Recently by Ian Proctor

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.

A 95-YEAR-OLD woman from Harrow with suspected hearing problems was saved from a potentially deadly house fire by her property's smoke detector.
Neighbours heard the alarm and dialled 999 after the pensioner, who lived alone, inadvertently left soup to boil dry on the stove of her two-storey maisonette at warden-controlled flats in Claire Court in Westfield Park.

Two women arrested in connection with missing Don Banfield - who disappeared without trace from his Locket Road home in 2001 aged 63 - have been re-bailed by police until January 31.
The pair, aged 63 and 39, were arrested in Canterbury in Kent in February on suspicion of murder and fraud offences.

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 TIP-off led officers from Harrow Police's Wealdstone Anti-Social Behaviour Partnership team to raid a flat in Headstone Drive on Monday evening.
Drugs and cash were recovered and a 24-year-old woman, a resident of the property, was arrested at the scene on suspicion of intending to supply a controlled substance before being released on police bail until November.

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.

Hatch End High School in Headstone Lane, Hatch End, has been handed the Investing in Community Engagement Award by the Special Schools and Academies Trust this month, making it the first of its type in London to receive the honour, which recognises the work it does with the local community.