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We hope you have a great day today, on Thursday 11 November.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, as the Ealing Charity Christmas Card shop opened its doors this week for its 37th Christmas, having raised over £800,000 since starting in 1985.

Today's weather: Highs of 14 degrees and lows of 9 degrees, cloudy changing to clear by early evening, according to the Met Office, with wind gusts between 9 – 15 mph.

Met Office news: The number of people in regions across the world affected by extreme heat stress – a potentially fatal combination of heat and humidity – could increase nearly 15-fold if the world's temperature rise reaches 2°C, according to new figures and a map from the Met Office.

Today's Sunrise: 7:12 am

Today's Sunset: 4:18 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, as a thriller production comes to the Questors theatre in Ealing this Friday for a darkly comic, captivating performance of The Ghost Train, by internationally renowned playwright and actor Arnold Ridley.

Today is Armistice Day, commemorated every year on 11 November to mark the armistice signed between the Allies of World War I and Germany.

The public are invited to join councillors and council staff who will be observing a two-minute silence outside Ealing Town Hall at 11am today.

And from midnight last night anyone working or volunteering in a care home in the UK will need to be fully vaccinated against coronavirus (COVID-19), unless exempt.

Joke of the Day: How do you drown a hipster?

A. Throw him in the mainstream.

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