News in Ealing

BUS drivers on routes from Ealing and all across West London are due to go on strike next week.

The first wave of strike action involves bus drivers employed by the French owned company RATP, which operates three subsidiaries in the London bus network: London United, London Sovereign and Quality Line.

TWO men have been charged with assault following an attack on two men at a petrol station in Greenford, that left one of the victims with serious facial injuries.

The two men were arrested on Wednesday, February 3 and charged the following day.

TODAY marks three months since Ealing Nub News was launched and we wanted to say thank you to the huge number of people who read our stories and have listed their services on our online newspaper.

In this short space of time, Ealing Nub News has amassed over 47,000 page views, which is on average over 15,000 per month.

EALING has seen a decrease in new coronavirus cases for the fourth consecutive week.

Specifically, there was a decrease of over 28% of new cases in the latest COVID-19 figures that were released.

EALING Council has announced it will be supporting low-income families this half term through the use of vouchers and grants.

Over the coming days the council will issue supermarket vouchers and grants to almost 10,000 families on low incomes.

CRIME drama series, The Serpent, has proved a great success since it came to our screens in January.

But the man who produced the hit TV series advises you not to watch it on your own!

HITESH (not his real name) is one of hundreds of rough sleepers in Ealing who have been housed through the Government's 'Everybody In' scheme during the pandemic.

But he is part of a smaller group of homeless people who usually are not legally allowed access to many benefits such as housing or homelessness assistance, due to their immigration status, known as No Recourse to Public Funds (NPRF).

A WOMAN from Acton who was convicted of killing her 10-year-old son has been sentenced to a hospital order.

Olga Freeman, 40, of Cumberland Park, pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey on January 25 to the manslaughter of her son Dylan, by reason of diminished responsibility.

AS we approach the February half term, a time when many of us would usually have been looking forward to a short-break away, the impact on the industry and the economy from the loss of tourism again comes into sharp focus.

Millions of jobs and local economies depend on tourism right across the country and businesses have lost many months of vital trading.

AN Ealing home cook who has ran her own catering business since 2006 has now opened her first shop.

Marie-Clare Alphonso, who lives in Northfields, is the woman behind Marie-Clare Cooks, which was launched in 2016 as a home cooked food delivery business.