News in Ealing

A swan was rescued from South Acton train station on Monday after running out of steam on the tracks.

Crowds gathered on the platforms to watch as TfL staff ushered the tired bird out of harm's way as trains waited for the track to clear.

A Twitter account which was created to document the construction of Brentford Community Stadium has had to defend its name, following a drone incident at Saturday's Brentford FC match.

The Bees match against the Wolverhampton Wanderers was halted for 15 minutes in the first half after a drone was flown over Brentford Community Stadium.

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A disabled man forced to shield in a damp-ridden flat during the pandemic says he can only shower once a week after authorities failed to fix his plumbing.

Michael Brady, 57, who suffers from a bone disorder which affects his stature, cartilage and vision, says that using the shower causes water to leak from the bathroom into the rest of his flat.

The Highway Code is about to be updated, and changes will become law in Ealing and across the UK on January 29, pending parliamentary approval.

Ealing's roads can be extremely busy with cyclists all year around, but particularly in the summer.

Ealing Council has been forced to pay £3,600 to a woman after failing to fix her leaking roof for six years.

The tenant complained over the years and got nowhere – and now a report by the Housing Ombudsman has found Ealing Council guilty of "severe maladministration" after failing to deal with the problem.    

Ealing's first independent plant shop, Greenka, has repotted itself in Ealing Broadway after outgrowing its former home on The Grove.

Greenka offers an array of pots, planters big and small and a whole host of accessories for green fingered Ealing residents.

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The actor and director Meneka Das will be making her Ealing debut next month with the latest play at the areas much-loved independent theatre The Questors.

Meneka, who has had a number of professional acting credits including playing Jer Bulsara, Freddie Mercury's mum, in the Oscar winning film Bohemian Rhapsody, is the director of upcoming play 'Apologia'.

The Ealing branch of Samaritans today celebrates turning 50 years old.

On Friday, 21 January 1972 in the basement of a condemned church in Windsor Road, the founding members of Ealing Samaritans took their first phone calls from people seeking emotional support.