‘All you need’ baby booklet for new parents
The NHS in north-west London is handing out a new baby booklet to women to give them useful information and contacts for when they leave hospital after giving birth. It has been welcomed and supported by the National Childbirth Trust (NCT), and was developed following feedback from mums, midwives and maternity specialists that the information being […]
Emily Taylor: One of our first female councillors
In this year, which marks the centenary of women being allowed to vote for MPs, as well as to stand for Parliament, writes Dr Jonathan Oates, it seems apt to discover about the first woman to become a councillor in Ealing and Hanwell, Emily Taylor. Although Acton had a female councillor from 1911, Susan Smee, […]
Your council tax bills for 2018/19
Your council tax bill for 2018/19 will reach you in March. We promised to keep council tax as low as possible for as long as possible and, accordingly, core council tax has been the same for 10 years. However, this year it will increase. Like an estimated 95% of councils, the financial pressures that we […]
Football with a serious message
More than 130 young people took part in a football tournament at Northolt High School last week in partnership with the Premier League. The tournament, run with the Premier League’s Kicks project, saw 10 community organisations from across the country play a series of six-a-side matches. It intended to achieve more than just playing football […]
Why it is important to test for bowel cancer
Bowel cancer is the UK’s third most common cancer and the second leading cause of cancer deaths. Most people who get bowel cancer are aged over 60 and the NHS invites people to take easy tests to help prevent it. Every year thousands of residents in Ealing aged between 55 and 74 are invited to […]
Win a one-month fitness pass
Take part in our competition and you could win a free, one-month pass to an Ealing fitness studio. Tribeca Studios is a New York-inspired fitness studio in the heart of Ealing Broadway. Rebecca Terrell, managing director, said: “All of Tribeca’s classes are contract-free and suitable for beginners. We have a timetable of more than 135 […]
Holocaust: Survivors share wartime experiences
Each year, Holocaust Memorial Day is marked in the borough in late January, as it is around the world. Last week, as Melanie Silver reports, more than 60 local school pupils had the rare opportunity to hear moving testimony from two Holocaust survivors, Marianne and Peter Summerfield, refugees from Germany in 1939. The high school […]
Win the chance to be a zookeeper for the day
If you follow the clues at Hanwell Zoo this spring you could win the prize of being a zookeeper there for a day. There will be plenty of family fun to be had with a cracking Easter egg trail taking place from Saturday, 31 March to Sunday, 14 April. It will be free to take […]
‘I can still live independently’
“I would have died if my social worker hadn’t found me the last time,” said Francis O’Reilly*, who lived alone until a year ago when undiagnosed anaemia caught him out. Thanks to the council he now lives independently in a sheltered home with support on-site if he needs it. More than 7,000 adults receive some […]
The adventures of an Ealing lecturer
Following on from our serialisation of an Ealing man’s 1930s diary, Dr Jonathan Oates looks at another local man’s life experiences of the same period. It is a life that encompassed a fearful mother trying to prevent a love affair; the teaching of an ‘inveterate drunk’; attempts to make visitors laugh at the National Portrait […]
Earn while you learn – opportunities now
Apprenticeships are becoming an increasingly popular route to enter the world of work, to earn while you learn. And there are more than 100 opportunities available right now. Ealing Council offers two apprenticeship schemes: One working within the council itself, and one working at local businesses. The next round of vacancies at the council will […]
A gardener’s best friend?
With the end of winter on the horizon (however distant it feels) many gardeners will be itching to get back outside. Signing up for the council’s fortnightly garden waste collection service is a good way to get on with the business of preparing for spring. It would mean you no longer need to take your […]