June 2011 Archives

PARENTS and visitors admired artwork produced by pupils at a Pinner school.
Last week Grimsdyke School in Sylvia Avenue dedicated its art lessons to the theme of flowers and the result of the children's efforts were put on display proudly on Monday.

AMATEUR Harrow hip-hop act Black Biscuit have won an online music award for a video they shot in Hatch End.

Dwayne Littlen from Rayners Lane and Kevern Raks from Harrow Weald took home the 'best video' prize in the Online Music Awards on Saturday (25) after winning a public vote.

A PINNER businessman accused of hanging a colleague from a forklift truck has been cleared of assault and false imprisonment.

Micko Kadic, 37, of Mill Farm Close, said he had only acted to break up a fight at an industrial warehouse in east London.

Snaresbrook Crown Court heard that victim Saeed Noor had been 'lured' to the Dagenham premises by Muhammed Sheikh, 34, of Sutton Court Road, Plaistow.

A 15-YEAR-OLD ex-Hatch End High School pupil was stabbed in High Road, Harrow Weald, on Friday at 4.50pm during a mass brawl.
The victim was alleged attacked in a fight on the pavement outside the parade of shops opposite Homebase and is in a "serious but stable" condition at an east London hospital where he was taken by the air ambulance.

VACANT Sam Maguire's pub in High Street, Wealdstone, can be torn down and replaced by a 78-room hotel, Harrow Council's planning committee agreed on June 15.
The applicants, nursing home firm McNeil, won planning permission for a restaurant on the ground floor of the proposed part three-, part four- and part five-storey building.

A BULGARIAN motorist who hit and fatally injured a cycling newspaper deliveryman in Hatch End has been warned he faces jail.
Aleksander Preslavski, 22, of Linklea Close, Colindale, admitted on Monday (June 20) causing the death of Rajendra Ramakrishnan by dangerous driving and will be sentenced on July 19 - one day short of the one-year anniversary of the fatal accident.

EXASPERATED neighbours in Wealdstone are fed-up and frustrated by haphazard doorstep waste collections they have branded a "ridiculous" public service.
Troy Armour, 37, said Harrow Council has failed to collect one of the three types of wheelie bin from outside his home and other residential properties in Belmont Road six separate times in the last year.

AN inquest has been opened and adjourned into the road crash death of a Hatch End man.

Amit Makwana, 48, from Hillview Road, died after a collision with a stationary HGV lorry in the early hours of Sunday (12).

RESIDENTS in Pinner have objected to plans for a three-storey block of flats sited opposite the West House museum and art gallery.

The proposals being considered by Harrow Council for the site of the former day nursery at 69 West End Lane include nine flats of one, two and three bedrooms, plus an underground car park and roof-top solar panels.

HATCH End Library in Uxbridge Road will be closed between August 24 and 31 to enable Harrow Council to install self-service machines for checking items in and out.