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moving back to brentford

we are thinking of moving back after 12 years. ive visited loads (family in the area) but will be coming back with my own kids so a bit different to my youth! we are thinking of lateward road..any comments or ideas on the area, whats the park like these days? how is it to live opposite the park?is it still a quiet safe area, especially for kids..oh and i have a teenager too! anything to do for them? most of my teenage years was spent in camden, deperate to get away from the area..how times change! now i cant wait to get back!  Oh, and i cant believe the prices of house either......any comments from residents of lateward road would be much appreciated..also if anyone knows of anyone selling there i would be interested! thanx ..

Jane Lawrenson ● 5898d4 Comments ● 5884d

Silver Metal Framed Bunk beds for sale

about 1yr old in perfect conditionComes with 2 mattresses in perfect conditionwith instructions to build and Allen keyBed Size: W84.5  L185  H161cm  and Weight 38gSame as In Argos book Cat Number 692/6195Cost New £240 with MattressesWill take £100 no offersPrivate email me if interested: simon_anderson1973@yahoo.co.uk

Simon Anderson ● 5886d1 Comments ● 5885d

Promotional A3 desk pads

Does anyone have one to give away to promote their business/company?The one I'm using is down to the last sheet! ;-(I'm very happy to come and pick it up.Thanks

Nick Jenkins ● 5886d0 Comments ● 5886d

Gillette Corner

Any body know what is being filmed at Gillette's ?

Craig Quilliam ● 5886d0 Comments ● 5886d

Swing & Jazz Performance at The Watermans October 2nd

Hi guys!My name is Charlie Costin, and on the 2nd October 2010 i'm going to be performing at The Watermans Theatre, singing Swing & Jazz songs from the likes of Sinatra to Bobby Darin and more!I'm going to have a feature in tomorrow's Chronicle with some more information about the show but I was wondering if any of you were interested in coming? (We've also got an afterparty being held at The Six Bells afterwards which everyones welcome to join).I've got some youtube videos and a website as well with some recordings etc. if you fancied having a look beforehand! my website is http://www.charliecostin.com and if you wanted to have a look at the youtube videos, just go on there and type "Charlie Costin"If you are interested, just drop me an E-Mail at charliecostin@hotmail.co.ukI'm promising it's going to be one helluva' show!Look forward to maybe seeing you there!!Charlie Costin

Charlie Costin ● 5886d0 Comments ● 5886d

Brilliant display, brilliant result

Surprised nobody has mentioned it by now - Phil Neville, Phil Jagielka, Yakubu, Marouane Fellaini (get your hair cut!), Leighton Baines, Mikel Arteta, Sylvain Distin, we kicked your butts!

Phil Andrews ● 5888d8 Comments ● 5887d

HEALTH & SAFETY EMERGENCY  HOUNSLOW COUNCIL'S CUSTOMER SERVICE RESPONSE

My daugther is a council tenant and has an emergency, by this I mean that the glass light fitting has fallen from her bathroom ceiling and is dangling by the Electrical Wiring as it has done since early this morning. Council Workmen were obviously inept in the first place seeing that instead of the Light Fitting being correctly attached it was actaully stuck onto the Ceiling. My daugther rang Hounslow Customer Services this morning to register the Health & Safety Emergency and was told that yes! it would be treated as an Emergency however because it was to be treated as such there would be a time frame of 48 Hours BUT!!! no actual time was given we have taken turns today to sit in and wait for the Maintenance person all to no avail. My daughter's a Widow of 18 Month's with a young child and chooses to work instead of getting Social Benefits. Consequently she phoned customer services this evening to explain that we had waited in all day but she had to now go back to work until 8.30( my grandaugther is at this moment in our lounge doing her homework) she did not and neither did I expect the woman who answered her call this evening to say that it all depended on what she considered a prority. Putting bread on ones table is priority enough, this young women needs to be sent on a course on how to deal with customer service requests politely and sympathetically not with condescension. What do our Council consider an EMERGENCY? just supposing the fitting had fallen or was to fall onto either my daughter's head or my grandaughter - what would their reaction have been?Mr & Mrs Councillor's you need to be aware of how your staff are demeaning the Council and make them aware that an Emergency should be treated as such and sorted out A.S.A.P. Both our daughter and grandaughter have had there showers around our house today and will also it would seem tomorrow.

Dawn Hardy ● 5888d3 Comments ● 5887d

Oh dear...

