News in Ealing

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.

A POPULAR Ealing curry house has been awarded the South East England Gastronomic Excellence Award.

Haweli has been chosen by the London & South East Prestige Awards 2020/21 and will receive the award at a ceremony at the Barnett Hill Hotel in Guilford in July.

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.