Archive
-
Date
Ken rebuffed over crossrail
EAGER listeners who heard Ken Livingstone pour cold water on the Chiswick Crossrail plans on a BBC Radio London show may be disappointed after those involved scorned his authority. Chiswick residents are concerned with the plans for the Crossrail line
-
Date
Family held over fatal stabbing
POLICE are investigating a fatal stabbing on the outskirts of Chiswick following a late night emergency call out. A call was received at 4.25am on Monday, reporting a death in Dordrecht Road, W3. Officers arrived to find Danilo Castanheta-Figeurido,
-
Date
Teacher jets off to Gaelic games
YOU can't get more international than an Irish man living in Isleworth, representing Great Britain at Gaelic football and jetting off to Dubai to play against Australian teams. John Cafferkey, originally from Westport in County Mayo, will fly to the
-
Date
OAP in drugs bust
AN OLD age pensioner and two other Isleworth residents have been arrested following a police drugs bust in the early hours of yesterday morning. Police arrested the 69-year-old female, a 30-year-old female and a 55-year-old male following a raid on a
-
Date
Drive ban for BSkyB exec
An executive at BSB, Isleworth, was fined over £800 for drink driving at Feltham court when he admitted the offence. Christopher Andrew Tilley, aged 53, of Cleveland Road, Ealing, was reported to police after a witness saw him sitting in his car and
-
Date
Motorbike in fatal night crash
POLICE are appealing for witnesses following a fatal motorcycle accident near Chiswick's borders on Monday, after a collision in Goldhawk Road at the junction with Askew Road, Hammersmith at approximately 2am. It is understood a motorcyclist was in collision
-
Date
Teaching dedication awarded
EDUCATION chiefs have recognised more than a thousand years of teaching and educational experience at a special celebration held earlier this week. Forty teachers and support staff from schools across the borough were honoured at the exclusive dinner
-
Date
Sex attack gang laughed at victim
A GROUP of men laughed at their victim as they subjected her to an indecent assault down a Hounslow alleyway last Friday. The 23-year-old had turned off Alexandra Road at around 5pm and was walking down the alleyway at the side of McDonald's when she
-
Date
Daffodil granny takes to fundraising
HOUNSLOW gran Pam Ebsworth had a birthday to remember on Monday - when she spent the day dressed as a giant daffodil in aid of Marie Curie Cancer Care. Pam wanted to do something special for her 64th birthday and came up with her own wacky way to mark
-
Date
A&E cut confirmed
RESIDENTS will have to travel to Chertsey to receive immediate hospital treatment, after plans to replace the Emergency Department, at Ashford Hospital, with an Urgent Treatment Centre (UTC) were approved by North Surrey NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT),
-
Date
Row sparked over school closure threat
COUNCILLORS clashed at a Borough Council meeting this week during time set aside for questions about the future of local schools. Empty seats in Hanworth classrooms are creating speculation that schools may be forced to merge in a cost cutting exercise
-
Date
Local bobby handed bravery commendation
A HESTON policeman has been rewarded for his great detective work and exceptional bravery at a Metropolitan Police commendation ceremony. Beat officer PC Nick Alford, who patrols Heston East, has made more than 200 arrests and submitted 750 intelligence
-
Date
Tribute to boroughs election manager
Alan Rust, the Elections Manager for the London Borough of Hounslow died at the weekend after a two-and-a half-year battle with cancer. He leaves a wife and four teenage children. "Alan joined Hounslow in 1975," said Mike Smith, Assistant Chief Executive
-
Date
Fancy a curry?
