Mr Simmons lived in Camberley, Surrey, and Teddington, south west London, before his recent move to France.

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The A46 at the Teddington Hands roundabout was closed after a crash between a lorry and a car.

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The company owns the Pinewood, Shepperton and Teddington facilities, making it Europe's largest provider of stage and studio space.

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Eric Morecambe has a blue plaque on his former home in Teddington, but it was erected by Comic Heritage not English Heritage.

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On 1 October 2008, Witty, of Teddington, south-west London, met the third victim by chance in a bar in the City of London.

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The fourth victim was introduced to him through the same dating website and they met at The Anglers pub in Teddington in August last year.

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LGC's UK laboratories are in Culham, Leeds, Runcorn in Cheshire, St Neots in Cambridgeshire, Tamworth in Staffordshire, Teddington, Risley in Cheshire, and Wakefield in West Yorkshire.

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And if you walk through a well-to-do place like Teddington, you can see children's T-shirts in the shop window with the only slightly ironic slogan "My daddy's rich and my mother's good looking".

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And if you go across the river to Ham, only a matter of a few minutes walk away from Teddington, there is an island of council housing, cut-off from the commuter trains and upwardly-mobile cafe bars.

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Jerrold Zacharias at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology developed a practical atomic clock around the same time that Louis Essen and John Parry established the first atomic clock at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington, west of London.

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