May 2008 Archives

A month-long calender of events for older people begins on Saturday as the 16th annual 50+ Festival gets underway.

Every year in June CIP Arts Team in conjunction with the Older People's Festival Committee put on a celebration of the borough's 50+ community including workshops and opportunities, healthy living and information days, trips down memory lane and windows of opportunity to tomorrows' world.

This year the Hounslow Chronicle's own Eddie Menday (pictured) will open the festival at the Paul Robeson Theatre.

Officers from Osterley & Spring Grove Safer Neighbourhood Team visited West Thames College in Isleworth on May 22 to raise awareness about drugs and street crime.

Students spent hours quizzing the officers on subjects such as cannabis use, carrying knives, tasers and terrorism.

Friday, May 30

Coach and Horses, 183 London Road. Jorge Ramirez. Free. 9.30pm. Call 020 8560 1447.

Saturday, May 31
The Straw Dogs. Free. 9.30pm. Coach and Horses (as above).

Monday, June 2

Live jazz with host Trevor Tompkins. Free. 8.30pm. Coach and Horses (as above).

Saturday, May 31

Robin Bibi. Free. 8pm. The Red Lion (as above).

From Saturday, May 24

Osterley Park and House, Jersey Road. Summer Masquerade. Step back in time and experience preparations being made for an 18th-century ball. Decoration, gardening, food, entertainment, live music, costumes and stunning flower arrangements. £8/4 child. 1-4.30pm, garden open 11am-5pm. Closed Tues 27. Until Jun 1. Call 020 8232 5050. See www.nationaltrust.org.uk/osterley

Everyone's heard of Pop Idol, but the Chronicle has launched a four-week contest which will leaf the others behind

Welcome to Tree Idol, where we're asking readers to nominate their favourite tree to be in the running to win £50 to spend on their garden.

Teachers got a soaking at Smallberry Green Primary School's annual fair last Friday.

The splat the teacher stall was one of the most popular attractions at the event in Turnpike Lane, Isleworth.

Quick-thinking pensioners foiled two con men targeting their homes over the weekend.

On Friday, at about 3.30pm, a fraudster posing as a policeman struck at a house in Layton Road, Brentford.

A former nurse who trained at West Middlesex Hospital has become Hounslow's first mayor to live outside the borough.

Genevieve Hibbs, who has represented the Independent Community Group (ICG) in Isleworth since 2002, was elected on Tuesday evening.

A gunman held up an Isleworth petrol station, taking up to £300 from the till last Thursday (May 15).

He loitered by the door of Petropolis in Twickenham Road until the last customer left at about 10.10pm before approaching the counter with a black handgun and demanding money.

A group of schoolgirls are looking forward to appearing in court next month - as finalists in the national Mock Trial Competition.

The budding barristers from Gumley House RC Convent School, in Isleworth, won the regional heat last Saturday and will now go on to the final on June 21.

The former head of a hospital watchdog is furious its members have been excluded from a new health panel.

Jean Doherty claims four years of experience built up by volunteers on West Middlesex Hospital's Patient & Public Involvement Forum (PPIF) is going to waste.