Recently by James Cracknell

A BUSINESSMAN wanted by the US for smuggling weapons has ditched his lawyer after two bids for legal aid were rejected.

Guy Savage, who lives in a detached home on the plush Pinner street of Daymer Gardens, told City of Westminster Magistrates Court on Friday (8) that his life had become "a daily struggle" since he was arrested in a dramatic police raid five months ago.

A TEENAGER will be sentenced for killing his friend after he admitted causing death by careless driving.

Jack Guinchard, 18, of Cuckoo Hill Drive, Pinner,was at the wheel of a Ford Fiesta in Cuckoo Hill last year when he lost control and was in a head-on collision that killed passenger James Whybrow (pictured), from Pinner Green.

A TRICK and a treat rolled into one is this Hatch End girl's idea for a new scary ice cream.

Maryam Janmohamed entered a Halloween competition after seeing a newspaper advert and now her 'Blood Surprise' is one of the ten finalists.

The eight-year-old was at Sainsbury's supermarket in Pinner on Friday to promote her recipe of red liquorice, raspberry sauce, vanilla ice cream, chocolate fangs and black food colouring.

AMATEUR Harrow hip-hop act Black Biscuit have won an online music award for a video they shot in Hatch End.

Dwayne Littlen from Rayners Lane and Kevern Raks from Harrow Weald took home the 'best video' prize in the Online Music Awards on Saturday (25) after winning a public vote.

A PINNER businessman accused of hanging a colleague from a forklift truck has been cleared of assault and false imprisonment.

Micko Kadic, 37, of Mill Farm Close, said he had only acted to break up a fight at an industrial warehouse in east London.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that victim Saeed Noor had been 'lured' to the Dagenham premises by Muhammed Sheikh, 34, of Sutton Court Road, Plaistow.

AN inquest has been opened and adjourned into the road crash death of a Hatch End man.

Amit Makwana, 48, from Hillview Road, died after a collision with a stationary HGV lorry in the early hours of Sunday (12).

RESIDENTS in Pinner have objected to plans for a three-storey block of flats sited opposite the West House museum and art gallery.

The proposals being considered by Harrow Council for the site of the former day nursery at 69 West End Lane include nine flats of one, two and three bedrooms, plus an underground car park and roof-top solar panels.

A MUSIC video filmed in a Hatch End subway has been nominated for an award after becoming an online sensation.

Funded using savings and money borrowed from friends and family, local amateur MCs Dwayne Littlen and Kevern Raks, known as Black Biscuit, were a number one hit on the music channel Flava TV for their video 'Anonymous'.

SUMMER is almost upon us but in Pinner they're still enjoying last winter's snow.

One of the winning entries in a community art and photography competition run by a local interiors shop was a painting of High Street covered in the white stuff.

Clive Baxter's artwork won the 'best depiction of Pinner' category, and he along with seven other winners were presented with their prizes at Lines of Pinner on Monday (6) night.

THE future of a development site in the heart of Pinner village may finally have been settled after the land was sold off.

A number of firms have been vying to build a block of flats behind the row of shops in Bridge Street, opposite Waxwell Lane, and now a deal has gone through building work could start within six months.