Business

A PINNER business is launching a campaign to get students' heads off their desk and stop their stomachs from rumbling.

School Dynamics is working with Pinner cartoonist Robert Duncan to make schoolchildren more alert in the morning by encouraging them to eat breakfast.

A NEW business was blessed with an ancient ritual as part of Chinese New Year.

More than 50 people turned out on Saturday to see a colourful lion dance and blessing ceremony outside Peking Garden Restaurant, which owners Kim and Lai Wong hope will bring them good luck.

Rawlinson Gold have been working with Carbon Accountable, a company which advises businesses on how to reduce their carbon footprint and found in 2010 they were responsible for 52 tons of carbon emissions.

The business, which has offices in Pinner, Harrow and Wealdstone, will implement initiatives such as encouraging one car-free day a week.

NEIGHBOURS have objected to an application to extend the alcohol licence of a wine bar said to be a 'blight on Pinner'.

Police were called to reports that about 20 customers leaving Vintage Wine Bar in Pinner High Street were involved in a fight outside it on Saturday evening and neighbours say the bar's customers cause disturbances on a weekly basis.

CAR PARK users in Pinner are being charged for using the free service on a Sunday in Love Lane.

Peter Thatcher, 75, is outraged that the council machines issue tickets on a Sunday in the Marks & Spencer car park in Pinner.

THE manager of the King George IV pub in Pinner has spoken out against plans to turn the building into offices and flats.

Although the owner of the building, Stewart Braddock, lodged an application with Harrow council for a change of use for the historic pub, the manager Paul McEvoy said business at the pub is better than ever.

PUB-GOERS in Pinner are concerned a planning application lodged by the George pub, Marsh Road, would lead to the closure of yet another historic village drinking house.

Luke Moxon, 25, lives in Cannon Lane and visits the nearby pub regularly. He said: "There would be no other place to watch the football in Pinner, after the Hand in
Hand and the Victory closed there's really no where else. It's always busy, especially when there's football on and there is a good mix of people in there. I would definitely object to the plans, I would and I think the community would, it's wrong they are building so many flats and getting rid of social places."

NEIGHBOURS have successfully petitioned to amend an application for the restoration of the last surviving building of a medieval estate in Pinner.

Residents of Hereford Gardens collected 100 signatures objecting plans for the Cannon Farm Barn, Hereford Gardens, to be turned into a Montessori Nursery.

PINNER'S oldest business is celebrating its anniversary with a display of historical artefacts and photographs until September 10.

Lines of Pinner is still run by the Lines family five generations after it opened on the High Street in August 1883.

ONE shop and one office building in Pinner were victims of vandalism last Friday (12).

It is thought Swags and Tails on Bridge Street and an office on Marsh Road, Pinner South were the only places to be targeted during in the village during the London-wide riots.