"Sue Sampson stands no chance whatsoever of being elected as a Councillor in Isleworth."- Steve Taylor, Spokesperson for the politically impartial 'Mogden Residents Action Group', TW8 Forum, 02/01/10 21:14:00ISLEWORTH ELECTION RESULT 06/05/10:Sue Sampson (LAB) 1,914 (Elected)Mindu Bains (LAB) 1,872 (Elected)Ed Mayne (LAB) 1,819 (Elected)Phil Andrews (ICG) 1,741 (Not elected)Paul Fisher (ICG) 1,530 (Not elected)Andrew Binns (CON) 1,322 (Not elected)Andrew Sibley (ICG) 1,312 (Not elected)Jenny Stoker (CON) 1,260 (Not elected) Jane Vougioukas (CON) 993 (Not elected)Ferris, John (GRN) 693 (Not elected)

Robin Taylor ● 5888d2 Comments ● 5888d

Buttercups Syon Park

We're looking at placing our 3 year old at this nursery - does anyone have any experience of it?

Sarah Tonks ● 5889d0 Comments ● 5889d

Thames Tunnel and Mogden

I've finally got round to glancing at the proposals for the Thames Tunnel (mentioned on the Forum front page and details of consultation athttp://www.thamestunnelconsultation.co.uk/            )Obviously I haven't been keeping up because I thought that it was going to be the answer to the problem of Mogden sewahge works overflowing into the Thames, carrying the surplus downstream to Beckton.The plans show it is only going to go as far west as the Acton storm tanks. So if Mogden overflows, sewage will still go into the river to kill the fish, poison the rowers and make Brentford smell.After that surprise google then found for me the minutes of the March 2009 meeting athttp://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/%28S%28to3ted35c21nxr55eb24vind%29%29/mgAi.aspx?ID=44727where the Sustainable Development C'tee were discussing the Mogden expansion proposals. As I skimmed them it seemed to imply that Thames Water reckoned the larger capacity would reduce the frequency of discharges :"Mr Aylard  explained that the flow into the works was not constant and more arrived at the works after it rained, which had to be treated, stored or discharged into the river rather than allowing it to back up. The proposal would provide a new treatment stream, which would increase and improve capacity by approximately one third for better treatment of the sewage. The proposals would not bring any more sewage to Modgen and discharge into the river would go down to approximately once a year." The minutes record "Councillor Dakers asked why the Thames Tunnel could not be extended to Mogden and used for overflow. " and got the response "The Tunnel was only a long thin storage tank and it needed to be a certain size to work properly. The furthest the tunnel would go upstream was to Chiswick Ait. Heavy rainfall and sewage would go into the Tunnel and on to Beckton, where it was pumped out. The Tunnel could not be extended because the cost benefit analysis did not allow for the extra four miles to Mogden. "If Mogden is the major source of the problem and the place where the storm water from the sewers of most of North and West London ends up, it doesn't seem satisfactory to continue to let it annually poison the Thames while Thames Water spend the money on a greenwash PR campaign to fund an expensive "long thin storage tank" that won't solve the problem.Or has anyone seen the figures to convince themselve that it will all work happily ?

Tim Henderson ● 5893d3 Comments ● 5889d

brentford high street

brentford high street is now reopen to traffic

Sharon Allen ● 5889d1 Comments ● 5889d

Rare ebay item - Brentford Dock Railway

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMAPNY & BRENTFORD RAILWAY LINE and BRENTFORD DOCK.http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GREAT-WESTERN-RAILWAY-CANAL-BRENTFORD-PAPERS-etc-/290462884163?pt=UK_Collectables_Railwayana_RLThis file, which is 50mm thick, contains PHOTOCOPIES of Acts of Parliament, Indentures, Letters, Articles from magazines, Parliamentary Proceedings, Auction catalogues one of which includes plans of the land for auction, Track plans,Drawings of buildings,etc. About three quarters of the file are copies of documemts, etc from the 1860's to 1900, another eighth are from 1900 to 1930's, the rest are more modern. An interesting archive which was compiled by a local historian.

Neil Chippendale ● 5924d21 Comments ● 5889d

I'm over from next Friday

I'll be in the UK for two weeks from next Friday, sadly not staying in Brentford. I hope to catch up with some of you over the few weeks I'm in the UK.

