Woman 'crawled to safety' from railway ledge
11:37am Wednesday 23rd May 2012 in Wimbledon 
A suicidal woman, who was talked down from a ledge over the railway lines at Wimbledon station, had to crawl to safety while being brought down by firefighters.
Yesterday, at about 3.15pm, trains travelling between Waterloo and Wimbledon were halted after a member of staff raised the alarm.
Firefighters from Wimbledon fire station, who brought the woman to safety using specialist rope line equipment, said the woman had accessed the ledge via a building next to the station.
A spokesman said: “We set up a safety system using our line equipment and we bridged the gap with a ladder to where the casualty was.
“She had jumped across the gap on the walkway, which was about eight to 10 feet wide.
“We estimated it would have been a 30-foot drop down to the railway line.”
After police negotiators talked the woman off the ledge, she had to crawl to safety across the ladder, accompanied by firefighters, who safely led her down to street level.
A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “We were called just before 3.30pm to reports of a woman on a ledge at Wimbledon station.
“The woman agreed to come down at 4.50pm.
“She was in her mid-to-late-20s and was taken to a south London hospital where she was being medically assessed.”
All train services through Wimbledon had been stopped for just over an hour until the incident was resolved at 4.20pm.
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Source: www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk
Wembley appearance is lined up for Leicester Tigers - Leicester Mercury
Leicester Tigers look set to make their first ever appearance at Wembley three weeks into next season.
Details of a fixture between home club Saracens and Leicester are already being advertised on ticket-selling website www.eticketing.co.uk – a service used by many top Premier League football clubs.
The site has ticket details, a date of Saturday, September 15 and a start time of 2.15pm.
It also bills the entertainment for the day as being from "chart-topping sensation, Cover Drive" – a four-piece band from Barbados. Adult tickets range from £16 to £65 with concessions for juniors.
It reads: "On Saturday September 15, Saracens will take to the Wembley stage once more.
"This fixture will welcome Leicester Tigers to Wembley for their first appearance against Saracens at their second home."
Despite this detail, Premiership Rugby (PRL), the Aviva Premiership's governing body, say that no apparent plans will be made concrete until the 2012-13 fixture list is released on Wednesday July 4.
A spokesman for PRL said: "The fixture list has not been confirmed yet and they will be released on July 4, as planned."
It is understood that Saracens have requested an away fixture for that third round of competition though and, if Tigers are confirmed as their opponents, it will provide a first visit to the iconic national football stadium.
Saracens used Wembley for home games on two occasions last season.
They beat the Ospreys 31-26 in the Heineken Cup in a game that attracted 41,036 supporters.
They lost to Harlequins 24-19 in March at the same venue but attracted 83,761 for the all-London clash – a world record for a club rugby game.
Saracens will play their home games next season in Barnet at the renovated 10,000-seater Copthall Stadium.
Tigers did not wish to pass comment.
Source: www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk
Minister opens East Kent Access Road - Kent Online
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East Kent Access Road during construciton, from Minster to Pegwell
An £86m road is to be officially opened today by local transport minister Norman Baker.
The front bencher will join Kent County Council leader Paul
Carter and South Thanet MP Laura Sandys to officially open the East
Kent Access Road.
Its completion aims to help support economic growth and create jobs
across the eastern part of the county.
It also means better transport links to such sites as Manston
Airport; the Discovery Park on the former Pfizer
site, Eurokent - a mixed-use site - and Manston Business
Park.
Eurokent and Manston business parks are joint initiatives
between Kent County Council and Thanet District Council that have
the potential to deliver 550 homes and 4,000 jobs.
The new road was built by Kent County Council with £81.25 million
funding from the Department for Transport and £5.75 million from
KCC.
Tuesday, May 22 2012
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Great news... now we just need Thanet Council to ignore the NIMBYs and back Manston.
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