On Mothering Sunday, 21 March, the Rotary Club of Heston and Isleworth is holding a Curry Day in support of The Shooting Star Children's Hospice at the Memories of India restaurant in Thornbury Road, Osterley. Director of the restaurant, Moyz Uddin,
-
Date
Brides fury at rail operators lack of grit
A BRIDE to be whose arm is set to be incarcerated in plaster during her once in a lifetime event hit out at rail operators this week for showing a lack of grit over the safety of passengers. PR executive Emily Smith, who lives in the Grove Park area
-
Date
Young brothers mugged
TWO brothers were stopped by thieves last Saturday as they walked home from a visit to their grandmother's. The two boys, aged 13 and 15, were walking along Heston Road, Hounslow, at around 1pm, when they were approached by a gang of about eight Asian
-
Date
Muslim league member admits role in passport scam
A FORMER member of the Muslim League and his accomplice have pleaded guilty at Isleworth Crown Court to supplying British passports to failed asylum seekers at Heathrow airport. The two were arrested during a complex investigation by the National Crime
-
Date
Schools faced a legal challenge
A TEAM of students from an Isleworth girls school has been judged to be pretty clever, by coming first in the borough's heats for the 2004 National Mock Trial Competition held this week at Feltham Magistrates' Court. The team, from Gumley House Convent
-
Date
Bail for former addict
A former drug addict who was worried about going back to prison in case he was tempted to start again was bailed for three weeks at Feltham court last week. Steven John Lonsborough aged 28, of no fixed address admitted stealing two DVD players and other
-
Date
Dont mess with us, dog owners told
DOG owners who have fallen foul of Chiswick residents will be forced to rethink their animal's toilet trips after the Council acted on locals' complaints. For months the pavements along Ashbourne Grove and Fraser Street in Chiswick have been littered
-
Date
John to give gospel
A PERFORMANCE of the one-man play The Gospel According to John' has been chosen by St Michael and All Angels Church, Chiswick to mark Palm Sunday. The play will feature actor John Griffiths, who has performed with the Royal National Feature and has recently
-
Date
What you think about...council tax
RESIDENTS in Hounslow are bracing themselves for an increase in Council Tax next year as it was announced on March 9 that costs would rise a further 6.9 per cent, with the average home looking at a bill of over £1,250. Taxpayers had been preparing themselves
-
Date
BAA strategy too little, too late
BAA Heathrow this week published its Water Quality Strategy for the next five years, but it has already been criticised as too little, too late by protesters. The report sets out how BAA will manage surface, foul and ground water at the airport up to
-
Date
PMs line on airnoise is 'far from convincing'
DR JENNY Tonge, MP for Hounslow's neighbouring constituency, Richmond Park, has criticised the Prime Minister's response to a question regarding concerns that noise pollution in the borough will rise if runway alternation at Heathrow is to cease. The
-
Date
Hoardings cleared by inspector
Advertising company Van Wagner have won an appeal to keep two hoarding towers; one on display on top of the old texaco garage along the M4 elevated section, and the other at Brentford, located above the new Casualty Plus site. The hoardings, especially
-
Date
Council surveyor leaves children breathless
An Isleworth family are reaching desperation with their Hounslow Homes residence as they claim cramped, damp conditions have left them with health problems. Nina Hartnell, 27, lives in a two bedroom flat on Wheatley Road with her partner and their four
-
Date
Vicious attack left OAP with head wound
ROBBERS left an elderly gentleman with a nasty gash on his head after they attacked him and stole £70 in cash while he lay dazed on the floor. The Asian pensioner was returning from a trip to Hounslow and had got off a bus on South Street, Isleworth,
-
Date
From here to maternity
LOOKING at Lucie Jansen and Cathy Turner sitting in a caf in Chiswick, with their two happy bouncing baby boys, it is easy to assume that they both have the perfect life. And indeed, they have better lives than most, but both these women's lives, it
-
Date
Tchaikovsky concert
A BBC Young Musician of the Year' is to play Tchaikovsky at a Church in Chiswick later this month. Sarah Tindy is building up her stamina for one of the most demanding roles a pianist can tackle: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1. She will be the soloist
-
Date
A marathon effort
A Performance coach from Chiswick is in preparation for her first ever entry in the London Marathon in April in aid of Cancer Research UK. Harriet Beveridge, 30, told the Times: "I'm not a natural athlete by any stretch of the imagination, but I've
-
Date
Half a century on and were still dancing
FORMER pupils of the Jean Inwards School of Dance, based in Hanworth Park, have raised over £3,500 of funding for the Shooting Star Trust to help build a hospice for terminally sick children. In May, Principal Mrs Jean Bridle, wrote to the Times to find
-
Date
Get spring in your step for Mothers day
