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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.

A TOP comedian will tackle a gruelling swimming challenge for charity.

David Walliams, who found fame in Little Britain with Matt Lucas, hopes to take on the epic 140 mile length of The Thames in just eight days to raise money for Sports Relief.

A business woman is hoping to swap flip charts for the pop charts as she battles through a talent competition.

Becky Payne, 27, from Isleworth, spends her days as an account manager for a hotel company, but dreams of being a full time musician and has got through to the regional finals of Open Mic UK, a singing competition with a £50,000 prize.

A business woman is hoping to swap flip charts for the pop charts as she battles through a talent competition.

Becky Payne, 27, from Isleworth, spends her days as an account manager for a hotel company, but dreams of being a full time musician and has got through to the regional finals of Open Mic UK, a singing competition with a £50,000 prize.

Local groups pulled together to leave a shared building spick and span as part of an annual clean up.

Nearly thirty members of the various groups that use St John's and Spring Grove Community Association Hall in St John's Road, Isleworth, were rewarded with tea and biscuits as they dusted, polished and tidied.

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 FORMER business man has broken onto the big screen and appeared with top actors in Hollywood's latest blockbuster.

Erich Redman of Redesdale Gardens, Isleworth, plays a German baddie in the film Captain America: The First Avenger alongside superstars Chris Evans, Dominic Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones.

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.

City workers swapped their smart suits for Lycra suits as they tackled a gruelling bike ride for charity.

19 bankers, doctors and volunteer lifeboat crew battled through a 380km ride from London to Paris to raise money for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), including the Chiswick branch.

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.