Hillingdon - News

Grimsby racer Lee Wakefield heading to 'home' British Human Power Club ...
This is Grimsby
Wakefield, a former Humberston School pupil, opened his BHPC campaign with a third-place finish at Hillingdon before sitting out the following event at Castle Combe. Despite a fortnight away from the bike, though, Wakefield remains confident and ...

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Scrap thieves take 250 Hillingdon drain covers in a year
Hillingdon Times
SCRAP-METAL thieves, eager to cash in on the UK's estimated £700 million-a-year illegal metal trade, have been targeting Hillingdon. Thousands of tons are stolen across the country every year and more than 250 drain covers were stolen in Hillingdon ...

Triathletes raise hospice cash
Harrow Observer
Collette O'Neill, of Hillingdon Triathletes, won the women's event in 53 minutes and Ravi Raja, from Harrow, was the youngest winner of the competition, which features swimming, cycling and running. A team of 12 French triathletes from Harrow's twin ...

British Cycling
Lucy Garner leads the very strong entry of 53 riders in the Hillingdon Women's GP
British Cycling
World & National Junior Champion Lucy Garner leads the very strong entry of 53 riders in the Hillingdon Women's GP, on Sunday, 27 May 2012, at the Hillingdon Cycle Circuit. The race is the second in the British Cycling National Road Race Series.

Government brings untold hardships on families
Uxbridge Gazette
The election of the London Assembly members saw Labour overturn a 28000 Tory majority here in Ealing and Hillingdon, where Dr Onkar Sahota replaced the former deputy mayor, Richard Barnes. The London-wide party list candidates also saw a huge swing to ...

Travelodge plan dropped in favour of flats
Uxbridge Gazette
Eastcote Residents' Association (ERA) has expressed its dismay over the news and called on Hillingdon Council to reject the proposal when it is put in front of a planning committee tomorrow (Thursday). Many shopkeepers in Field End Road had rallied in ...

Former Bishopshalt headteacher makes £40000 donation on school's behalf
Uxbridge Gazette
A FORMER headteacher of Bishopshalt School has handed over £30000 to Hillingdon Hospital that was raised by his pupils. The fundraising campaign was the brainchild of David Bocock, who retired in July 2011 and wanted to do something significant for a ...

Rare species photographed by Hillingdon scientist
Uxbridge Gazette
But Dr D'Cruze, of Long Lane, Hillingdon, returned home triumphant with the pictures he wanted. The former Douay Martyrs School pupil captured more than 4000 hours of film during the Negros Interior Biodiversity Expedition in April.

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Campaigner ambushed by live TV crew
Uxbridge Gazette
Anna Kennedy, who founded Hillingdon Manor School for children with autism or Asperger's syndrome, thought she was meeting a journalist from the New York Times at her office at 7am on Thursday last week. Instead she was thrust in front of cameras ...

IT PRO
Public sector IT left in dark over government cloud strategy
IT PRO
Roger Bearpark, assistant head of IT at the London Borough of Hillingdon, said that G-Cloud and Cloudstore must be the catalyst for forward thinking ICT professionals within the public sector to re-evaluate how they procure, deliver and change services ...
Civil Servants Don't Understand G-CloudITProPortal

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Harrow takeaway workers face deportation after immigration raid
Harrow Observer
Assistant director Paul D'Silva, of the UKBA's Harrow and Hillingdon Local Immigration Team, said: “We are carrying out operations like this across London almost every day, and where we find people who are in the UK illegally we will seek to remove ...

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CALA Homes releases new luxury detached homes in Ickenham
whathouse.co.uk
CALA Homes has released the first homes for sale at The Chase, the latest phase of properties at the company's Ickenham Park development in the London Borough of Hillingdon. This new gated scheme with feature 14 five- and six-bedroom detached houses ...

Disabled adults legal challenge against Hillingdon Council's axe to day centres
Uxbridge Gazette
THE parents and carers of disabled adults affected by Hillingdon Council's decision to close three day centres have begun a legal challenge in the High Court. Several families have claimed that a decision made in January to close the centres and ...
Closures of day care centresITV News

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ACS teacher helps train teachers in Ugandan schools
Re:locate Magazine
Kara Grinham, a maths and science teacher at ACS Hillingdon International School, recently took part in an international teacher exchange programme aimed at improving teaching methods at state schools in Uganda. Travelling with nine other teachers and ...

Local Labour leader ousted at annual meeting
Uxbridge Gazette
THE Labour group on Hillingdon Council has chosen a new leader as it sets its sights on regaining control of Uxbridge Civic Centre in 2014. Previous leader Councillor Mo Khursheed (Botwell) was deposed from his position at the annual meeting of the ...

Teenage girl's face smashed during fight
Uxbridge Gazette
The injured teenager needed hospital treatment after the alleged assault at around 3.45pm on Thursday last week (10). She has since been discharged from hospital. Hillingdon police say they believe the assault took place in Industry Park, ...

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Final hurdle for fate of Medi Parc
Uxbridge Gazette
Representatives of Comer Homes, which wants to build on the land off Hill End Road, and of Harefield Tenants' and Residents' Association (HTRA), which opposes the plans, will gather at Hillingdon Civic Centre next week. HTRA's sub committee Save the ...

New 'all weather' scheme opened in Spennymoor
24dash (press release)
Fortunately, with the sun absent without leave at present, the Photovoltaic roof panels - installed as part of the Railway Housing Association scheme on the former Hillingdon pub site - rely on daylight, not sunlight, to generate power.

Council Takes Stand Against Metal Theft
Build.co.uk
Hillingdon Council is tackling metal theft in the borough by replacing a number of items that could be sold for scrap with replica ones. Thousands of tonnes of metal are stolen across the UK every year. In the last year more than 250 drain covers were ...

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£1.8m to tackle 'beds in sheds'
Inside Housing
These include seven councils in London; Brent, Ealing, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Newham, Redbridge and Southwark, as well as Peterborough and Slough outside the capital. Unscrupulous landlords tend to rent out 'beds in sheds' to migrants, ...
UK crackdown on 'criminal landlords' will include NRIsNDTV

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