More financial pain as government funding hits record low
Ealing Council’s cabinet meeting heard last night (Tuesday, 14 November) that the budget gap the authority will need to close over the next four years now stands at £73million. Public funding austerity measures, introduced in 2010, will mean that the council will have £143million less government funding to spend on local services in 2021 than […]
Surviving the pain of domestic abuse
“Being abused is such a lonely place to be. It affects you every day; even now my confidence can be shaken just by someone raising their voice,” a brave woman told us after living through the physical, mental and emotional pain of domestic abuse, and coming out the other side. One in four women in […]
Back a winner and nominate a local hero in the sports awards
Does someone at a local sports club deserve some recognition? Here is your chance to give it to them because nominations are already open for the 2018 Ealing Sports Awards. Nominating someone could win you a prize for yourself as well. After the success of the inaugural awards event this summer, judges have decided to open […]
A glimpse at local education a century ago
In the spring of 1901 a Yorkshire solicitor by the name of Mr Chambers was tasked with finding a suitable school for the fatherless Mary Waddington, aged 15. He did this by writing to a number of private girls’ schools, who replied to give him details. The tale is told by Dr Jonathan Oates and […]
Christmas is coming…and here is what to do locally
Christmas starts at home, and there will be so much happening on your doorstep in the next few weeks – from fairs to seasonal markets, featuring everything you can imagine and some things you cannot. Gingerbread sculptures or Santa in an ice cave, anyone? Ealing Artisan, the weekly Sunday food and craft market in Ealing […]
Zoo looking for wild ideas for time capsule
Hanwell Zoo is looking for your help with ideas and donations of items to place in a time capsule that will aim to capture memories of Ealing in 2017. It will be buried under a new enclosure for endangered birds. Local people and visitors to the zoo are being asked to get their thinking caps […]
Idris is back and jewel thieves were here too
Idris Elba, diamond geezer that he is, makes his second appearance in the illustrious pages of Reel Life. I doubt anyone will object to that, with him being such an exceptionally popular man. A comedy about motherhood features too… Going the extra Yardie This time Idris has only gone and turned his hand to a […]
Silence, remembrance and revisiting stories
A two-minute silence will, as ever, take place on Armistice Day at 11am this Saturday (11 November) – echoing the so-called ‘eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month’ of 1918. This was when the armistice treaty between the opposing sides of the First World War came into force, to officially cease hostilities; […]
A ‘photo finish’ in close competition sees snail win
This beautiful image of a snail was the winner of our first Seasons of Ealing photo competition after hundreds of you voted for your favourite from a selection of wonderful autumnal pictures taken by our readers. Your winning photo, which you can view above, was taken by Katarzyna Kicinska of Greenford. It is of a […]
Future Ealing is the way ahead
With less money to spend on services we have no option but to change the way the council works and how services are delivered. Therefore, as a council, we have agreed to focus our work in order to best look after the borough’s interests. We have decided on nine areas that will drive and inform […]
Trees provide pupils with new branches of learning
Schoolchildren of all ages came together this week to learn about the importance of trees in tackling air pollution in the borough, and to help plant two new trees outside one of the borough’s largest high schools. The new trees were planted on Wednesday (1 November) outside Featherstone High School in Montague Waye, Southall. Pupils […]
Vote now for your Seasons of Ealing photo winner
Entry to our first Seasons of Ealing photo competition closed yesterday (Tuesday, 31 October) after hundreds of you sent in your autumnal pictures. We have picked a shortlist of nine – and now we are running a public poll for residents to vote for the winner. The idea was for people to enter their own snaps […]