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We hope you have a great day today, on Thursday 18 November.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, as an family run relish company in Ealing has received a gold star taste award for their pineapple date and chilli chutney, since starting their business in lockdown last year.

Today's weather: Highs of 13 degrees and lows of 11 degrees, just a cloudy day, according to the Met Office, with wind gusts between 22 – 15 mph.

Traffic:As of 7:20am according to the AA Traffic, there is slow traffic on A406 North Circular both ways between Queens Drive (Shell Garage) and A4000 Gunnersbury Lane (Gunnersbury Park).

Delays of four minutes and delays increasing on A406 North Circular Westbound between Corringway and Tudor Way. Average speed ten mph. Tfl update: District Line: delays between Barking and Ealing Broadway / Richmond / Wimbledon westbound only now due to an earlier faulty train at Whitechapel. Tickets are being accepted on London Buses. Good service on the rest of the line.

Circle Line: Severe delays due to an earlier faulty train at Moorgate. Tickets are being accepted on London Buses.

Good service on the Central Line. Today's Sunrise: 7:24 am

Today's Sunset: 4:08 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 Ealing Event of the Week the local makers market at the Fox Inn in Hanwell. Going for five years, this community market features only locally produced and handmade products outside the mid-19th century pub by the river in Hanwell.

And Sophie Ellis-Bextor, who lives in west London, raised more than £1million for Children in Need yesterday after dancing for 24 hours straight in a Kitchen Disco Danceathon!

Joke of the Day: Can February march? A. No, but April may.

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