Cricket equipment and historical artifacts belonging to one of Ontario’s oldest cricket clubs were destroyed in a fire in a storage container at a sports field in north London. âThis is devastating for the whole London cricket community,â said Arun Jentrick, president of the London Cricket Club established in 1856
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One person is dead and another was in custody as police conducted a homicide investigation in Hanover.Â
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A vehicle struck a building and caused a natural gas leak that led to power shutdowns near downtown London early Wednesday. The incident began at about 4:20 a.m. in the 400 block of Ridout Street North, officials the London Fire Department said in a statement posted to social media. Power
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Four people were taken to hospital after fire struck a home near the intersection of Hamilton and Egerton roads east of downtown London on Wednesday morning.
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An overnight fire at a historic building in the heart of Wortley Village caused estimated $1-million damage. London firefighters responded around 12:30 a.m. Thursday to a structure fire at building on Wortley Road, north of Bruce Street, where crews used two aerial ladders to douse the stubborn blaze, fire department
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A committee of the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority has rejected a proposal to build a strip mall and McDonald’s on a flood plain in northeast London. The authority’s hearing committee decided Tuesday to reject the application from Royal Premier Homes at 1310 Adelaide St. N. and 795 Windermere Rd
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One cat is dead, and another one was rescued, after a house fire at a home in London’s south end on Sunday afternoon caused $200,000 damage, London Fire Department officials say. London firefighters and emergency crews responded to a blaze in the 400 block of Alston Road, near Nixon Avenue
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Firefighters battled a blaze at a home in east London on Friday that appeared to have also damaged two neighbouring houses.
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London police are asking for the public’s help as they try to identify two suspects at the scene of a vehicle fire early Friday. Before the fire near Commissioners Road and Highland Heights that broke out around 12:40 a.m., video surveillance showed two people in a vehicle pull into a
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A late-night fire destroyed a vacant building in London, but firefighters protected a nearby home from damage.
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An investigation is underway into a Sunday evening freight train fire in the city’s core that caused about $35,000 damage to five rail cars and a downtown building and lit up social media. But it remains to be seen what sparked the blaze, an occurrence that happens about once a
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The crew aboard a flaming freight train that rolled through London late Sunday disconnected the burning cars from others used to carry hazardous material, fire officials say. Platoon chief Colin Shewell credits the actions of the two-person train crew and the more than two dozen firefighters who worked to douse