Clubs/societies

A ROYAL British Legion branch wants to set the record straight about its future, with false rumours spreading that Tesco had bought its land.

Staff at the West Drayton branch, in Station Road, say there has been a massive decline in numbers attending since hoardings went up and construction began on a Tesco Express store next door.

A SUPPORT group for stroke survivors that was axed because of funding cuts has been rescued.

IN BLAZING Spring sunshine, Christians from all the churches in Yiewsley joined with members of the local community to mark Good Friday with open air worship in Yiewsley High Street, outside St Matthew's Church.

The Middlesex branch of the Inland Waterways Association has cancelled its meeting scheduled for Tuesday of next week at the Canal Club off Waterloo Road because it was unable to book a guest speaker.

A SWIMMING club forced to move more than a year ago says it is still struggling to offer its members pool time.

Forward Hillingdon had been based at Yiewsley Pool in Otterfield Road for 30 years.

When the pool closed last year, the club split its session between the pools at the new leisure centres in Uxbridge and in Hayes.

But now it claims its time in the water has shrunk by half.

A THEATRE company in Yiewsley teamed up with local police to stage a play about bogus doorstep callers.

The Attic Theatre Company at the Cornerstone Centre in Yew Avenue on September 27 performed 'Ma Kelly's Doorstep', a play focussing on the issue of bogus callers and how to deal with them.

The Yiewsley safer neighbourhoods team (SNT) identified and invited local vulnerable persons and the elderly to see the play, while a crime prevention stall was manned at the venue by a local crime prevention officer.

A CHURCH has offered an olive branch to the jobless, by setting up support groups to share ideas of how to get back into work.

The groups would be held at St Matthew's Church in Yiewsley High Street.

The Middlesex Federation of W.I is holding an Open day on Saturday 7th November from 10am - 2pm.

Please come and join CLAD for a candlelit vigil to commemorate the lives of the fallen from WW2 on Remembrance Sunday 8th November from 5pm at Cherry Tree Lane Cemetery. For more information visit www.cherrylane.org.uk or call 07961 547 660.

ONGOING work to renovate a historic scout hut is coming along nicely- thanks to a new lick of paint.

Work to improve the 2nd West Drayton Scout Hut in Rowan Road, West Drayton received a boost when a paint company donated their materials.