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Popular pub the Magpie and Crown re-opened today as negotiations with the owners took a turn for the better.

Punters returned to the Brentford High Street boozer at lunchtime, only a few weeks after landlords announced they would be closing due to being unable to meet demands for a 15 per cent rent increase.

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.

A Landlord and Landlady are enjoying a double celebration this week as their Brentford pub wins an award only days after their wedding.

Ralph and Sue Clifton, lessees of The Griffin in Brook Road South, got married on Saturday and were presented with the Local Pub of the Year on Wednesday.

A campaigner who has spent the last 20 years fighting to save Gunnersbury Park was honoured at a Downing Street reception.

Bela Cunha was invited to meet Mr and Mrs Brown at last Thursday's 'Heroes of the Community' event after being nominated by MP Anne Keen.

The head cocktail mixologist at a Brentford bar has proved he knows his Singapore Slings from his Sangrias after winning two prestigious competitions.

Within the past two months, Rod Eslamieh, 32, who works at The Old Fire Station Bar and Grill in Brentford High Street, has won the London heat of the international Jack Daniels Cocktail competition and the Pepsi RAW National Cocktail Competition.

Calls have continued to flood into Chronicle towers regarding strange sightings in Brentford's skies.

Following last week's revelations that a bright orb was spotted above Brentford high street it seems many have found the confidence to announce that they too have seen what can only be described as UFOs.

Groupies, stalkers, hordes of screaming fans and a rock star's welcome at his favourite nightspot - life is looking good for Big Brother star Marcus Akin.

The 35-year-old former window fitter emerged from the famous reality TV house on Friday after surviving a creditable 13 weeks on the show, and stepped into a new life in the limelight.

Brentford's Marcus Akin was evicted from Channel4 reality TV show Big Brother on Friday - just a week before the final.

The 35-year-old window fitter and self-proclaimed 'Irrepresible Dark Horse', had survived a creditable 13 weeks but he luck finally ran out on Friday when he was shown the door with 64% of the public vote.

Brentford High Street may be dogged with problems but no-one would have banked on an alien invasion being the next piece of trouble to fly it's way.

Gladys Ortiz of Windmill Road has always enjoyed watching the sky at night however at the beginning of August she noticed something that was a lot more interesting than your average star.

Wraysbury man Henry Butt has told how a decaying boat he bought from a Brentford shipyard turned out to have previously owned by the Royal Family.

Mr Butt was looking to buy a new boat when he found the remains of a 27ft Jolly Boat in 1993, later discovering it was one of two vessels used by the royals to go ashore from the Royal Yacht Britannia.