September 2009 Archives

AN OUTLINE planning application has been submitted for the expansion of Stockley Park.

Stockley Park Phase 3, as it has been dubbed, would be located on a 12,000 hectare site adjoining Ironbridge Road and Horton Road, West Drayton.

A PASSENGER on board the West Drayton train which caught fire has described her terrifying experience- believing she was going to die.

Emily Morris, of Islington, north London, was one of 200 passengers on the Oxford bound train travelling through West Drayton station on Sunday, when shortly after noon the train caught fire.

A TRAIN carrying over 200 passengers caught fire and had to be evacuated on Sunday afternoon.

A SIX month dispersal order is to be introduced to tackle problems of under age drinking and anti-social behaviour.

The dispersal zone is to be implemented in West Drayton town centre, and is aimed specifically at young people who are harassing and intimidating residents and shopkeepers.

AN ACADEMY is spending thousands of pounds in defending its decision to permanently exclude one of its pupils.

Faysal Sulaiman, 16, of Warwick Road, West Drayton, was excluded from Stockley Academy last October, after getting into a fight with a fellow pupil, but his father is bringing proceedings for an appeal to a judicial review of the Academy's decision.

PROPOSALS have been lodged to build another huge hotel on the famous site where hit film the Jungle Book was reproduced in glorious Technicolor.

The 623 bedroom hotel would be built at 276 Bath Road, Sipson, where the Technicolor site used to stand before it was demolished earlier this year.

THE Mayor of London visited Stockley Park today (Tuesday) to mark the opening of Canon Europe's new headquarters.

Boris Johnson appeared at 10am to see the Japanese electronics giant make its move from Holland to London.

THE future of the former National Air Traffic Control Site will move a step closer to being decided this Thursday.

Councillors are due to discuss the responses to the initial consultation laid out for the Porter's Way site in West Drayton.

A VET is running a balloon race which gives participants the chance to win £100 and help a worthy cause at the same time.

St Martin's Veterinary Clinic, in Station Road, West Drayton, is hosting the balloon race to raise money for VetAid, a charity that provides animal care to traditional farmers in Africa.

TWO failed asylum seekers have been removed from the country after they were found working in West Drayton.

They were among four who were arrested by the UK Border Agency during a raid at The Good Food Company's premises in Horton Road, West Drayton on Thursday (10/9).