THEY CAME, ten years ago, as two tiny trees, that Museum Gardens were throwing out. They were adopted by the Russia Lane Day Centre. Now, after a long and exceptionally hot summer, the banana trees have produced fruit. Russia Lane ...

A MAN WHO killed his own mother was sentenced to life imprisonment, to serve a minimum of 22 years at a hearing at the Old Bailey on 28th September. Richard Clayton, 45, had strangled her – and then rang police ...