council flat tenant is facing eviction after her 18-year-old son appeared in court in connection with riots in Clapham Junction.

The woman was served with an eviction notice by Wandsworth Council on Friday afternoon.
She is believed to be the first council tenant in the country to face losing her home over rioting and looting which blighted the nation this week.
Council leader Ravi Govindia said: "In Wandsworth we are determined to take the strongest possible action against any tenant or member of their household responsible for the truly shocking behaviour perpetrated on local homes and businesses earlier this week."
On Friday Prime Minister David Cameron said people who "loot and pillage their own community" should be evicted from council houses.
An application will now be made to the courts seeking their eviction, with the final decision being taken by a judge sitting at the county court.
Meanwhile, thousands of police officers remain on Britain's streets as the country faces its first weekend since the violence started.
However, on Friday night most of the country remained calm and quiet.
More than 1,700 people have now been arrested in connection with the week's events.
Courts in London, Birmingham and Manchester have stayed open around the clock since Wednesday to deal with hundreds of alleged offenders.
But police officers have been on a collision course with Mr Cameron after claims they were too soft in their initial response to the disorder.
The PM said officers had been overwhelmed at first and outmaneuvered by mobile gangs of rioters.
He said: "Far too few police were deployed onto the streets. And the tactics they were using weren't working."

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former New York police chief will advise the British Government on how to tackle gangs following this week's riots.

Bill Bratton has headed the New York and Los Angeles police forces
Prime Minister David Cameron has asked the former chief of police in New York and Los Angeles, Bill Bratton, to become his crime adviser.
It comes as the courts continue to process the 1,210 people arrested so far - with 698 now facing charges.
Also, a council tenant in South London has become the first person to face eviction over claims her son was involved in looting.
Mr Bratton is no stranger to UK policing, having teamed up with British officers at other times over the past 20 years.
In 2009, the Queen awarded him the honorary title of Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.


Mr Bratton, who is now a security expert, left the Los Angeles police force in 2009 after significantly lowering the crime rate.
Previously he was head of the New York Police Department where, in his first two years at the helm, reports of serious crime dropped 27%.
He said the disturbing scenes of police overwhelmed by rioting in London showed a need for more minority officers and other long-term solutions.
Reacting to the riots across England, Mr Bratton said British police needed to focus on calming racial tensions by working more with community leaders and civil rights groups.
He added: "(Mr) Cameron... thanked me for agreeing to work with the British government as they deal with the issues of gang crime, gang violence and gang intervention.

A suspected looter was arrested in Pimlico this week
"I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with them on those issues."
"I think part of what the Government is going to do is, to take a look at what worked and what didn't work during the course of the last week.
"My assignment is to focus more on the issues of the American experience dealing with gangs and what we may be able to share with them that might help them to prevent similar activities in the future."
The 63-year-old is expected to meet Mr Cameron next month to share his expertise on tackling street crime.
Mr Cameron and the police have been on a collision course after claims officers were too soft in their initial response to this week's disorder.

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How the London riots unfolded
The PM said officers had been overwhelmed at first and outmaneuvered by mobile gangs of rioters.
"Far too few police were deployed onto the streets. And the tactics they were using weren't working," he said.
However, a senior police chief hit out at Mr Cameron's claim that police budget cuts were "totally achievable" - saying less money meant fewer officers.
Sir Hugh Orde from the Association of Chief Police Officers (Acpo) said on BBC's Newsnight: "It is true there are cuts of 20% to policing over this current spending period.
"Inevitably and predictably that will lead to less police officers, let me be clear about that. It will also lead to less police staff."

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Black widow spiders invade Yorkshire

If you're scared of spiders then you should probably stop reading now.

Because if the thought of coming face to face with a deadly black widow spider is enough to bring you out in a cold sweat, you're not going to want to hear about what happened to workers at an factory in Barton-upon-Humber.

Earlier this week, two black widow spiders - including a deadly female - and one less dangerous brown widow, were discovered at the engineering firm after they made their way to the UK in US-imported aircraft engines.

Unaware that the spiders could be lethal, workers captured them by trapping them inside glasses from the canteen and are now keeping them alive in jam jars, feeding them with flies and other spiders, while they try to find a suitable home.

The spiders travelled to TC Power from Kansas, on a KLM flight and a North Sea ferry.

When the the engines arrived, workers climbed underneath them and got to work with spanners - and that's when one of them saw an unusual spider scuttle out just inches from his colleagues head.

One of the men, Dave Holden, said: "We got a glass from the canteen area of the workshop and put it over it with a piece of card underneath it and tied some cloth around it."

Later that day, a male spider emerged, followed by the slightly less poisonous brown widow, which was found the next day hanging from its web off the side of one of the engines.

The team then searched the engines for more webs or spiders and workers were kitted out with thick overall and gloves to protect them from bites.

Managing director Stuart Elliott told the Daily Mail: "It is quite scary when you think we have had three or four people lying around underneath the engines, working within five or six inches of the frames where we found the first female black widow.

"We are quite eco-friendly here. They put paper tops on so they could breathe, put wet cotton wool in and fed them flies and other spiders. They have made webs and have got them there for after dinner."

A bite from the black widow, especially from the female, can be very serious - but if a healthy person was bitten they would probably survive if they received swift medical attention.

However children, the elderly or anyone with a heart or respiratory problem would be at much greater risk.

The black widow is usually only found in the US, in tropical areas, Australia and several countries in Europe.

 

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