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SIX train passengers were caught with cannabis in two hours by police officers searching customers at Harrow and Wealdstone Station.
Specialist dog handlers and a drugs dog joined British Transport Police's Bakerloo Line North Neighbourhood Policing Team to carry out the operation between 7pm and 9pm at the Tube stop in The Bridge, Wealdstone, on January 21.

KRISHNAPALLAI Rajamohan, 50, of Locket Road, Harrow, admitted to possession of an illegal pit bull terrier type dog at Harrow Magistrates' Court on Thursday (21-01) and was fined £250 with costs of £250.
The dog - which has to be tattooed and microchipped and kept on a lead and a muzzle at all times in public - will be destroyed under the Dangerous Dogs Act in two months unless Rajamohan obtains an exemption certificate.

WEALDSTONE'S FC ground will be called St George's Stadium until the end of the season after one of Harrow's two shopping centres won the naming rights in a raffle.
Dozens of local businesses took part in a draw - held before the club's postponed fixture with Ashford Town - to have their company's title adopted by the 2,387-capacity Grosvenor Vale in Ruislip.

A TEENAGER was stabbed in the back in a public park in Wealdstone and now detectives are asking for the public's help in finding his attackers.
The victim, 17, was set upon in Byron Recreation Ground behind Harrow Leisure Centre in Christchurch Avenue on Saturday evening at 8.30pm.

Police seek witnesses

Posted by David Baker on Nov 12, 09 09:40 AM in Crime

Police have issued another plea to speak to anyone who witnessed an assault on a man outside the Wealdstone Inn, High Road, Harrow Weald on Tuesday, October 13.
The man, aged 44, was allegedly hit with a stick and sustained a deep cut to his forehead, and is thought to have been attacked at around 11.40pm.

Three men were arrested by police and have been bailed pending further enquiries to a date in November.

Harrow Natures Conservation- morning working party at Bentley Old Vicarage on Saturday 7th November from 10am. Meeting outside Bentley Day Centre, Harrow Weald.

A FOOTBALL fan from Harrow will have torn allegiances when his home town team, and lifelong love, Rotherham United star in this weekend's cup clash against Wealdstone - the club he adopted on coming to the capital.
Loyal Tim Green, 52, of Fairholme Road, says he watches the South Yorkshiremen, who sit fifth in Coca Cola League Two, and the high-flying Ryman Premier League amateurs approximately 10 times a year each.
The freelance software programmer said: "I was born and brought up in Rotherham and have been a season ticket holder for years, even while I have been living in Harrow.
"I travel back up regularly, although not as often as I used to in the past, to Rotherham home games.
"I came to London to work about 12 years ago. I started watching Harrow Borough because I knew the then-chairman, Jim Ripley, but - ahem - I found it quite boring.
"I went to a few Wealdstone games up at Edgware and it was far more fun."
Rotherham United, nicknamed the Millers, and Wealdstone, the Stones, have never played each before and while Sunday's encounter at Grosvenor Vale in Ruislip will be the league side's first game in this year's FA Cup, the non-league club has battled through four qualifying ties to reach the first round proper - the furthest they have progressed for a quarter of a century.
"Unfortunately, I wasn't in the Wealdstone clubhouse when the draw was made but I was at home watching it," Tim said.
"As the number of remaining teams was going down and the probably of the two being drawn against each other was going up, I thought: it's going to happen!
"I think Wealdstone have a very good chance. Rotherham aren't, shall we say, having their best patch of form.
"Wealdstone have won four games to get here - they've got their eye in - and Rotherham haven't won in the FA Cup since January 2002."
Tim, a member of London Millers, for city-based Rotherham fans, added: "The ground will come as a bit of a surprise to Rotherham. The Vale is quite a small place and I would be surprised if Rotherham had played in quite a small a ground in a professional match.
"That said, it's got a slope like our old Millmoor ground so we'll be used to that!
"There are other similarities: Wealdstone were homeless for 12 years and we're currently homeless, and Wealdstone have amazing fans who kept their club going - it could have easily died - and Rotherham's supporters have gone through similar troubles: point deductions for going into administration."
Tim's local knowledge will come in handy for away fans making the trip down the M1.
"I have been asked to put something together for one of the Rotherham supporter websites on where to go, and hopefully I'll be having a few beers with the Wealdstone supporters," he said.
"Actually, I'm going to be the only supporter wanting a replay. I'm going to be in Rotherham on the Tuesday the replay would be played, which is perfect for me!
"It's one of those where I'm torn but in real life, I think we - Rotherham - are going to nick it 1-0 or 2-1, by one goal."

