FINAL: Pick your perfect pic from the top four
We have reached the final of the Love Your Place: Summer photography competition and we need you to select the winner from the top four pictures. You have already narrowed our shortlist down from eight excellent snaps down to four. And now it is the final reckoning. All four finalists are in the carousel of […]
Which do you love most? Pick a picture
Our Love Your Place: Summer photography contest is heating up. The shortlist has been selected and the public vote is under way to determine which four photos will make it through to the final. The idea of the Love Your Place photography competition is simply for you to show off something, or capture a moment, […]
Help film to rock all over the world
The people behind an acclaimed film about how a small club in Ealing helped shape early rock music into a global phenomenon are hoping to tell the whole world its story. And you can play a role in making that happen. Suburban Steps to Rockland tells the tale of how 1960s Ealing earned the label […]
Thirsty work sees new fountains installed
Ealing received the very first two fountains in a network of more than 100 new drinking water fountains for London. It is part of a range of measures taken by the Mayor of London Sadiq Khan in partnership with Thames Water to reduce the number of single-use plastic water bottles used in the capital and […]
Could you help put local services under scrutiny?
Groups will be meeting regularly again this year at Ealing Council to hear evidence on key subjects ranging from education to parks – and put them under scrutiny. These ‘scrutiny panels’ give you the chance to air your views on important topics and get involved. There are four new panels this year: Scrutiny review panel […]
Comedians come back for more as festivals roll on
After the opening nights of the Ealing Comedy Festival last week, the fun and laughter is back as three more nights of comedians running riot starts tonight (Wednesday, 24 July). Under the big top tent in Ealing’s Walpole Park, the array of top comedians will again be splitting sides and poking a stick at the […]
You don’t have to run to be in the half marathon…
On the last Sunday in September the borough’s streets will once again be filled with crowds as around 7,000 people run the Ealing Half Marathon. Hundreds of local volunteers are crucial to the event taking place: Could you be one? As well as being a key part of a race that has won multiple national […]
Jazz up your summer with a stellar cast of musicians
We are just two weeks from the 2019 Ealing Jazz Festival, featuring the legendary Cymande alongside rising icons Ruby Rushton and Theon Cross. The festival takes place across the weekend of 27–28 July in Walpole Park, in Ealing, between 12noon–10.30pm. Cymande reached cult status in the early 1970s with an exhilarating mix of reggae, funk […]
Raise a glass to the Ealing Beer Festival
Fancy sampling one or two glasses of more than 500 varieties of real ale? The Ealing Beer Festival opens today (Wednesday, 10 July) at Walpole Park. Run by CAMRA (Campaign for Real Ale) but part of the Ealing Summer Festivals, the beer festival will run until Saturday (13 July). It is open between 12noon and […]
Knife crime: ‘How can this pain be glamourised?’
A group of school pupils have ‘made a stand’ against knife crime by making a music video to tackle the issue. Knife violence has been featuring particularly high on the news agenda recently – especially in London – and it tends to involve young people. The Year 9 students from Featherstone High School, in Southall, […]
Time to get a dose of the summer blues
Ealing Blues Festival is fast approaching. The line-up for this year features the cult beatbox bluesman Son of Dave, the award-winning Kyla Brox, Bad Influence and Nick Lowe. The Canadian-born Son of Dave is one of the impressive running order of acts across the weekend of 20-21 July for the festival in Walpole Park in […]
Get moving and get training for Ealing Half Marathon
Each year, many people use the award-winning Ealing Half Marathon in September as a goal and inspiration to #GetMoving. Whether you have never run far, or have fallen out of practice, the race team has put together 12-week training plans to get you to the finish line. And they start on Monday (8 July). There […]
