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Aveley has given its name to the Aveley Interglacial period around 200,000 years ago. Important evidence of the local flora and fauna of the period and some signs of occupation by Neanderthal humans have been found there. In Domesday the names has various spellings – Alvithelea, Alvileia and Alvilea. The name means Aelfgyth's wood clearing. A variation, in 1418, is Alvythele. John Newton, the author of Amazing Grace, lived in Aveley, which was the home of his father's second wife....

By David Ballheimer Hendon Football Club, members of the top division of the Bostik (Isthmian) League for 55 seasons, are starting their second season at their home of Silver Jubilee Park in Kingsbury. The ground, postcode NW9 7NE for SatNav users, is off Townsend Lane, within a couple of miles of the M1, A5, A41 and A406. The club was formed in 1908, as Christ Church Hampstead and continued as Hampstead Town, Hampstead and Golders Green, before becoming Hendon in 1946. The best years...

Sport News 24/7 Welcome to a new weekly-ish blog piece for TLE, covering Tottenham Hotspur. As the new stadium on Tottenham High Road continues to take shape, Tottenham are over in sunny Orlando taking part in the prestigious pre-season International Champions Cup. A tournament taking place across three locations (the US, China and Singapore) and featuring 17 teams in total, of which only five are actually champions. Sigh. Spurs get their tournament underway on Saturday, taking on PSG – although...

By Rob Overfield Hidden away in a leafy area of affluent suburban SW London, Hampton & Richmond Borough have ambitions beyond the National League South after finishing 7th in the league last season. Formed in 1921, for nearly 40 years, Hampton FC were just another village club in the Middlesex local leagues, with varying amounts of success, before attaining senior status in 1959 and entry to the Surrey Senior League. Improving year on year, Hampton won the Surrey Senior League...

St Albans City FC (nicknamed "The Mighty Saints") was founded in 1908 and plays its home matches at Clarence Park stadium which is situated in a Victorian park, about 800 yards from the city centre, and a 5 minute walk from the City train station (which is just 18 minutes from Kings Cross - St Pancras). The club currently competes in the National League South (previously known as the Conference South) in the sixth tier of the English football pyramid....

By Stuart Tree Corinthian-Casuals were founded in 1939 from the amalgamation of their two famous forebears, The Corinthian Football Club and The Casuals FC. The Corinthians were founded in 1882 by N.L."Pa" Jackson, Asst. Hon. Sec. of the Football Association. His aim was to develop a club side capable of challenging Scotland at international level. Within four years, calling on the best amateurs from the public schools and universities, there were nine Corinthians in the England team. Twice, the national squad...

I was driving through Andalucía on Sunday, from Malaga to Ronda, meandering along the A-366 with a familiar sound in my ears; an England collapse. The only unusual thing it seems, was the setting. The breath taking, if arid, sights of the Parque Natural Sierra de las Nieves and its empty roads, rather than an asphyxiated English motorway. Test Match Special, for so long an English institution, is very much a global entity in today’s technological society. No more waiting...

Sport News 24/7 By Richard de Winter & David de Winter - Sports Editor @TLE_Sport  @davidjdewinter  @rgdewinter Brothers Richard & David de Winter round-up a busy week of sport starting with the history-making British & Irish Lions drawn test series in New Zealand, England's victory in the first test against South Africa at Lord's, the Wimbledon tennis Championships and finally discuss the first week of the Tour de France.

Irish newspaper The Herald may have just published the biggest front-page blunder of the year after it confused Romelu Lukaku for hip hop artist Stormzy. Manchester United announced the signing of 24-year-old Lukaku this weekend after agreeing an initial fee of £75 million for the striker. But he is yet to be unveiled by the club. The Herald ran a front page regardless with the forward in full United livery. Except the picture isn't of him - it's of popular grime and hip hop...