September 2010 Archives

HARROW Council will debate whether or not to allow free 30-minute parking in Pinner after a petition raised more than 2,000 signatures calling for it to be introduced.

Pinner and District Business Club launched the petition six months ago in a bid to win back shoppers who have flocked to nearby retail centres where parking is free for a limited period.

THE discovery of an old notice advertising stables in Pinner has excited local historians who think it is at least 100 years old.

Builders working on the side of David Charles' Property Consultants, at 29 High Street, were surprised to find the hidden lettering while undertaking a renewal of the Tudor building's rendering.

THE campaign to open a new GP surgery in Pinner gathered pace this week as time ticks away to NHS Harrow's decision on future healthcare provision.

Local councillors, pharmacists and patients have rallied behind the bid to either reopen the old Village Surgery in Barrow Point Avenue, or to set up a similar practice elsewhere in Pinner.

And after admitting making errors in communicating April's closure of The Village Surgery, Harrow PCT this week issued a formal apology for their handling of the situation.

VALUABLE ornaments were stolen from two Hatch End properties over one weekend, police have confirmed.
Thieves managed to get in to the rear garden of building contractors Mary and Oliver Crosby's home in Royston Park Road sometime between Saturday September 11 and the following Monday and made off with a 6ft bronze statue of a male reindeer and a 3ft white marble statue of an eagle that sat on a pillar.

AFTER three years and two failed planning appeals, a Pinner sports club has finally won its battle to install new floodlights - but only just.

The members of Harrow Council's planning committee approved West End Lawn Tennis Club's third bid to erect the lights at its Cuckoo Hill Road base by just a single vote last week.

TRAGEDY struck a family from Pinner Green who had emigrated to the Philippines this week when a 64-year-old father was shot dead in the country.

Anthony Nicholas was murdered on Monday (7) as he tried to escape armed robbers and save wife Judith, as they rode together on a motorised tricycle.

The couple used to live with their children in Deacons Close, before emigrating to the Pacific island nation to run a beach resort.

NHS Harrow was slammed at a public meeting in Pinner on Tuesday night as doctors, health committees, councillors and patients argued that the Village Surgery's sudden closure should have been avoided.

The Primary Care Trust (PCT) admitted mistakes were made in their handling of April's closure, for which patients were given just 48 hours' notice.

AN UNEMPLOYED man from Harrow will face magistrates tomorrow (Thursday, September 9) accused of urinating on the war memorial in Wealdstone.
Phillip Shaw, 42, of Francis Road was charged with a public order offence after he allegedly relieved himself on the clock tower in the High Street, which lists the names of soldiers from Harrow who died in World War One, at 11.35am on Friday last week.
The incident was witnessed by Police Community Support Officers and members of the public.

RUISLIP, Northwood and Pinner MP Nick Hurd has married Lady Clare Kerr, 17 years his junior, in a ceremony attended by Tory grandees.

The Minister for Civil Society's second wedding took place on August 28 at the Scottish home of his bride's father, the 13th Marquis of Lothian.

Conservative commentators have hailed the wedding as the union of "two great Tory clans".

A JEWISH Pinner resident who lives in the house built in 1937 by a notorious Nazi war criminal has said she feels like "she's the one who's won".

The current owner of Joachim von Ribbentrop's English country retreat moved this week to refute a Jewish Times article last month stating that her family were "shocked" to find out the home's origins.