News in Ealing

A SOUTHALL drug dealer has been sentenced to four years in prison after getting arrested twice in just over a week.

Maninder Brar, 23, of Hayes was first arrested on August 19 2020, after officers stopped a vehicle on Kingsbridge Road in Southall, after witnessing what they believed to be a drug deal.

EALING has seen a decrease in the number of new coronavirus cases, following last week's increase.

Specifically, there was a decrease of over 24% of new cases in the latest COVID-19 figures that were released.

EALING Council has been taking part in the national campaign 'No Mow May', to help our bees, butterflies and other wildlife species by allowing the grass to grow.

Greener Ealing, which is responsible for looking after the council's parks and open spaces, is leaving some grass areas in parks uncut throughout this month, or will be raising the height of their machines, in order to avoid cutting most of the low growing plans used by pollinating insects.

EALING Council has been accused by Unite the Union of 'actively helping' Serco 'hound' a union rep out of his civil enforcement job in the borough.

Unite claims that a council officer wrote to Serco, requesting that the union rep be removed from his duties for bringing the council into 'disrepute'.

SURGE testing for the Indian variant of coronavirus is due to be rolled out across Ealing and four other West London boroughs from today, the BBC has announced.

Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon and Hounslow will join Ealing in this round of surge testing, as cases of the new variant have risen locally from 400 to 720.

THE external utility room of a nursery in Northfields has been damaged by a fire believed to have involved a tumble dryer.

The fire brigade was called to the scene on Windmill Road at around 7:45pm last Monday, May 17, with the fire under control 25 minutes later.

EALING Central and Acton MP, Dr Rupa Huq, has been left 'really impressed' from her recent visit to the Pop Up Gallery at Ealing Broadway shopping centre.

The Labour MP popped down (excuse the pun) to the gallery on Friday (May 21) and met some of the artists who were present.

AN eight-year-old boy from Hanwell had been growing plants and flowers on some of the planters found throughout LTN21 (until they were removed this weekend).

The Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) scheme has caused much divide throughout the borough, with the use of planters implemented to block off certain routes to drivers.

PARKRUN, including the event at Gunnersbury and Northala Fields, will not be returning on June 5 as hoped.

More than 250 events in England obtained landowner permission to return, however this fell far short of the number needed for it to return on June 5 as hoped.

Ealing Council has agreed to go ahead with phase 7.2 in the latest stage of the Acton Gardens development.

The £800million regeneration project will further improve the former South Acton Estate.