An elderly man with learning difficulties has been “viciously” attacked by a dog in Tooting. 73-year-old Raghu was on his morning walk on Friday 30, April when he was bitten suddenly by a dog at the entrance of Broadwalk Road entrance. The dog “left a hole” in his upper thigh and “ripped his trousers to shreds” before its owner gained control of the animal and fled from the scene. His niece, Hema, was at the house she shares with hear uncle near Broadwater Road when he entered in a state of shock. “Raghu has learning difficulties so he couldn’t compute the pain. So he walked back to our house until the ambulances came.
A man has been jailed for a ‘brutal’ machete attack which left his victim with life-changing injuries after a bin collector found the weapon and flagged down police.
Noor Kayani, of Gatton Road, Wandsworth had met with the victim, who he knew, and stole his phone before punching him in the face after a row erupted between the two on June 21 at about 3.30pm.
The victim said he momentarily lost his vision from the punch before instinctively lifting his arms to protect himself from the sudden machete blow that followed.
He was left with nerve damage to his arm from the attack, which Kayani fled.
The new stores in Richmond, Putney and Tooting will generate around 80 new jobs in the area. In a first for Lidl, the store in Richmond, on Richmond Road, will have a school above the property. Deer Park Primary School will be able to accommodate 230 pupils from April, with 16 classrooms, outdoor learning space and an on-site, multiuse games area.
Lidl, Upper Tooting Rd Elsewhere in London, Lidl supermarkets have opened in Putney, located on Putney High Street and Tooting, on Upper Tooting Road. The store in Tooting is replacing the existing one on the same road, with all existing staff retained.
But in the Victorian era, there was immense pressure for women to tie the knot.
Those who didn t were described as Spinsters and were the subject of cruel jokes.
But a popular weekly magazine from the 1880s shows that unmarried women were perfectly capable of fighting back.
Comments sent in by single women who had been invited in a competition to explain, Why I am a Spinster showed the acerbic wit of respondents.
Historian Dr Bob Nicholson found the jokes while studying an 1889 edition of Tit- Bits Magazine, which continued to be published until 1984.
Dr Nicholson told MailOnline: I love some of the responses to this competition they turn the stereotype of the Victorian spinster on its head and reveal some of the reasons why some Victorian women might have preferred to remain single.