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Bomb scare in main road is a false alarm An ‘abuse
of trust’
A main road in East Sheen
was closed on Tuesday after
the discovery of an unexploded bomb, which later turned
out to be a piece of scrap
metal.
Upper Richmond Road West
was closed between Clifford
Avenue and Sheen Lane at
about 4pm on March 31 and
re-opened shortly before
4.40pm.
Police, firefighters and ambulance crews attended and
bus routes 33, 337 and 493
were subject to diversion and
delays while the incident was
investigated.
People posted on Twitter,
stating a “suspicious object”
had been dug up in the area,
with some residents stating a
suspected unexploded World
War II bomb had been found.
A
Metropolitan
Police
spokesman said the incident
was a “security alert” and was
unable to issue further details.
Heathrow expansion is
a big concern for TfL
Laura Proto
laura.proto
@london.newsquest.co.uk
Transport for London (TfL)
has raised “serious concerns”
about congestion and the
costs of
expansion at
Heathrow, just weeks before
the Airports Commission’s
final recommendation is due.
TfL said both the airport
and the commission had “significantly underestimated”
the challenge of improving
transport access to the site,
with the Airports Commission estimating £5bn would
be enough to make the
improvements.
But TfL believes that, to
provide an optimal level of
service, the figure would be
nearer to £20bn, raising questions about who would pay
the additional costs.
The commission said building a third runway and its related assets would cost
£18.5bn, excluding surface
access.
A population growth of 37
per cent by 2050 has also not
Expansion: A picture of Heathrow with the proposed
third runway
Picture: Heathrow Airports Limited
been taken into account in regards to the increased pressure on London’s roads and
public transport infrastructure, TfL said.
The commission acknowledged that if the west London
airport did expand, passengers would experience “very
crowded conditions during
peak times”, but TfL said it
had underestimated the demand for surface access in
2030 by 25 per cent.
Daniel Moylan, the Mayor of
London’s chief adviser of aviation, said: “The Airports
Commission’s assessment of
the surface access impacts for
an expanded Heathrow does
not extend beyond 2030 and
assumes a third runway to be
barely a quarter full, which is
not credible for an airport
currently operating at more
than 98 per cent capacity.
“With that in mind, it is
hardly surprising that the
commission has woefully underestimated the associated
surface access cost by more
than £10bn.”
TfL’s concerns were aired in
a letter to the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for
Heathrow and the wider
economy.
Zac Goldsmith, Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate for Richmond
Park and north Kingston, MP
and chairman of the APPG,
said: “TfL is better placed
than any other organisation
to understand the effects
Heathrow expansion will
have on London’s transport
network, and it is extraordinary, therefore, that the commission never bothered to ask
for its assessment.”
To read TfL’s response in
full, visit heathrowappg.com/
tfl-response-to-appg-on-surface
-access.
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Judge McCreath added
there was a “serious abuse
of trust” as the child victim
was living in a residential
home to be cared for.
He added a third aggravating factor in the case was
the age difference between
the victim and McSweeney.
Judge McCreath said:
“There is no such thing as a
trivial sexual assault of a
child. How could there be?
There are sexual assaults
that are worse than that described in count one but
that is not to create some
sort of hierarchy.”
Taking into account mitigating factors, Judge McCreath said it would be
“unfair” and “unbalanced”
to disregard McSweeney
had been a conscientious
priest in “almost all” aspects of his calling.
He said: “Although all of
this was brought upon him
himself, the fact remains
the effect upon him as a
priest is devastating.”
Along with his prison sentence, McSweeney was
given a sexual harm prevention order.
McSweeney showed no
emotion throughout the
hearing and arrived unshaven and with a small bag
to take with him down to
the cells.
After a trial last month,
McSweeney,
of
Old
Brighton Road North, Pease
Pottage, Crawley, was acquitted on three other
charges of indecent assault
on boys under the age of 16
and one count of taking an
indecent photograph of a
child.
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