December 2009 Archives

An elderly and sick couple are living in conditions described as Dickensian on TV.

The privately rented room in South Ealing Road, Ealing was featured on the BBC last week as part of its programme on Dickensian Britain. Ealing Council served an improvement notice on the landlords in October to complete major repairs before the end of January.

The Council has begun its search for top athletes living in Ealing to help make their Olympic dreams come true.

A £125,000 Team Ealing Ambassador grant scheme is being allocated to applicants until midday on January 11 2010.

Dedicated environmental teams have been armed with new equipment to remove chewing gum from pavements.

The gum-busting team at Ealing Council will use environmentally friendly chemicals to remove the sticky gum and then the pavements are washed down making them look as good as new.

Kind-hearted people in the borough have helped Operation Christmas Child to send more than 1,700 shoeboxes full of presents to disadvantaged children abroad.

Schools, businesses, and communities have been busy packing the boxes with presents which will be sent to Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia, Liberia, Mozambique, Romania, Serbia and Swaziland.

A charity carol concert raised nearly £2,000 in aid of the St Barnabas organ restoration fund.

The Ealing Choral Society conducted by Jonathan Williams sung traditional and less well known carols to an audience of 350 on Saturday December 12.

Young people were awarded for their commitment to volunteering at a special ceremony held at Ealing Town Hall last Friday.

The 95 volunteers aged between 16 and 25 were recognised for giving up their time in helping others, whether through administration work, football coaching or befriending elderly or isolated people in West London.

Ealing's Mayor has paid tribute to the work of volunteers and staff of a bereavement group which has just celebrated its 10th anniversary.

At a recent reception in the Mayor's Parlour, Ealing Town Hall, Cllr Yerolemou thanked the Bereft volunteers and staff for their sterling work over the years. MP Steve Pound paid tribute to the "quiet and effective support" the charity offers so that people whose lives have been turned upside down by the loss of a loved one can "pour out their feelings and relieve the pressure".

A campaigning dyslexia group has joined forces with an organisation which helps people who are struggling to get back to work.

The Ealing Dyslexia Association is running an innovative project at the Citizens Trust in Craven Road, Ealing which supports the disabled, disadvantaged and long-term unemployed. As well as running grammar and literacy sessions, the EDA is also able to help with form-filling and Cvs with the knock-on effect of boosting confidence and morale.

An Ealing drama student is running theatre workshops in Korea which has sparked international interest in his work.

Daniel Walker, who trained at Drama Studio London, Ealing, launched his workshop in a Korean school. As the workshops continued Daniel got the backing of one of Seouls' top performance academies, Broadway Art Center, and took the project there on numerous occasions.

A man is believed to have had his leg severed after being pulled under a lorry transporting a digger in Ealing Broadway on Friday afternoon.

People waiting at the bus stop just outside Iceland in New Broadway, Ealing, screamed as they watched the man in his 40s fall under the wheels of the heavy lorry at 2pm.