Welcome to our Ealing Breakfast Briefing!

Look out for our morning briefing on weekdays with all the essentials of our town.

We hope you have a great day today, on Wednesday 6 October.

Click here for our top story yesterday, about the Ealing litter picking squad awarded a Queen's Award for their services in volunteering.

Traffic: Delays of six minutes and delays increasing on A40 Western Avenue Eastbound in London. Average speed 15 mph.

Today's weather: Highs of 16 degrees, lows of 12 degrees, sunny changing to partly cloudy by night time, wind gusts of 29 – 6 mph.

Flood Warnings are still in force for England, according to the Environmental Agency, however London and the south-east of England and looking to have a dry couple of days ahead.

Todays Sunrise: 7:09 am

Todays Sunset: 6:28 pm

Pollution: Low

UV: Medium

Supermarket opening times Ealing Broadway: 

Morrisons: 7am – 10pm

Sainsbury's Local: 7am – 11pm

Tesco express: 6am – 10pm

Planet Organic: 8am – 9pm

Don't miss: Black History Month, which started on Friday 1 October, is being celebrated throughout the borough by individuals and communities. This year's theme is inspired by the 2020 Black Lives Matter events and called 'Proud To Be'.

Around Ealing have written about black actors who featured in early Ealing films at the Ealing Film Studios', find out more here.

Also, seven LTNs are being removed in Ealing today. Activity to remove them will take place from 10am-3pm.

Joke of the Day: Q. What do you call a bee that can't make up its mind?

A. A Maybe

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