November 2010 Archives

AFTER bidding the X Factor a gracious farewell on Sunday (28), Katie Waissel says she is 'looking forward to the rest of her career'.

In a whirlwind of TV interviews following her exit, the former Pinner schoolgirl said she felt a mixture of relief that she could move on, and sorrow for leaving the show that had made her dreams come true.

RESIDENTS have succeeded in persuading a local authority to install new road safety measures following the death of a Pinner teenager earlier this year.

Road planning bosses on Hillingdon Council said they agreed with a residents' petition calling for Cuckoo Hill, on the Harrow border, to be made safer.

POLICE are hunting for suspects who tried to snatch a cash box in Pinner last week.

The attempted robbery outside Barclays Bank on Friday (12) had echoes of a similar ambush at the same location in July.

A DIABETIC driver from Pinner who killed two pensioners in a road crash has begged a judge to sentence her in court, despite him saying she was still too ill to do so.

Enid Mills, of Abbey Close, Pinner Green, appeared at Harrow Crown Court on Friday (12) after being found guilty of causing the deaths of two women from Wembley, by dangerous driving.

ANOTHER week, another stunning lesson in the art of reality show survival by former Heathfield pupil Katie Waissel.

Everyone - even her own mum - thought Katie's number was up on Sunday (14) when she appeared in the bottom two of the X Factor for a third consecutive week and fourth time overall.

Harrow Public Transport Users' Association is holding a meeting of bus users on Wednesday at 2pm at Harrow Baptist Church Hall in College Road, Harrow, at which residents can quiz bus bosses.

A PUPIL scooped a photography award for documenting life at his Pinner school.
A-level student Harry Massingham, 16, was chosen as the London region winner of a competition run by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust after submitting five images he took in his spare time.

WORK is to begin on transforming a youth centre in Harrow Weald into a community and sports complex that will provide "something for everyone".
Construction of Watford FC's Community Sports and Education Trust's £4.2million project to build a replacement for Cedars Youth Centre in Chicheley Gardens starts the week beginning November 22.

FOURTEEN affordable homes could replace a fire-hit derelict pub in Harrow Weald.
The Box Tree in Boxtree Lane has stood vacant ever since the police shut the premises in January 2007 and in the past three years at least two suspicious fires have broken out, the last in July last year.

A PINNER family have become multi-millionaires overnight after a vase was sold at auction for £43million.

The mystery sellers of a 270-year-old Qianlong porcelain vase had to 'go out for some air' after the sale at Peter Bainbridge's Auctioneers on Thursday (Nov 11).