January 2011 Archives

A HATCH End man who knocked out a bus driver in an argument over a passenger has been jailed for eight months.

Sohieel Khan, 38, from Cherry Croft Gardens, denied that he had assaulted the driver in a bout of 'road rage' but was found guilty in his trial.

IS this another sign of the downfall of Pinner's once thriving village centre?

A trader who has had to close her Bridge Street fashion shop blamed the 'dramatic' loss in footfall in the village on a lack of support from Harrow Council.

THREATS of a legal challenge over NHS Harrow's closure of a Pinner GP practice have been extinguished this week, but criticism of the health authority has continued.

A Pinner councillor has compared the primary care trust (PCT) to a big business, claiming it has put financial aims above the needs of patients.

A MAN is expected to stand trial over the death of a 17-year-old Pinner resident in a car accident.

Alex Jaggs, 19, of Eastcote Road, Ruislip, is charged with causing the death of Jack King on May 7 last year.

Jack was a front seat passenger in a car which hit a tree in Elm Avenue, where he died at the scene. Three others were injured.

A MOTORIST was injured when her car left the road and collided with a tree at 9.45pm yesterday in Harrow Weald.
The crash occurred in Old Redding almost directly opposite the entrance to Grims Dyke Hotel and the driver, a woman whose age is not known, was taken to Northwick ark Hospital with minor injuries.

A PUB that has stood empty for three years, becoming a target for arsonists, fly-tippers and loiterers, can be tore down and replaced with flats, councillors agreed.
The Box Tree Pub in Boxtree Lane, Harrow Weald, can be demolished to make way for 14 homes - all of them to made available at below market rent via a social landlord.

HOPES of a new GP surgery opening in Pinner were dashed by NHS Harrow this week, leaving 2,000 unregistered patients to find a doctor elsewhere.

Following The Village Surgery's sudden closure in April last year, the primary care trust (PCT) decided at a board meeting on Tuesday (11) that issuing a new GP contract was too expensive, given its £16million budget shortfall.

A PINNER pub hopes to bounce back from the brink after the award of a new premises licence.

The Starling Pub in Rickmansworth Road will relaunch itself in 2011 with a new 'entertainment offering' since its licence was granted last week by Harrow Council.

SEVERAL Pinner residents were among those recognised in the New Year's Honours, including a CBE for the first person of African descent to be called to the English Bar.

Former local celebrity David Suchet was also made a CBE, for services to drama.

The 64-year-old actor is well known for playing Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot on television but has also performed a variety of roles on stage and screen during a career spanning four decades.