AS the coldness of winter subsides and the warmth and promise of spring emerges, Kew Gardens is flooded with colours and scents to excite the senses - as two and a half million bulbs burst into flower and create the perfect place to spoil mothers and
-
Date
Fascinated by the primal female
ART lovers in West London are set to be electrified by Lucie Bennett's next solo show RAUNCH', which celebrates spring with a brand-new exhibition glorifying the female form and sexuality, showing at the Caspar Dunstan Gallery in Shepherds Bush on Thursday
-
Date
RESPECT - find out what it means
A NEW political organisation currently being set up to prepare a challenge to the three mainstream political parties in the June elections for the Greater London Assembly and the European Parliament is to launch its South West branch this weekend, covering
-
Date
Backing a winner
REACT, the locally-based charity which gives help to families caring for terminally ill children at home, backed a huge winner last week when they visited Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium for a night's racing and dinner. Jacky Sales, chair of React's Friends
-
Date
BBC journalist is rocking the boat
A BBC journalist, who lives locally has lambasted plans by the BBC to reschedule the running of the Oxford/Cambridge Boat Race from a Saturday lunch time, to a Sunday evening. In the year that the race celebrates its 150th anniversary and the last year
-
Date
Little Miss fundraiser
FUNDRAISER Emma-Louise Harding, a personal assistant from Chiswick, has announced she will be joining the Children with Leukaemia Mr Men and Little Miss team at this year's upcoming Flora London Marathon. On April 18, Emma-Louise will join over 1,000
-
Date
Fire ripped through day care centre
FIREFIGHTERS from Chiswick were called out to a fire ripping through a day centre and destroying around a quarter of the three-storey building earlier this week. Neighbours alerted the fire service after seeing flames coming from the roof of the Metanoia
-
Date
Remember the history that floated by
THE RIVER Thames, London's very reason for existence, is the star of a new exhibition by English Heritage, which is showing at the Kew Bridge Steam Museum in Brentford. The exhibition Liquid History', provides a window on the story of the Capital by
-
Date
Convent nearing completion
ST MARY'S Convent in Burlington Lane, Chiswick W4, is celebrating the end of the third phase of the modernisation of its nursing home, which converted the new kitchen and dining room areas. Sister Jennifer from St Mary's Convent commented: "The dining
-
Date
Rail service worst in the capital
A SURVEY by the Liberal Democrats released this week shows that commuters in South West London have the worst rail service in London. The figures show that almost three times as many trains run by SW Trains were delayed in February 2004 compared with
-
Date
Travel buddies get a pat on the back
A BUDDY scheme to help people with learning disabilities use public transport has attracted national acclaim. The Travel Buddy Service, run by Hounslow Council, employs people with learning disabilities to help others with learning disabilities become
-
Date
Health board seeks new member
RESIDENTS with an interest in healthcare issues are being encouraged to join the Board of Hounslow Primary Care Trust. The PCT is seeking a new non-executive director - and people who are interested in applying are invited to attend an information session
-
Date
Baroque and roll
CHISWICK Baroque' are to stage an evening of vocal harmony including pieces by Monteverdi, Bruckner, and Grieg at St Saviour Wendell Park Church on Cobbold Road in Hammersmith on Saturday March 20. The concert, which will feature five part vocal harmony
-
Date
Thiefs lack of charity
A HEARTLESS thief made off with £20 from a charity box destined to help children in war torn countries. The thief entered the One Stop Shop on Bear Road, Hanworth, at around 9.15pm on Sunday March 7, walked up to the counter and snatched the box, which
-
Date
Somali conference hopes for support
MORE than 60 students and parents with Somali backgrounds attended a special conference this week to find out more about the education support and advice services on offer within the borough. The conference was aimed at increasing the level of opportunities
-
Date
Wifes kettle attack
In a row with her drunk and violent husband a woman threw a kettle of boiling water at him and scalded his back. She was arrested later and when she appeared at Feltham court last week Ketty Nalletamby, was given a conditional discharge after magistrates
-
Date
Chatts building up a CV
YOUNG people thinking about a career in the construction industry had the chance to meet employers, hear about training and find out about real job vacancies at a special event held this week by the Notting Hill Housing Group, funded by the Chiswick Park
-
Date
Vigilance can beat terrorists
TUBE commuters using the borough's stations are being asked to be vigilant against possible terrorist attacks in London, following the bomb blasts in Madrid that claimed more than 200 lives. As part of the continuing Government campaign against the threat
-
Date
Potential must be released and realised'
FELTHAM Community College, which is open to adults and the community as well as its 1265 students and 85 teachers, boasts a population of 1,500 sports users a week and 2,500 long term adult education users per year, putting it at the very heart of the
