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Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:24am

Swan sightings set record

Mild weather over Christmas meant a record number of Tundra Swans were seen over Lake Erie in Port Stanley, according to volunteers with the St. Thomas Bird Count.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:23am

Chatham-Kent mayor optimistic

The global economy and the stock market are likely to dictate the fortunes of Chatham-Kent in 2012, says Mayor Randy Hope.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:22am

Polar bears take plunge

There's been better days for a swim in Lake Huron.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 8:14am

More snow on the way

The London region will continue to get dumped on Tuesday with forecasters calling for another 15 to 25 centimetres.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:26am

Sid Ryan joining picket line

Ontario Federation of Labour president Sid Ryan will join locked out workers on the picket line at the Electro-Motive plant in London Tuesday morning.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:07am

London’s brainwave or Toronto’s Gift?

Ninety-one years ago, Frederick Banting woke up in his London house with an idea that would lead to the discovery of insulin.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:14am

Home residents sought

Police are searching for the occupants of a century home in Blandford-Blenheim demolished in a blaze Monday morning.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:17am

Nursing offered chance to aid homeless

Growing up in a middle-class neighbourhood in west London, Abe Oudshoorn didn't often come face to face with homelessness.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:13am

Area suppliers' 1,200 workers may share pain

The lockout at Electro-Motive Diesel will have an immediate effect on more than a dozen local companies that supply parts to the plant, the head of the London Economic Development Corp. says.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 1:20pm

Where to recycle your Xmas tree

With Christmas gone for another year, it's time to find a new home for the tree.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:12am

Lockout really hits home

For Sarah Smith and her husband Vince Gugliotta, there's twice the worry because they both work for Electro-Motive.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 6:14pm

Clerk hurt in robbery

Police are seeking a barbecue fork-wielding man who robbed a variety store.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:13am

Look who’s made long-awaited return

After a green Christmas, winter arrived in London with a vengeance Monday.

Last Updated: January 3, 2012 7:11am

Standoff at the gates

Nearly 200 CAW members blocked the gate to London's Electro-Motive plant Monday, holding up a van carrying a handful of replacement workers hired by Caterpillar to keep the plant's boiler going.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 8:36am

Internet rumours ripe over new Apple store

Is the Masonville Place mall ripe for an Apple store?

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 8:08am

Hwy. 7/8 expansion will take a toll

A minimum of 500 acres of farmland will be lost to pavement under plans to expand Hwy. 7/8, but the toll could be much higher, a farm organization warns.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 8:07am

Sarnia area OPP score high

Lambton County residents like the OPP.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:35am

Sky’s the limit for London paramedic

Brandon Doneff crouches over a critically injured patient, working to keep him alive in the back of a helicopter speeding toward the London Health Sciences Centre.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:59am

Shut-out workers dig in

A protracted showdown with "ominous" implications looms at London's Electro-Motive Diesel.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:45am

Jeweller updates medical pendant

A Chatham entrepreneur has developed a new medical information pendant that does more than identify a person's condition or ailment.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:42am

One worker’s take on the stakes

Kelly Gordon is scared.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:33am

Tickled by ivories, his career is reborn

It's an old song on the unemployment line -- job-retraining that often leads nowhere.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:47am

Region braces for snow squalls

The London region is bracing for snow squalls that could dump upwards of 40 cm on some areas.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 7:55am

Police mum on connection

Police are investigating two bank robberies in London 24 hours apart, but still weren't saying Sunday whether they're related.

Last Updated: January 2, 2012 8:37am

Girls learn to whisper to horses

Eight-year-old Emily Moore and her half-Welsh pony -- affectionately named A Halloween Treat -- can have their own conversations.

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