Local Authority

Outspoken Brentfordians are being asked to step up and take part in the Neighbourhood Panel.

Formerly known as the Brentford Steering Group, the panel will be holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Monday December 14 at 7pm at a venue yet to be decided.

Tucked away in a quiet corner of a park lies a skilfully crafted and much loved bike trail and old and new users alike are urged to share their stories to unfold its history and preserve its future.

The Gunnersbury Park bike trail which lies along Lionel Road North, is thought to have been used for around 30 years but if a luxury housing development is permitted, BMX bikers would be forced out of the borough and the trail would be lost forever.

The Green Party say they will be meeting with the Mayor of London later this month to discuss their objections to proposals to sell off part of Gunnersbury Park.

Darren Johnson, Green Party Assembly Member, visited the park last month to see the threatened trees and backed the campaign to protect the area and the listed buildings.

This is a bright lively, free dance performance event to re-energise Hounslow High Street, come and do your shopping and be entertained at the same time!

Akademi's Initium is running riot around the country, adapting to and transforming each performance space it encounters. From mountains to mansions, Initium takes its chameleon magic anywhere, absorbing and reinterpreting the landscape. A chair becomes a stage. A wall becomes a proscenium arch.

After a year and a half of adjustments plans to regenerate Brentford can finally go ahead after a finished version of the Brentford Area Action plan is adopted.

Officers told members of the Isleworth and Brentford area committee meeting last Thursday, that the plan which is one of the documents for planning the future development of Brentford, has gone through the required process and is now adoptable.

Sick of looking at your rapidly balding Christmas tree?

Hounslow Council announced any trees will simply be picked up on normal waste collection days during January.

Disabled youngsters battled it out at Brentford Fountain Leisure Centre last Wednesday to mark the London Paralympic handover.

Dozens of children competed in events from running to rowing at the facility in Chiswick High Road, Brentford.

They received medals for their achievements at the event, aimed at highlighting the sporting opportunities for people with disabilities.

Meetings about the future of Brentford's Gunnersbury Park will no longer take place behind closed doors after council leaders bowed to overwhelming public pressure.

Future gatherings of the 'regeneration board', featuring members from the site's joint owners Hounslow and Ealing councils, will be open to all in a bid to quell fears of a sell-off.

A Brentford grandmother has become only the second person in Hounslow to be electronically tagged after falsely claiming more than £13,000 in benefits.

Roberta Gregory, 56, of Perran Walk, was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on August 22 after being found guilty of committing benefit fraud.

Disabled commuters are furious that the slashing of ticket office opening hours by South West trains means lifts will be out of bounds.

With a decline in profits being blamed, Brentford railway stations' office hours are to be cut to just four hours a day, with the lifts that are relied upon by many disabled users, becoming out of bounds outside the hours of 6.30am-10.30am.