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District and Piccadilly line closure weekend 10/11 April

This weekend 10/11 April there is no service between Earl's Court and Richmond or between West Kensington and Ealing Broadway, on the District line.On the Piccadilly line there is no service between Hammersmith and Northfields or between Hammersmith and Ealing Common or between Rayners Lane and Uxbridge. The Uxbridge branch of the Metropolitan line is not affected. Additionally there is no London Overground service between Gunnersbury and Stratford on Sunday. All due to planned engineering work.The Central line is planned to run a normal service throughout the entire line.London Underground will be providing three rail replacement bus services as follows:Service A – for customers making local journeys between these stations only:Hammersmith - Ravenscourt Park - Stamford Brook - Turnham Green - Chiswick Park - Gunnersbury - Acton Town - Ealing Common - Ealing Broadway - South Ealing - Boston ManorService B – for all customers travelling between central London and Heathrow Airport in either direction: Ealing Broadway - Boston Manor, non-stop. Single deck low-floor buses suitable for transporting customers with luggage will be used for this service.Service C – for customers travelling between central London and Heathrow branch stations, but NOT Heathrow Airport Hammersmith – Osterley, non-stopFor more information please go to:  http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/livetravelnews/

Patrick Green ● 6057d1 Comments ● 6057d

Room Wanted in Holland Gardens!!!! 17/04/2010

I am desperately seeking a room to rent in the Holland Gardens Development in Brentford from 17/04/2010. Please get in touch if you have anything.

Ed Knowles ● 6057d0 Comments ● 6057d

Schools in Brentford

Brentford TW8. COM has highlighted the problem Brentford families are having finding schools near at hand. The problem is particularly difficult for boys ready for secondary school.This was a problem waiting to happen. And it will get worse.Brentford has already nearly doubled in size in the last few years. Flats have been built where the land was originally intended for offices. More flats mean more families who need more school places.The new plans did not make provision for new schools in or near Brentford.In the last month the Council has granted planning consent for further housing at Kew Bridge, Albany House and on the former Alfa Laval site on the Great West Road. When developers have the finance to build these schemes about 500 more families will join the search for school places.In addition the Council has already granted consent for housing on the former SmithKlein Beecham site in the Great West Road, the Thames Water site facing Watermans Park and is intending to support housing in the re-built town centre. Again, when finance is available thesedevelopment will add to the pressure for local school places.The Brentford Community Council has repeatedly urged the Council not to expand our population until we can provide the services we need.The Community Council will continue to press for realistic planning.Problems like this one do not need to happen if we think ahead.Denis BrowneChair, Planning Consultative CommitteeBrentford Community Council

Denis M Browne ● 6067d11 Comments ● 6057d

Seen this?

wikileaks.comA report published on the Beebs site about killings in Iraq.Have we really come to this?Last time I looked the site was down (mmm?)I cry.....

Ian Silver ● 6058d0 Comments ● 6058d

Once again, Ann Keen's total expenses claim is BELOW average

TheyWorkForYou.com has now published the latest figures, for the 2008/9 financial year.They rank Health Minister Ann Keen 492nd out of 647 MPs. This means 491 MPs claimed MORE in expenses than she did, and only 155 MPs claimed LESS. Around three quarters of her total expense claim went on employing staff to help with casework.For 6 of the last 7 years, Ann's expenses have been less than most MPs'.With the fantastic work she is doing to help improve our NHS, I think this shows Ann Keen is good value for money.

Councillor Sue Sampson ● 6062d50 Comments ● 6058d

April fool - front page.

