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• St George’s Shopping Centre in Harrow evacuated after car catches fire

  15-10-2026 22:24 via harrowonline.org
  
  St George’s Shopping Centre in Harrow has been evacuated this evening (15 October) after a car caught fire.
  Images and video footage sent to Harrow Online show the vehicle engulfed in flames, with shoppers and visitors gathered outside the centre following the evacuation.
  The surrounding area has also been cleared, with people waiting to return to collect their vehicles.
  St George’s Shopping Centre evacuated tonight. Image: @aaron.dil (IG)
  No injuries reported
  No injuries have been r
  
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• Firefighters cordon off Wealdstone road after smoke reported from manhole

  15-10-2026 17:17 via harrowonline.org
  
  Firefighters were called to Wealdstone on Wednesday evening (14 October) following reports of smoke coming from a manhole on Locket Road.
  London Fire Brigade attended the scene shortly after 6pm, with a 25-metre cordon put in place near the junction with Byron Road.
  Photographs taken at the scene show a fire engine parked on Locket Road, with yellow hazard tape stretching across part of the junction and surrounding pavement.
  Firefighters could be seen working within the cordoned-off area, while
  
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• Remember The Vine? The history of Stanmore’s former pub

  15-10-2026 12:58 via harrowonline.org
  
  A photograph taken in Stanmore during the 1980s has brought back memories of a pub that was once a familiar part of life Harrow.
  The picture shows The Vine, a former public house on Stanmore Hill, near Little Common. It was among a batch of old photographs recently received by Harrow Online, with several of the other images showing Stanmore Broadway during the 1980s. While much has changed since these pictures were taken, The Vine has a history stretching back considerably further than many peop
  
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• Pinner woman wins £83,000 after forgetting to update lottery ticket address

  15-10-2026 10:22 via harrowonline.org
  
  A woman who moved to Pinner has won more than £83,000 on the People’s Postcode Lottery after forgetting to update the address on her ticket.
  Zoe Wallace moved from Saltdean, near Brighton, to Pinner in August last year, but continued playing the lottery using the postcode of her former home.
  That turned out to be a very lucky mistake when her old postcode, BN2 8LT, was selected for the lottery’s £1 million Millionaire Street prize on Saturday, 10 October. Zoe was one of n
  
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• Around 80 firefighters tackle warehouse fire in Wembley

  15-10-2026 08:19 via harrowonline.org
  
  Twelve fire engines and around 80 firefighters were called to a large warehouse fire in Wembley during the early hours of this morning (Thursday 15 October).
  London Fire Brigade (LFB) confirmed that crews were called to an industrial warehouse on Water Road at 2.18am, where a fire had broken out inside the building.
  Part of the ground floor was destroyed in the blaze, although no injuries have been reported.
  Residents advised to close windows
  As firefighters worked to bring the fire under contro
  
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