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, on Thursday 21 October

Click here for our top story from yesterday, as Ealing residents were invited to name a new cinema coming to Ealing next Spring in a competition, with the chance to win free annual membership!

Today's weather: Highs of 12 degrees and lows of 7 degrees, cloudy changing to sunny by lunchtime, with wind gusts between 30 – 15 mph.

Flood warnings in force for England.

Traffic: According to AA traffic report, Delays of two minutes and delays easing on A406 North Circular Westbound in London. Average speed ten mph.

One lane closed due to stalled truck on M4 Westbound between J2 A4 Great West Road (Brentford) and J3 A312 The Parkway (Hayes / Heston). Traffic is coping well. Lane one (of three) is closed.

Todays Sunrise: 7:35 am

Todays Sunset: 5:56 pm

Pollution: Low

UV: Low

Supermarket opening times Ealing Broadway: 

Morrisons: 7am – 10pm

Sainsbury's Local: 7am – 11pm

Tesco express: 6am – 10pm

Planet Organic: 8am – 9pm

Co-op (Uxbridge Road): 7am – 9pm

Don't miss: Our Event of the Week, free comedy at the Clocktower in Hanwell, as The Healing Comedy Club heads to Ealing this Saturday for an afternoon of 'comedy to make you feel good.'

Covid-19 cases in Ealing Borough increase by 15 per cent on the previous week.

Joke of the Day: Tim Vine one-liner - "I got home, and the phone was ringing. I picked it up, and said 'Who's speaking please?' And a voice said 'You are.'"

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