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We hope you have a great day today, on Wednesday 22 December.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, about the petition that amassed over 1,400 signatures in less than 24 hours to protect an ecological site in Ealing from hosting a music festival.

Today's weather: Highs of 5 degrees and lows of 4 degrees, sunny intervals changing to cloudy by lunchtime, according to the Met Office, with wind gusts between 14 – 11 mph.

Met Office news: The Met Office annual global temperature forecast for 2022 suggests that next year will continue as one of the Earth's hottest years.

Today's Sunrise: 8:05 am

Today's Sunset: 3:55 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: Ealing Broadway opening hours this Christmas, for the last-minute shoppers. Check the changes to rubbish and recycling collections over the Christmas period and you can look ahead at how to recycle your Christmas tree. Also, did you hear about the TV stars who visited a fridge near Ealing last month? (Christmas) Joke of the Day: Who is a Christmas trees favourite singer? A. Spruce Springsteen.

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