TOURISM and business in Wealdstone could get a boost if plans to demolish a derelict pub and build a 57-room hotel are agreed.
The part three- and part four-storey replacement building, on the site of the vacant Sam Maguire venue in High Street, would incorporate a franchise café on the ground floor, according to developers Macneil, a care home operator from Finchley, north London.
In lodging the new proposal, the company has withdrawn one submitted a year ago to tear down the pub and construct a four-storey care home that would have provided 24-hour care for elderly residents unable to live independently, and two shops at street level.
The man behind Macneil also owns Lukka Care Homes which in November 2006 won permission from Harrow Council to knock down The Flying Eagle pub in Mollison Way, Edgware, and in its place put up a 53-bed nursing home.
Harrow Council itself briefly looked into purchasing the Sam Maguire hostelry - formerly the Queen's Head - in September 2004, by which time the venue had long closed and was owned by the Punch Pub Company.

A DEVELOPER has submitted a second proposal to demolish a derelict Wealdstone pub to make way for flats after councillors rejected the first.
Fruition Properties was refused planning permission by Harrow Council in October 2008 to tear down the former The Case Is Altered boozer in High Street to make way for apartments. The firm then lost its subsequent appeal.
One year later and the firm has submitted a revised scheme to pull down the vacant eyesore building, which lies next door to Wealdstone Police Station, and build 36 flats and one shop in a five-storey block in its place.
Acton-based Fruition Properties says it has "resolved" the problems in the original plan that led to it being rejected: an over-intensive use of the site, and an adverse effect on the character of the Grade II building next door through its poor design and scale.
In its supporting statement, the developer says: "The high quality of architectural design will provide a safe and enjoyable environment for residents.
"The retail unit will provide employment, convenience and maintain commercial activity on the High Street."
It is planned to construct 17 one-bed flats, four one-bed bedsits, 14 two-bed flats and one three-bed flat - none of them affordable - with 37 bicycle spaces and no car parking, along with 447 sq m of shop space.

EXCAVATORS who dug up the patio of a Wealdstone house from which a pensioner disappeared eight years ago have found "nothing of note", it has emerged.
Don Banfield, a 71-year-old retired betting shop manager, was last seen leaving his home in Locket Road eight years ago, on May 13 2001.
Forensics officers took shovels to the property's garden last Thursday and a Metropolitan Police spokeswoman confirmed at the time the possibility of finding the Mr Banfield's remains had not been ruled out.
However, she said today: "Our search has finished at the address. Officers are going to be leaving that address in the next 24 hours.
"Nothing of note was discovered but our enquiries do continue. They're exploring other avenues of investigation. We cannot discount that Don Banfield is alive and well."
The search of the pensioner's former residence, which he is understood to have shared with his wife, came a week after a fresh witness appeal was made through the media.
It appears a tip-off received by the police as a result of this - the nature of which the force is not prepared to divulge - sparked the week-long patio dig.
The spokeswoman said: "This missing person enquiry, like others which are older, has been continually reviewed and it was decided that further avenues of exploration could made. It is an extension of the original enquiry."
Mr Banfield is described as a slim 5ft 6in tall black man with brown eyes and receding grey hair. He has a tattoo of a heart on his left hand.
Trindadian Mr Banfield speaks with a prominent West Indian accent and is known to be a heavy smoker.
Prior to his disappearance, Mr Banfield frequented areas within west London, in particular Shepherds Bush and Wealdstone.
n Anyone with information is asked to call the Harrow Missing Persons Unit on 020 733 4335 or call the confidential National Missing Persons Helpline on 0500 700 700.

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