Local Authority

The Maternity Service annual Service of Remembrance for the families and friends of babies and young children who have died during pregnancy, soon after birth, or when very young, will take place at 3.00pm on Sunday, 9th October 2011.

The staff of the Maternity Service at West Middlesex extend a welcome to all those who are mourning the loss of a baby or young child.

Hospital patients can now use machines to self check-in in a bid to increase efficiency and cut costs.

The kiosks at West Middlesex Hospital in Twickenham Road, Isleworth, are touch screen and can be used much like those in supermarkets.

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History lovers are being given the chance to experience how the other half lived in the 18th century.

Osterley Park, one of the last surviving country estates in London, is opening its house and garden for free to the public from 11am to 3pm on Saturday September 17 and Sunday 18.

Essential heart monitoring equipment worth £745 was donated to a hospital by a patient support group.

Upbeat Heart Awareness Group fundraise throughout the year, using initiatives such as collecting gold foreign coins, and then ask the hospital what equipment is most needed.

Unemployed youths are being encouraged to pick up their spades in a new gardening project.

Cultivate, in Commerce Road, Brentford is a new initiative which offers youngsters between 16 - 24 who are looking for work the chance to gain new skills and enter employment, by learning to grow herbs and vegetables in an allotment by the river.

Free parking will be offered in towns to encourage shoppers to buy from their local shops.

Algar Road, Avenue Road, London Road, South Street, The Grove and Upper Square in Isleworth, and Thornbury Road and Twickenham Road in Osterley will all be part of the 'Stop and shop' free parking introduced by Hounslow Council.

ISLEWORTH: Ramblers who fancy a twist on their standard Saturday walk are being invited to take part in a novel excursion.

The Hounslow Heritage Guides Association will lead a 90 minute circular walk on the history of smells, taking inspiration from tv series Filthy Cities, which looked at the country's grimy history.

A PATIENT has hit out at a hospital for a series of misdemeanours.

Helen Ollason, 25, of Thackery Close, Isleworth claims that a doctor at West Middlesex Hospital on Twickenham Road, Isleworth failed to diagnose a common infection, treated her incorrectly and hid her medical results.

SHOCK figures show a hospital to have the second worst midwife to birth ratio in the whole of the UK.

The data come from a BBC Panorama report which show that West Middlesex Hospital on Twickenham Road, Isleworth, has, on average, one midwife for every 43.88 births.

A YOUNG budding chef has made it through to the final round of a national ice cream making competition.

Nine-year-old Amelia Butcher who attends the Blue School on North Street, Isleworth is one of 10 finalists short listed by Sainsbury's in a competition for seven to 14-year-olds to create the nation's scariest ice cream.