Recently by Ian Proctor

MORE books are being borrowed and performers are enjoying a more professional setting following a decision two months ago to relocate Hatch End Library.
Harrow Council moved the facility into Harrow Arts Centre itself, reopening to the public on March 27, and converted the building it occupied in the same Uxbridge Road, Hatch End, complex back into its original use as a dance studio from April 1.

PINNER: Fundraisers will take to the fairway for a charity golf classic match being organised by Harrow and Wembley-based estate agent Elliot Lee at Pinner Hill Golf Club, Pinner Hill, next Friday, from 8.30am.

Teams of four will compete in the best ball format for three top prizes. Entry fees and raffle profits will generate money for the Missing People charity.

Call Elliot Lee on 0845 450 1566 for more information.

HATCH END: Hatch End Safer Neighbourhood Team ward panel is looking for new members to help have a say on community policing matters.

Interested parties should contact the team's Sergeant Pete Carruthers on 020 8721 2998 or email HatchEnd.SNT@met.police.uk

HARROW WEALD: Punch Taverns sold The Wealdstone Inn to a mystery buyer for an undisclosed sum three weeks ago.

The firm would not disclosed to whom or for how much it had offloaded the boozer in High Road, which locals are saying stood boarded up from the inside since at least Friday April 27.

HATCH END: The owners of Greenways, a large detached three-storey house in Uxbridge Road where vulnerable adults with learning disabilities are looked after, is seeking to change its designation from just a care home to 'secure residential accommodation' to ensure it fully complies with planning law.

Pathways Care Group, based in Grove Hill Road, Harrow, applied to Harrow Council on Friday to change the permitted use of the building from C2 class to C2A class.

HARROW: Sporty schoolchildren could enjoy playing on a new multi purpose games pitch proposed for Hatch End High School in Headstone Lane, Harrow, on land where plans for a new indoor swimming pool to replace an outdoor one were abandoned over funding issues.

The school applied for permission from Harrow Council on Thursday for the area, along with four 8.25m-high floodlighting columns, a 1.8m-high fence and a 3m-high sports fence, access ramps and security gates,

A TAKEAWAY shop has won the right to serve alcohol with meals to customers eating in.
Balwinder Singh Chhokar, owner of Kemps Fish Bar in High Road, Harrow Weald, already had a licence to supply alcohol for consumption off the premises but successfully applied to Harrow Council to sell to customers eating in, as well as to extend the opening hours.

Fun lovers should head to a 1960s-themed fundraising night being held to raise money for Harrow Association of Disabled People.
The party, on Thursday April 5, from 7pm to 10pm, at The Wealdstone Centre in High Street, will feature a live band called Final Reminder.
The £5 tickets can be bought from the venue's Red Brick Cafe or by calling 020 8861 9920.

Bosses at art material manufacturer ColArt Group requested from Harrow Council on Tuesday details of what they need to cover in an environmental impact assessment accompanying any future planning application to redevelop its redundant former factory in Whitefriars Avenue.
The firm plans include building 198 houses and flats.

The jury in the three week long trial of two women accused of killing retired betting shop manager Don Banfield, who disappeared from his Locket Road home in May 2001 aged 63, was sworn in yesterday (Wednesday) at the Old Bailey.

His ex-wife Shirley Banfield, 64, and daughter Lynette Banfield, 41, both of Canterbury, Kent, and on conditional bail, deny murdering him between between May 10 and May 16 2001, and the prosecution was expected to open its case today (Thursday).

The pair also deny conspiracy to defraud William Hill, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice between August 12 2009 and July 6 2011, and making a false instrument, namely submitting a forged application form for disability living allowance to the Department of Work and Pensions.

Mrs Banfield denies a further charge with dishonestly retaining wrongful credit of £34,382.