Root and Branch Change Planned - Group of councils to switch to artificial trees on local streets.Forgetting the date, it was halfway down "...The consortium has given reassurances that no healthy tree will be cut down unless it is financially advantageous for them to do so...."Trouble is in this day and age and madness - it could all be true!Well done.x

Sarah Felstead ● 6062d1 Comments ● 6059d

Now I know why a Conman is called a Con Artist

What a scam... ‘Artist’ Anish Kapoor and his mates at the Indian Steel company ArcelorMittal have talked us dumb British into parting with £19.1 million of our taxes to build the ArcelorMittal Orbit - arguably the ugliest thing ever constructed in London.They must be laughing all the way to the Bank of the Gangees.http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8597069.stm

Harley Buckner ● 6063d14 Comments ● 6059d

Message For All Local Political Groups

Can i ask all local parties who are delivering leaflets into Teesdale Court (Above Tesco Express, Papa Johns and Ladbrokes) On London Rd PLEASE stop putting Leaflets under the Front Downstair door as NOT all the residents up here use this door and they will just been Cleaned up and dumped in the bin.Please use the stairs at the rear of the building (Via Car Pk) to get to the Flats and place the leaflets threw the doors.If you want residents to read what you ave wrote to gain their Vote then DONT put them UNDER the black Door as they won't get them.Thank You

Simon Anderson ● 6059d0 Comments ● 6059d

West Side Story - how topical!

My youngest son was watching West Side Story on Sky movies this a.m. It has always been one of my favourites and it struck me that it is nearly 50 years since it was made. So what's changed in the intervening years? Gangs, knives,intolerance, seem as relevant today as they did all those years ago, except that they're here now and not confined to the U.S. as we may have so smugly thought when we first saw it.

Vanessa Smith ● 6059d0 Comments ● 6059d

Stench Last Night

Did anyone else suffer during the Night off a Really bad Smell?It smelt like Eggs/?

Simon Anderson ● 6060d2 Comments ● 6060d

Ann Keen in another national newspaper report

With an election coming, I am becoming rather worried about who to vote for.I don't feel comfortable about voting for my current MP. In fact I have moved my vote to parents address where the Labour MP has at least been consistently honourable.What I have heard and read is too much for me to be comfortable with as a lifelong Labour voterHaving just been passed a cutting which I believe is the Sunday Express from last Sunday, I am at a loss as to why this MP can remain in office.This report seems well researched and written, not the usual sort of drivel. It seems rather restrained.I'm surprised no-one else in Brentford has picked up on it or have I missed something.Please Mrs Keen, Come Clean and get this stuff out in the open and dealt with before it is too late.

Anthony Waller ● 6063d52 Comments ● 6061d

Brentford Ait -Did you know?

Brentford Ait is formed of the two big islands off Watermans Park.  The ait was artificially created from a sand spit in the Victorian times to block the view of the Brentford gas and coke works from Kew Gardens.With the exception of a small gap that separates the island in two (for a view of St Georges Church); the sole purpose of the island is to act as green barrier for Kew.  As such the trees are recognised in the Brentford Area Action Plan, the Thames Landscape Strategy, the Kew Gardens World Heritage Site Master Plan and the relevant conservation area study as of strategic importance.   The island includes not just willows but some alder and ash and one or two swamp cypress.  Over the past decade the island has established itself as the largest heronry in London and also has become an important habitat for both the German Hairy Snail and the Two Lipped Doornail. 

John Todd ● 6070d5 Comments ● 6061d

Priorities

Looking at Ann Keen and Mary Macleod's websites, I note that they have put the different areas of the Brentford and Isleworth constituency in completely different orders. Does this reflect their differing priorities?Ann Keen:"Ann Keen MP representing the people of Hounslow, Osterley, Gunnersbury, Brentford, Isleworth and Chiswick."Mary Macleod:"I am the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Chiswick, Brentford, Isleworth, Syon, Osterley and Hounslow."

James de Vivenot ● 6070d38 Comments ● 6061d

The Lion King, Easter Sunday

I have 2 tickets to Disney's (SOLD OUT)  Lion King musical on Easter Sunday at 3pm. (Running time approx. 2h45min) The Lyceum Theatre, Wellington Street, London WC2. Nearest tube station: Covent Garden or Embankment.Seats 19 and 20 at Grand Circle with full view of the stage.Face value: £23.50 each.Please contact 07971927806 or email: amhrienizi@yahoo.dehttp://lyceum.official-theatre.co.uk/

Amra Hajdarevic ● 6062d0 Comments ● 6062d

The Lion King, Easter Sunday

I have 2 tickets to Disney's (SOLD OUT)  Lion King musical on Easter Sunday at 3pm. (Running time approx. 2h45min) The Lyceum Theatre, Wellington Street, London WC2. Nearest tube station: Covent Garden or Embankment.Seats 19 and 20 at Grand Circle with full view of the stage.Face value: £23.50 each.Please contact 07971927806 or email: amhrienizi@yahoo.dehttp://lyceum.official-theatre.co.uk/

Amra Hajdarevic ● 6062d0 Comments ● 6062d

Computer Question ...

