Stanmore

The puissant Edward has acknowledged the power of Sir William Wallace; and after being beaten on the plain of Stanmore, is now making the best of his way towards his own capital.

The Scottish Chiefs 1875

It had taken me three hours without a break to get from Stanmore to Golders Green via Mill Hill - see Leg 13 and Leg 14 of this pan-London itinerary that's getting me in shape for my London Marathon run in aid of Shelter.

Running London: Leg 15 - Golders Green to Ladbroke Grove 2011

The Labour Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee claimed more than £75,000 to fund a second home in Westminster, even though his family home is just 12 miles away in Stanmore.

This is What the SNP should have done in tonight's PPB Alan Smart 2009

Meanwhile, at Westminster Tube station, disconsolate penguins swathed in scarves waited in vain for a train to Stanmore.

House Points: Government capital spending and Parliamentary standards 2009

The Labour Chairman of the Home Affairs Select Committee claimed more than £75,000 to fund a second home in Westminster, even though his family home is just 12 miles away in Stanmore.

For Foulkes Sake - step forward The Red Baron Alan Smart 2009

Chris Parkins, Stanmore, MiddxA colleague used to refer to "pratalised" numberplates.

Notes and queries: All the colours of the rainbow, plus a few extra; What personalised car number plates say about their owners; The X Factor from outer space 2011

Chris Parkins Stanmore, Middlesex• The European court of justice seems to believe that gender discrimination is synonymous with unfair discrimination.

Letters: Car insurance and sex discrimination 2011

In 1980 Preston joined the Stanmore branch of The National Council of Women G. B., having realized after the UN Conference on Women in Copenhagen “that women have the same problems and the same concerns the world over, and that politics were hindering finding solutions to those problems.”

Rosalind Preston. 2009

He learned they were the wife and the younger sister of a surgeon living at Stanmore, who had come in the small hours from a dangerous case at Pinner, and heard at some railway station on his way of the Martian advance.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009

Police are liaising closely with Jewish groups and have set up "reassurance patrols" in Jewish areas such as Golders Green, North Finchely, Stanmore, Stanford Hill and St John's Wood.

Over 250 anti-semitic attacks in 4 weeks in the UK.... GayandRight 2009