-
Date
Creating young citizens
OVER 1,500 students learnt valuable safety lessons this week, when they came up against a series of dangerous' mock scenarios as part of the 2004 Hounslow Junior Citizens Scheme, staged at Feltham Fire Station throughout the week. Among the 10 different
-
Date
Police launch crackdown on illegal cabs
POLICE have a localised initiative with officers from Transport for London in order to clamp down on unlicensed minicabs, which operate in Chiswick, in response to concerns from local residents and Pub Watch groups. The initiative, which was taken last
-
Date
Giants of science lecture at school
TWO of the most famous names in British Science and Technology visited a girls' school in Hounslow this week as part of the National Science Week. Professor Lord Robert Winston, a leading fertility expert and BBC presenter, and Trevor Bayliss OBE, a
-
Date
CPZ scheme delay
EALING council have delayed the introduction of a Controlled Parking Zone that shopkeepers in Chiswick claimed would be disastrous for business. The Zone R Southfields' CPZ will now come into effect on March 22 - a week later than originally planned,
-
Date
Mum just keeps bouncing back
A HOUNSLOW mother is going to put her excess energy to good use as she takes part in a charity trampoline event for Cystic Fibrosis Week. Lorraine Norris, of Clare Road, has a personal connection with the organisers, Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Her son, five-year-old
-
Date
Elderly sisters duped
BOGUS callers tricked two elderly sisters in to letting them into their home, before making off with £140 in cash. The sisters, who share a home in Fauconberg Road, Chiswick, answered a knock on the door at 5.30pm on Wednesday March 10. They were greeted
-
Date
Sues off to peru-se south America
A LOCAL fashion sales consultant will be trekking through Peru next month to raise money for the clean water charity appeal Just a Drop. Sue Park, 45, of Grove Park, Chiswick will spend five days walking from the town of Cuscu to the Inca settlement
-
Date
Businesses urged to support conference
BUSINESSES in Hounslow are being urged this week to have their say in future plans for housing, jobs and transport in the area. Six months on from the start of a project aimed at creating a healthier, more prosperous region, West London Business (WLB
-
Date
Harriers take off in towpath race bid
ONE of west London's premier road races has been boosted by a 50-strong mass entry from Chiswick based PR company Text 100 which is aiming to raise more than £10,000 for a breast cancer charity. The company, whose offices are in Power Road, Chiswick
-
Date
Ralph delivers the goods
MAKING his debut at London West express parcel delivery company, Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express is Depot Manager, Ralph Ogunbiyi. Ralph, aged 43, arrives to take pole position in his role at Nightspeed Secure Worldwide Express, which is based on
-
Date
Is your house water efficient?
CUSTOMERS across the Thames Water area are to receive a questionnaire with their water bills, as part of a survey to find out whether they are water efficient. Around two million customers will, from later this month, be sent an insert with their bills
-
Date
Esportas finances are in good health
DIRECTORS of the chain of Esporta health clubs, one of which is in Chiswick, have reported like for like growth of 30 per cent for the month of February in its UK racquets clubs. Overall the company achieved 17 per cent growth in its 61 UK businesses
-
Date
Paint your childs room with skybluepink
TWO dynamic and creative West London mothers have just launched an exciting new children's interiors company. Skybluepink, the brainchild of Julia Johnston and Diane Chandler, will help busy parents and parents-to-be create nurseries, bedrooms and playrooms
-
Date
New homes for the high road at Gallard Homes
A NEW development along Chiswick High Road is offering home-buyers apartments in this sought after part of town. There are 31 properties in total at the Galliard Homes' development at 548-550 Chiswick High Road. The site comprises a mixture of one,
-
Date
MP welcomes Browns budget
REVELATIONS in this year's budget by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown will lead to more money being made available for schools in the area, according to local Labour MP Ann Keen, who is personal private secretary to the Chancellor. An extra £8.5
-
Date
Accountants expand
WITH an ever-growing number of businesses and individuals being "selected" by the Inland Revenue using their random selection approach to tax investigations, Hounslow based Chartered Accountants, Charles Stuart LLP, have expanded their Tax Investigations
-
Date
Wilkinsons back
HOUNSLOW'S new-look Wilkinson store has re-opened with a family fun day celebration. High street retailer Wilkinson closed its Treaty Centre store during the past week as the final part of a major refurbishment programme to create an "even better shopping
-
Date
Icelands fresh new look
HOUNSLOW shoppers will have a fantastic new-look Iceland on their doorsteps when the store reopens this Friday March 5, following a major £200,000 refurbishment. The store refit will give local customers a more extensive range including a greater range
