February 2009 Archives

Soldiers from Hounslow Barracks will take part in a farewell parade next Thursday, March 5, before heading off to Afghanistan.

More than 300 troops from the Second Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, will march along Hounslow High Street and up to the Civic Centre in Lampton Road.

A brother-and-sister duo from Hounslow are clearly going places after their futuristic bus designs were chosen to appear at a new exhibition.

Inderjit and Harjit Mehroke's eye-catching visions for a new Routemaster have gone on display at London Transport Museum alongside 50 other creations from the competition.

There are just over two weeks left for residents to get their hands on a share of £1.5 million to make over estates in Hounslow.

Hounslow Homes tenants have until March 13 to apply for grants of up to £100,000 as part of the council's Rainbow Project.

SFIDA (Challenge) Albanian/Kosovan/Macedonian and Gorani Women's Group in Hounslow held an informative and enlightening event on the 21st February 2009 in the Green Room at the Treaty Centre in Hounslow to increase awareness within the community about preventing violence and extremism.

They were joined by Karen Snoddy, Adam Garcia and Karmjit Rekhi, police officers from Hounslow's new Prevent and Engagement Team which focuses on supporting individuals who are vulnerable to recruitment by those who promote extremism.

A homeowner in Hounslow West got a nasty shock when he tried to clean his clothes and ended up nearly setting his house alight.

Two engines from Feltham Station raced to the semi-detached property in Connaught Avenue when a washing machine went up in flames at noon on Sunday.

A much-loved lollipop lady was given a rousing send-off by youngsters at Hounslow Heath Infant & Nursery School.

Shirley Geoghegan has hung up her stick after more than 12 years spent helping children to and from the school in Martindale Road, Hounslow.

A Hounslow recruitment firm received a big thank you from Macmillan this week for raising over £7,000 for the cancer support charity.

Staff at Peach Personnel Services, in Hounslow, began fundraising five years ago to support their former colleague Liz Waite, who had been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.

Excitement levels reached fever pitch at Feltham and Hounslow train stations this weekend as spotters and families jostled together for the best view of two magnificent steam engines.

The beautifully restored locomotives, a Tornado No 60163 and an Orient Express lunch train hauled by a Merchant Navy Class Loco 35028, stunned the large crowds as they whistled through stations up and down the line on Saturday.

Plans to outlaw drinking in Lampton Park will go under the spotlight at a public meeting on Thursday next week.

Members of Heston East Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT) will discuss the proposals at Hounslow Civic Centre in Lampton Road, Hounslow, from 7pm till 9pm.

Charles Darwin's incredible beard-growing achievements were celebrated by staff and pupils at The Heathland School on Thursday last week.

Pupils at the school in Wellington Road South, Hounslow, tucked into 'evolutionary pastries' and a cake with 200 candles as they marked the bicentenary of the great man's birth.