06/05/2017 London News

Donors have pledged thousands of pounds to help a 90-year-old

woman stabbed in the neck in an attack in west London.

A crowdfunding page has been set up to help the victim,

with donations being offered from as far away as Qatar.

So sorry to hear about your troubles.

Messages of love from a community still in shock

following the violent attack on one of their own, a 90-year-old

We knew the lady that it happened to, knowing that a member of our

community had been assaulted in such an horrific way, it's awful, you

know. As a regular at the George

and Dragon in Yiewsley, the unnamed lady was there just days before this

brutal attack, which is why staff set up a postbox

for customers who wanted to leave It is the amount of people that have

come in and sent messages and it has been everybody from 15

years old right up to 80. According to reports,

the lady was hit with a hammer before being stabbed

in the hallway of her own home here in Lilac Place,

in what police have attack on a defenceless

elderly lady. And that's a view echoed by friends

and neighbours. And one of those neighbours

is Joanne Killick, so disgusted by the attack

she set up a crowdfunding page to raise money

for It's just completely heart-whelming

how the community has stuck together, completely gutwrenching,

it upset me that someone so cruel Although a 52-year-old woman has

been charged with attempted murder, police are appealing

for witnesses to come forward. A man is still fighting for his life

after a helicopter crash Three men were on board

the aircraft, which came down An off-duty paramedic helped treat

the most seriously injured passenger before the emergency

services arrived. 80 firefighters have been tackling

a blaze in Covent Garden. They were called to a shop

and apartments on Long Acre Dogs that are already saving lives

by detecting cancer are now being trained to identify

people with malaria. Claire Guest from Buckinghamshire

set up the Medical Detection Dogs charity after she believed her own

Labrador alerted her The bond between Claire and her

beloved dog Daisy is a strong one. It was her Labrador's

behaviour around her at their Buckinghamshire

home that she believes saved her life,

detecting cancer. She kept nudging into my chest,

led me to find a bruised area, I felt it for a few days and

eventually got it checked out and I was

eventually diagnosed with a very, very deep-seated

but early-stage breast tumour. Since then, Claire

has set up a charity where dogs are trained

to detect not only cancer It costs ?12,000 to train them

to recognise different diseases and it is all done

through fundraising. What we tend to do is not use dogs

from one project and move them on to another one,

so a cancer dog would tend to always stay on a cancer

project, and we would train new additional dogs

for our new projects. So our malaria projects would have

dedicated malaria detection dogs. A child dies every two minutes

in Africa because of malaria. Medical teams in the Gambia are

working with the centre to detect the disease there so that people can

get early treatment. I think the potential for this

work is absolutely huge. Dogs are incredibly sophisticated

biosensors, they can detect Just think what that

difference that will make in the future to diagnosis,

it will save thousands of lives, Claire knows Daisy is

coming to the end of her days, but her legacy will have

been to save so many It will be a mostly cloudy start

to Sunday with a little Through the day it will become

brighter with some sunny spells, however the odd shower

may arrive later. You can keep up to

date on our website. From all of us here,

enjoy your weekend.