Neil Chippendale ● 5893d2 Comments ● 5890d

Reisdents launch LBH Watch

A powerful new resident-led monitoring body has been launched with a view to highlighting and addressing some of the major flaws in the Civic Centre bureaucracy that came to be identified during the last days of the previous council administration.Endless battles at IBAC (Isleworth & Brentford Area Committee) between elected councillors and intransigent and belligerent Chief Officers revealed some very fundamental deficiencies in the member-officer relationship in Hounslow. ICG councillors in particular encountered a metaphorical brick wall when attempting to open up the process of local government and to introduce more accountability and openness.Delivering its launch statement, LBH Watch Chair Ian Speed emphasised that the new body enjoyed cross-party support, and its current members were drawn from all across the local political spectrum.The full statement reads:"Following the local elections at which all community and third party representation on Hounslow council was wiped out and replaced with a classic two party system only, a group of concerned residents have formed to address any democratic or performance deficits the London Borough of Hounslow may have in administering or delivering its services in your area. The issue that has caught the imagination of most members of the group is Planning, as administered by the Environment & Planning Department and the local Area and council wide Strategic Development Committees. However, we would be very happy to hear from any citizen who has concerns about the way LB Hounslow delivers or administers its services."We are in the process of designing a website with the following key elements:    * A High level section for borough wide issues such as Customer Service standards.    * The key contentious isssues for each of the Area Committees (mainly planning issues and traffic management).    * A self-help section giving residents a guide as to whom to write to or complain to if they are not happy about the way a service is being delivered or administered."We would be interested in hearing from any member of the Hounslow Borough Community who would like to contribute concerns via email or attend one of our meetings. The next meeting is on the evening of Monday 2nd August."We have created an email address at lbhwatch@aol.com. Please email us or text/leave a message on 07835 379595 if you wish to attend a meeting."LBH Watch has also published a list of six Aims and Objectives, which are as follows:    * We believe Hounslow council services should be run according to best practice within the law.    * We believe council officers, however senior, should be fully answerable to councillors and local residents and taxpayers.    * We believe in greater democratic leadership and outward accountability for decision-making to local people.    * We believe that council staff and members should respond to residents' concerns in a prompt, honest and comprehensive manner and act with impeccable integrity at all times.    * We believe Hounslow council services should be delivered as transparently and cost-effectively as possible.    * We encourage members and officers to adhere to the spirit of the Motion on Community Empowerment as approved unanimously by the previous council."The range of talents and expertise that LBH Watch is already able to call upon is quite simply vast. It will use every means available to highlight bad practice and to bring answerability and transparency to our local government.I envisage LBH Watch playing a seminal role in ensuring that the concerns of the community are heard during the four years of the current council administration and maybe beyond. Please don't hesitate to get in touch if you think you may be able to help.from A Community In Action - http://philandrews.blogspot.com

Phil Andrews ● 5943d85 Comments ● 5890d

Market Research/Italian and Greek people needed

have been asked by my daughter to help find people for a Market Research project. The following is the information she provided:Groups are taking place on Tues 21st in central London at Wyoming, 72 Margaret Street, London, W1W 8ST They are 2 hours long, Italian people 6-8pm, Greeks 8.15-10.15pm  Respondents need to be...Aged 25-40 Male or Female Working (ideally not students)Will be talking about alcohol so no Tea totalers Ideally they will have been in the UK less than 6 months (but willing to flex this but the less Anglo-sised they are the better) - We want to talk to them about early evening drinking occasions in their home country so this needs to be fresh in their minds They will be paid £55 for the 2 hour session.If anyone knows anyone who fits the bill can you please respond to me either on the forum, by PM.Thanks in advanceMaggie

Maggie Dodge ● 5892d0 Comments ● 5892d

Now I'm getting really ticked off!

When the Pope's visit to the UK was announced I really didn't care one way or another - except for the money it was going to cost us taxpayers. However, the huge fuss the BBC in particular is causing over this has really got my goat, they have appaprently got 400 people covering this event, 400? Are they completely mad? The more it's all gone on and the more I hear from assorted interviewees the more I think it's wrong. This visit from someone who opposes some of the things we have enshrined in law really shouldn't be happening, it is insulting to so many people who live here, not least those who have suffered so terribly at the hands of the church this man leads. 

Vanessa Smith ● 5894d2 Comments ● 5892d

burst water main

brentford high street closed due to burst water main by costcutter The Ham is flooded and road between The magpie and crown and Six bells

Sharon Allen ● 5902d28 Comments ● 5893d

Brenford Festival Dog show photos

hi to everyonei just wanted to let everyone know that the photos from this years dog show at the brentford festival are now being uploaded on my site www.sitdogtraining.bravehost.com just go to photo page and it will take you to the albums.i have nearly finsihed all of the upload, so go along and see if your pic is there.Also big thank you for all the entries again this year, the dogs were all very well behaved and the onwers werent too bad either!!!!! just kidding, it was once again a lovely day and i think we owe a huge thank you to the organisers for allowing us to join in the fun.see you all next year maybe? oh next year we have plans for something extra special at the end of the day.suzanne

Suzanne Evans ● 5893d0 Comments ● 5893d

Home required - kitten

Friends cat had kittens and one is left and still looking for a new homeAdorable black female kitten in need of a loving home. Will be ready for collection from Friday 24th September. Please let me know if you can be that special someone to give this little girl the love she needs.Have picture if you would like to see her (don’t know how to put up here)

Tracy Burke ● 5894d2 Comments ● 5893d

alarm

Does anybody know whose alarm has been going off in Brentford (heard from Clifden Road) for over 24 hours? can't believe nobody has reported it

Margaret Wittich ● 5896d1 Comments ● 5894d