May 2008 Archives

A month-long calender of events for older people begins on Saturday as the 16th annual 50+ Festival gets underway.

Every year in June CIP Arts Team in conjunction with the Older People's Festival Committee put on a celebration of the borough's 50+ community including workshops and opportunities, healthy living and information days, trips down memory lane and windows of opportunity to tomorrows' world.

This year the Hounslow Chronicle's own Eddie Menday (pictured) will open the festival at the Paul Robeson Theatre.

A Hounslow woman has been fined £2,000 for buying a new home while claiming £7,600 in false housing benefits after being shopped by an anonymous informant.

Susan Kaur Sarai, 37, of Garrison Close, Hounslow, pleaded guilty to committing housing benefit fraud at Brentford Magistrates Court after the Hounslow Council fraud team were tipped off by an anonymous informant who claimed she owned a property in another borough.

Two people had a miraculous escape after their car burst into flames while they were still inside.

Firefighters spent nearly half an hour tackling this blaze in Wellington Avenue, Hounslow, on Monday night.

A renowned Hounslow dancer received one of India's most prestigious awards.

Pratap Pawar, of Great West Road, Osterley, was presented with the Padmashree award by president Pratibha Patil in New Delhi earlier this month.

Saturday, May 31
Paul Robeson Theatre. Hounslow's Older People's Festival. Opening ceremony feat cabaret by Ravenscourt Theatre School, Indian folk dance by Golden Age Ladies and Arab dance by Celia Calsikan. Compered by Hounslow Chronicle historian Eddie Menday. £2. 2pm. Call 0845 456 2840.

Everyone's heard of Pop Idol, but the Chronicle has launched a four-week contest which will leaf the others behind

Welcome to Tree Idol, where we're asking readers to nominate their favourite tree to be in the running to win £50 to spend on their garden.

Nature lovers can take part in a guided bat walk through Cranford Park tomorrow (Friday).

Walkers will leave from the park's visitor centre, near St Dunstan's Church, at 9pm.

A man was knocked to the ground and robbed as he walked through Hounslow during the early hours on Sunday.

The 28-year-old victim had left Horizons Bar in Hanworth Road at about 4am and was walking past Wheelhouse in Bell Road when he was struck on the jaw.

Friends and family of Elouise Littlewood have organised a fundraiser in her memory.

The event, on May 26, will raise cash for the Shooting Star Children's Hospice.

A former nurse who trained at West Middlesex Hospital has become Hounslow's first mayor to live outside the borough.

Genevieve Hibbs, who has represented the Independent Community Group (ICG) in Isleworth since 2002, was elected on Tuesday evening.