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Letters to the editor: Boyle Heights, Steve Zimmer, circumcisionTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:05PMThank you for Tom Tugend’s nostalgic article on Boyle Heights (“The Nickel Pickle,” July 15). Although I was born in Boyle Heights in 1928, we moved away to “upscale West Adams” when I was a few years old.

Wife's 'murder plot' in Catwoman suitTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 5:07PMChic politician's wife dressed up in outfit, then hid with a gun outside her home - intending to kill her husband.

French councillor's wife dressed up as Catwoman in bizarre alleged to murder plotMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 3:57PMCouncillor's wife waited in bushes to murder husband, court hears.

Back in the Day: Disneyland opens it doors to the publicMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 4:29AMJuly 18, 1955. Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California opens to the public. The park was the idea of Walt Disney who himself took inspiration from other parks in the US but also in other countries such as Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen and Efteling in the Netherlands.

Aspen's European vacationSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 8:55PMOn their way to the Eiffel Tower, the Aspen Basketball Academy European Tour teams stopped by Paris' Arc de Triomphe.

Children's Fund helps concert hit right note for good causeSunday, July 17, 2011 @ 6:33PMA charity gig which received backing from the Lincolnshire Free Press Children's Fund has been hailed a great success. Spalding teenage voluntary drop-in group The Vista Crew organised the concert to support the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Secondary school - one year inWednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 10:38AMLast July, year 6 pupils told Education Guardian how they felt as they looked forward to starting secondary school. A year on, how have they got on? Have their hopes and fears been realised? Moving up to "big school" is a worrying prospect for all 11-year-olds. But for children in one of the 36 local authorities that still have selective education, it can be even more daunting. These children ...

Falling in Love with ParisSaturday, July 9, 2011 @ 9:46PMIT may be cliche to call Paris the city of love, but it really is. Not that I fell in love with anyone in the French capital, but the city has a way of making you fall in love with it.

Traveller's Guide: Ile-de-FranceFriday, July 8, 2011 @ 6:24PMLondon may have the Home Counties, but the French capital is wrapped in something rather more exotic: the Ile-de-France, an ancient term that is now defined as the eight départements that make up the Paris region. The one in the middle is the capital itself – the Paris département that has 75 as its code – which is where most of the 45 million annual visitors to the Ile-de-France spend their ...