Once I had read a posting the title used to darken so I knew which ones I had read and which ones I had missed.  For some reason this darkening has stopped happening so I haven't a clue where to carry on reading when I open the web site.  Anyone know why this happens and how I get this back?Thanks

Sarah Felstead ● 6064d5 Comments ● 6062d

take part in restaurant survey - get stuff in return

Hardens is currently doing its annual restaurant survey, which I complete every year, but it needs responses from lots of people to get them to put in a place outside the main culinary centres - there are lots of places profiled in Chiswick, but restaurants in Acton, Brentford, Ealing, Hanwell and the like are hardly mentioned.So, it would help if you could log on and take part and give your opinion about our local restaurants (and those anywhere else in the UK) – whether good, bad or indifferent.In return, you'll be sent a copy of the new guide on publication (provided you submit at least five reviews – and it's worth it, it's a useful guide), plus the chance to win a trip for two to cognac, plus the chance to win one of six bottles of Remy Martin V.S.O.P champagne cognac.Go to http://www.hardens.com/survey/welcome.php between now and May 1 (they usually extend it by a couple of weeks nearer the time…). You'll have the sign up, naturally (they need to know where to send your copy - usually sent out in November), but that means you'll also be able to access the complete reviews database now.I've no connection with Hardens or any local restaurants - or, occasionally, reality... - jolly good stuff that Remy Martin :^)

D Fox ● 6062d0 Comments ● 6062d

Why are Hounslow Homes showing a house that has not been on Locator yet???

Phil,Will you look into this please, it's bloody disgracefull it's a 4 Bedroom House and everybody deserves a chance at it

Dawn Hardy ● 6069d53 Comments ● 6062d

Au revoir till May 7th

In keeping with my usual practice I'll not be contributing to the local community forums now until after the local election on May 6th.I'll be following the various debates with interest as always and I hope that for all those involved the campaign is an enjoyable one.I can of course be contacted by e-mail or by PM at any time.See ya soon.

Phil Andrews ● 6065d3 Comments ● 6063d

Speed Humps Isleworth

I would like to hear from other Isleworth residents re the Traffic Calming measures in the College Road/Musgrave Road/Borough Road locations.I originally enquired to Hounslow Highways Department on the 5/11/09 as to the maximum legal height of speed bumps, after many emails which answered nothing and with assistance from Barbara Reid an on site meeting was arranged for 10/3/10.I was then informed by a Team Leader from the Highways Dept that the limit was 100mm. I produced a sanding bock which was 100mm in height and placed this by a speed hump in Musgrave Road and it was clearly evident that the height of the hump was just about double the maximum legal limit, which was not denied. I was informed that the problem was historic and that Hounslow did not have the funds to do anything about it. Also that Hounslow had not received enough complaints about cars being damaged and that they had an insurance dept that dealt with these matters.Investigations via the Internet report patients with spinal injuries ending up Paraplegics after ambulances had to negotiate rogue speed humps. Undertakers having to take alternate routes to avoid damaging their vehicles which being long wheelbase were bottoming down causing damage to the under carriage. One North London Council removing all their humps resulting suprisingly in lower accident rates. Does anyone feel the same as I do, I am not against reasonable traffic calming but having spent more than 50 years in the Motor Trade I know that all our vehicles are suffering from premature failure of expensive suspension parts.It would also be interesting to hear how these restrictions affect response times from the Emergency Services.Ron Curant.

Ron Curant ● 6065d5 Comments ● 6063d