Don’t neglect your mental health in lockdown
Looking after your mental health is more important than ever at the moment. As well as exercise, there are other ways to help with your mental wellbeing during this stressful and strange period of our lives. Staying in touch with loved ones and friends when the restrictions prevent us from doing so in person is […]
Sport lessons at school prove to be an inspiration
“The impact was almost immediate,” said the headteacher of a primary school where coaches from a football club have transformed sport by inspiring the children to Get Moving and form healthy habits for a lifetime. Brentford FC Community Sports Trust has been helping hundreds of schoolchildren in the borough in this way. And one school […]
Toy library brings fun that can be enjoyed again and again
Ealing Toy Library is an eco-friendly project set up in August 2019 by a pair of friends eager to see the concept become more popular in the UK, having seen how common it was in Australia and New Zealand. Environmentally, and economically, the first couple of years of a child’s life is not always ideal. […]
How Ealing got ready to remember
People across the borough will stop what they are doing to observe a two minutes’ silence on Thursday (11 November) as the country pauses to remember those who lost their lives in conflict. On Sunday (8 November), the borough’s main Remembrance Sunday memorial service took place on Ealing Green, in front of Pitzhanger Manor House […]
Cargo bike delivery service for local businesses
Ealing Council is now offering a free cargo bike delivery service for businesses within the Ealing Broadway, West Ealing and Northfield areas, on a trial basis – to help in the build-up to Christmas. A cycle courier (from the council’s cycle training provider Cycling Instructor Ltd) will collect parcels ordered online from participating businesses and […]
Picture-perfect achievement for pupil who loves art
“To be honest, nothing could prepare me for the day when I saw his art work displayed on the walls of the Royal Academy of Arts,” said the proud mum of a local primary school pupil after his painting of a local landmark was chosen for an exhibition. Edward Tabarac is 10 years old and […]
High alert status reflects increasing COVID-19 cases
I’m sure all of you will have heard the government’s decision yesterday to move London into the ‘high’, or Tier 2, local COVID restrictions category, from one minute past midnight tonight: Friday, 16 October, says Councillor Julian Bell, leader of Ealing Council in his latest coronavirus video message (see above). This was agreed by all […]
London raised to ‘high’ Tier 2 status for COVID-19
The government has announced that the whole of London, including Ealing, has had its COVID-19 alert status raised. London is now moving to Tier 2, or ‘high’. Council leader Julian Bell said: “The number of COVID-19 cases in Ealing and across London are rapidly rising, so it is no surprise that government have moved London […]
Keeper at Hanwell Zoo gets national award
A keeper at Hanwell Zoo has been recognised with a national award – calling him a ‘rising star’ for his leading role in the zoo’s conservation and education programmes. For those who do not know, Hanwell Zoo is nestled in the picturesque Brent Lodge Park, a view of which Queen Victoria is said to have […]
Black History Month: Life in 1950s Ealing
October is national Black History Month. The borough has a proud tradition of diversity and people from many backgrounds have settled here. In the 1950s the black community was, however, not particularly large. In 1958 the local newspaper for Ealing, The Middlesex County Times, ran an interview with one of the relatively few black people […]
When we last faced a virus pandemic
The influenza pandemic of 1918-1919 had a global impact and our district was not unaffected, writes borough archivist Dr Jonathan Oates. It began in the autumn of 1918 and then there was second wave in the spring of 1919. This may sound very familiar. As now, viruses spread in the air between people who were […]
Not too late to enter wildlife photo competition
There are still a couple of days left to enter the borough’s annual wildlife photo competition – and young people are particularly being encouraged to get involved. Run by Ealing Wildlife Group (EWG), the photo competition is in its fourth year, having proved incredibly popular. It will lead to an exhibition of photography in Walpole […]