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Heathrow expansion could oust Labour MP

Ann Keen holds a strategic Labour seat

3:18pm Monday 5th January 2009

Brentford and Isleworth MP Ann Keen faces losing her seat at the next general election as a result of voters’ anger with Labour over the proposed expansion of Heathrow airport, a poll has revealed.

Documents reveal largest British museum theft in history

A chest engraved with bone plaques was among the items stolen from the Victoria and Albert museum

8:00am Monday 5th January 2009

A Victoria and Albert employee furnished his Chiswick council house with over 2,000 items which he stole in one of the largest museum thefts in history.

Teach children about rail track dangers, pleads mum

7:10am Monday 5th January 2009

A mum whose daughter was killed on a railway line has called for more education about the dangers of live tracks after the electrocution of a Chiswick schoolboy.

Tributes to teen killed on rail line

Floral tributes: friends have left flowers at the station where Sam Griffiths died. Pic: courtesy of Mid Sussex Times

4:48pm Friday 2nd January 2009

A teenager has died after being electrocuted on a railway line on New Year’s Day after a prank went tragically wrong.

Memorial service for a 'true gentleman'

Fall: Geoffrey Jones died after slipping on an icy

12:50pm Thursday 1st January 2009

A pensioner died just days after he slipped and hit his head on an icy pavement.

Woman robbed at knifepoint

12:10pm Wednesday 31st December 2008

A woman was attacked and robbed at knifepoint by a gang of teenage girls in Hounslow.

Festive greetings from the ‘old bill’

The card that Joseph Kennedy received

10:40am Wednesday 31st December 2008

A Brentford man received a Christmas card from the police warning “we are watching you” after they confused his address with that of a known criminal.

New Year credit crunch advice

8:10am Tuesday 30th December 2008

As the credit crisis worsens, here are 12 ways to reduce the financial pinch.

Brentford model's family says death was not suicide

4:40pm Monday 29th December 2008

The family of the Brentford beauty who fell 12 floors to her death days before Christmas have insisted she did not commit suicide.

Make a hash of New Year's resolutions

Our reporter Craig Burnett hits the trail with the Hash House Harriers

11:31am Sunday 28th December 2008

Want to stick by the new year’s resolution this year but cannot give up the alcohol? Reporters Craig Burnett and Matt Watts discover how the two worlds can meet.

Predictions for the New Year

Will Cheryl Cole walk out on Girl's Aloud?

9:24am Monday 29th December 2008

After a year that started with an escalation of teen violence in London’s streets and ended with a global financial crisis, Jamie Henderson looks ahead at what events might take place in 2009.

Year in review: June

7:50am Sunday 28th December 2008

Thousands of people marched to Sipson – the village that could be destroyed if plans for a third runway at Heathrow are approved – in a united show of opposition to the Government. Organisers claimed up to 20,000 people woul attend. The figure on the day was about 6,000.

Woolworths store closures begin

10:09am Saturday 27th December 2008

A quarter of Woolworths stores will close today as the end looms for the failed retailer.

Year in review: May

2:52pm Saturday 27th December 2008

A Hounslow school teacher died in a suspected suicide at Osterley station.

Chiswick man helps out in cyclone damaged Burma

Chris Man will spend Christmas helping families in Burma

11:30am Friday 26th December 2008

A Chiswick resident showed the true spirit of Christmas by helping families hit by the cyclone in Burma this year.


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