Let’s Go, Southall…time to get moving
The smallest things can make a huge difference to your health and being more active now could drastically improve your quality of life as you get older. That is one of the main messages of the Let’s Go Southall programme. Let’s Go Southall’s aim is to encourage and support residents to be more physically active. […]
Win match day tickets to see Brentford play
Take part in our competition and you will have the chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to watch Brentford play a Championship football match. After coming close to making it into the promotion play-off positions last season, the side will be hoping to mount another promotion challenge this year to reach the […]
Game, set and match at new Gunnersbury Park tennis courts
Fancy taking up tennis? Or not played for ages and itching to give it another go? Gunnersbury Park is offering free tennis tasters from Monday (20 August). Using the park’s new tennis courts, there will be opportunities for onsite coaching, holiday camps and mini tennis courses as well as free community outreach programmes within local […]
‘An apprenticeship can be for anyone’
Training as a surveyor, Suzanna Lovell’s career path is a shining example of the number of opportunities that are available for apprentices. About to embark on the Ealing Council’s first apprenticeship degree, Suzanna’s journey has come full circle. “I decided to do an apprenticeship because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do career-wise after […]
‘Lots of roads to go down’ as an apprentice
One week into the job and the future was already looking bright for Ealing Council apprentice Tahiry Hamlyn (pictured). “It was completely different to what I was expecting but in a good way,” she said. Tahiry, who is an apprentice for the council’s school travel team, said: “Sometimes people don’t know what they want to […]
Your summer photo winner revealed…
This image of a girl dancing in Pitshanger Park with sprinklers going off behind her on a bowling green was voted by residents as their winner of our summer photo competition, Seasons of Ealing . It was a clear winner in the end, but two excellent runners-up also scored plenty of votes. The picture (above, and right in […]
Plastic recycling – what you need to know
Plastic can take up to 500 years to decompose in landfill while other plastic, as you will have seen on the news, ends up in the sea and damages ecosystems. There is a simple alternative: Recycle as much of it as you can – most of it can be. You can also save on waste […]
‘Great streets’ scheme makes slabs of progress
A five-year project to improve Southall’s town centre took another step towards completion after work on two key areas came to an end as part of the Southall Great Streets programme. South Road and the space around St John’s Church have been receiving attention as the Southall Great Streets programme builds on the wider work of the […]
Changes to HMO licensing for landlords
Live in or own a house in multiple occupation (HMO)? Big changes to the way licensing works will come into force on 1 October. Under the new national rules, mandatory licensing – previously limited to properties that were three or more storeys tall – will be extended to cover almost all HMOs that are occupied […]
Vote now for your favourite summer photo
You can vote now for your winner of our fourth Seasons of Ealing photo competition, for summer. Entries closed at the end of Tuesday (31 July). We have picked an impressive shortlist of nine summertime pictures you sent us – and we are running a public poll for residents to select a deserving winner. The idea was for people to enter their own […]
First World War: Refugees
As we draw closer to the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, in November, we will run a series of articles by Dr Jonathan Oates on how the war affected our borough and its people. We will conclude in November with a tale of how the news of Armistice and peace were […]
One of the oldest clubs…and now the ‘best’
One of the borough’s oldest and best-loved sporting institutions is celebrating after winning the title of Sports Club of the Year at the recent Ealing Sports Awards ceremony. Actonians was founded as a cricket club in 1925 by pupils of the former Acton grammar school. The club has moved on a lot since then and […]