controversial closure of a GP surgery in Camden has heard that the handover of the practice from one private company to another may have been against the law.

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Council begin investigation into closure of popular Camden Road GP surgery

Sex is not what it seems in Brazil Far be it from me to blow my own trumpet – after all I can’t play trumpet and blowing ones own guitar would be, to say the least, somewhat precarious – but I shall be entertaining the good people of Lavras, Brazil this Friday by way of a small concert at the? Circuito Alternativa ?- a night club at the seedier end of the town. Contrary to what you may think, the above flyer does not mean yours truly will be having sex on the 18th of May at 23:30hrs.

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No Sex Please We’re Brazilian!

A Hampstead mother was left without water and claimed she was unable to leave her home after a utilities company dug a trench across her driveway.

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Mum ‘trapped in her own home’ after trench dug across her drive

Footballer Thierry Henry has been handed permission to level his ?10million Hampstead mansion and replace it – but the former Arsenal captain has scrapped plans for a 40ft fish tank.

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New Hampstead house for Thierry Henry but fish tank is scrapped

A body believed to be that of a missing boy has been found just days before his 18th birthday.

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Body of missing King’s Cross teenager found in River Thames

The mother of a Torchwood actor has told of the agony of imagining her missing son’s funeral after he disappeared from his West Hampstead home more than three weeks ago.

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Family heartache over mystery of missing Torchwood actor