News in Ealing

AN Ealing Hospital doctor has been training to swim the English Channel and is raising money for charity in the process.

Dervla Ireland has been spending several hours a week training for the gruelling swim later this summer.

A MAN has been arrested after smashing several shop windows along Uxbridge Road in Hanwell.

At around 9:30am on Tuesday, May 25, a man was seen shouting and talking to himself walking along Uxbridge Road.

AN Ealing resident will be competing for the Miss England crown after winning the Miss London title last year.

Jessica Kang, 26, lives in Hanwell and works as a HR systems officer for Ealing Council.

SINCE last week, indoor venues have been allowed to reopen their doors throughout Ealing and the country.

These venues are putting on many different events, which you can find on our newly revamped What's On section.

AHEAD of National Bike Week next week (May 30 – June 5), Ealing Broadway shopping centre has officially opened its new facility, Ride&Park.

It's located on the ground floor next to Chantal Café in St Saviour's Walk and the new facility offers visitors a safe space to store their bikes and scooters for free for up to 48 hours.

EALING residents can travel in and out of Hounslow Borough as health chiefs have now clarified there is no 'local lockdown' or extra travel restrictions in the area.

As we reported yesterday, the Government issued guidance last Friday encouraging people not to make unnecessary journeys to areas in the UK which have high cases of the Indian COVID-19 variant, including Hounslow, Ealing's neighbouring borough.

PART of a flat on the second floor of a building in Acton has been damaged by a fire.

The fire brigade was called to the scene on Friary Road just after 9:30am last Tuesday, May 18, with the fire under control an hour later.

ST BENEDICT'S School in Ealing Broadway has been named as one of the 12 'best value' independent schools in the UK by the Daily Telegraph.

The national newspaper has selected 'Bennies' as one of the UK's 'best value' private schools, offering 'an excellent education for a significantly lower price'.

EALING Town Hall will be lit purple at 5pm today (May 25), to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of George Floyd.

Floyd was killed on this day last year in Minneapolis, by police officer Derek Chauvin, in what sparked a worldwide outcry regarding police brutality in the US.

EALING residents are currently being advised by the Government not to travel into the neighbouring Borough of Hounslow due to a local outbreak of the Indian variant.

The government has issued new guidance for eight Indian variant hotspots across England, which includes Hounslow – the only London borough affected.