February 2010 Archives

ALL three emergency services are attending a serious accident at Stockley Park.

An air ambulance arrived at the scene, as well as several police vehicles and the Fire Brigade.

Three people, including an 11 year old boy, have been taken to hospital with injuries.

Three ambulances attended the crash, which took place at 3pm.

The 11 year old boy was taken to Hillingdon Hospital as a priority by road.

Another patient, a 25 year old man, was taken by road to St George's Hospital with neck and back pain, while a man in his 20s was taken by air to the Royal London Hospital.

The car involved was a silver Vauxhall Astra, and it is believed to have been involved in a collision with a lamppost. It is unclear at this stage whether any other vehicles are involved.

Both sides of the roads have been closed and buses have been diverted, and there is a major traffic build up close to the M4 as rush hour approaches.

Entrance in and out of the business park which lies between Uxbridge, West Drayton and Heathrow is also believed to be limited.

What did you see at the scene?

A PROPERTY developer has been offering opportunities to disadvantaged youngsters by creating five new jobs.

P3 is one of the Mayor of Hillingdon's chosen charities, and works to help find employment to youths, and lasting solutions to social exclusion.

West Drayton's favourite horses were out again causing more havoc on the Stockley Bypass again this morning (Friday).

The Gazette told yesterday how the animals escaped from a field and began heading towards the M4 motorway, before police were forced to intervene.

THREE police cars and teams of officers were rushed to an emergency incident this morning- horses running wild making a bolt for the M4.

Police first received a call at 2.20am this morning alerting them that a fence keeping 13 horses in a field near the Stockley bypass, West Drayton had been broken.

AN EXCITING Supercar workshop left youngsters exhausted as they spent a day learning about motor maintenance.

The Skidz motor workshop was funded by Porsche, and took place on Wednesday (17) at West Drayton Young People's Centre, in Rowhley's Place, in Harmondsworth Road.

Over £110,000 of funding was given to Skidz Hillingdon to carry out motor workshops.

TRAFFIC lights failed at Harmondsworth Road yesterday.

The lights stopped working for several hours at the junction with Sipson Road.

Drivers were advised to approach with care.

Lights also failed at Trout Road, Yiewsley.

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ONE of the many victims of Sameer Tateri's Post Office scam has come forward to tell their story.

Peter Sibley, 60, of Mill Road, West Drayton, was one of many readers shocked to discover the former Station Road postmaster had been sent to jail for fraud last week.

He was convicted of stealing hundreds of pounds at a time from elderly customers, including one case where he took £20,000 from a blind 81 year-old.

WEST Drayton residents will be voting for a different MP this election, after new boundary changes were introduced.

The majority of West Drayton is now part of the Hayes and Harlington constituency, meaning if the status quo was selected, then MP John McDonnell (Lab) would become the area's parliamentary representative, rather than John Randall (Con).

A WARRANT has been issued for the arrest of a man charged with several thefts who failed to attend court.

Louie Buckingham, 19, of Primrose Drive, West Drayton, was due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrate's on both Monday and Tuesday.

He is charged with stealing guitars from ProMusic International, in Swakeleys Road, Ickenham, worth an estimated £3,680 last October.

OVER 200 residents keen to know the future of their doctors surgery crammed into a hall to grill health chiefs.

Anger at leaked plans to possibly close a busy doctors surgery at The Green, West Drayton, led to the meeting being called, even though Hillingdon PCT ruled out the possibility yesterday.

There was barely even a place to stand in the WI building this afternoon (Wednesday) as residents piled in to express their displeasure that the option had been put forward.