November 2008 Archives

Carol singers are invited to a service in a Fulham church.

On Sunday, December 21, there will be a joint carol service at St Matthew's Church in Wandsworth Bridge Road, Fulham, at 6.30pm.

A Christmas bazaar will be held at Our Lady's Hall next to Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church in Stephendale Road, Fulham, on Saturday.

A tombola, raffle, bric-a-brac, cakes, Christmas cards and gifts will be on sale and childrens' activites and refreshment will be available from 2pm until 5pm.

Have your say on a new Shepherd's Bush bus route via Old Oak Common Lane, Uxbridge Road, Bloemfontein Road and South Africa Road, finishing at Maida Hill.

Single deck 228 buses will run daily from 5.30am until 12.30am, with the route beginning at 6.30am on Sundays.

Asbestos in old buildings is causing the death of at least one person in Hammersmith and Fulham every year, new research shows.

Statistics released last week revealed the borough is ranked 24th out of the 33 in London for deaths and illnesses caused by the substance.

The table - topped by Barking & Dagenham - was issued by the Health and Safety Executive to coincide with its campaign, Asbestos: The Hidden Killer, which is set to run through November.

Motorists in London's most congested borough will get a clear run of green lights under a shake up of traffic signals.

Hammersmith and Fulham, which officially has the most clogged-up streets in the capital with a frustrating 7.6 million hours lost in traffic every year, has been one of the first boroughs to benefit from a city-wide review of traffic lights.

The junction of North End Road, Dawes Road and Jerdan Place in Fulham is among 150 sites whose signal timings have been altered since July under the Transport for London scheme.

Former homeless veterans met the Countess of Wessex today when she visited a Fulham project aimed at getting them back into work .

The Countess met John Khristian and Dave Clark at the Pryors Bank Cafe in Bishops' Park by Putney Bridge, where they are learning restaurant skills.

The sons of a Fulham barber who died last year have today reopened the original family salon in a tribute to their dad.

Dino Constanti owned men's hairdressing salon 'Dino's' in Cassidy Road, Fulham, from 1958 to 1976. It closed down when he moved to a bigger shop in Jerdan Place, Fulham, where a branch still stands today.

Adventurous young members of a Hammersmith-based circus school passed their achievement certificates with flying colours, writes Robert Szmigielski.

The awards were presented to five youngsters and the artistic director of Albert & Friends Instant Circus at the Jack Petchey Foundation Achievement Awards at London's Mermaid Conference & Events Centre.

The circus, which is celebrating it's 25th year, teaches circus skills such as juggling and stilt walking to youngsters, and has over 300 members.

Traders in a popular shopping area have won a campaign to keep the supermarket giant Tesco out of their street.

Plans to redevelop a site in Munster Road and make way for a Tesco Express supermarket with two floors of office space were denied by Hammersmith and Fulham Council on October 28.

The firm also wanted to build an additional single-storey office and a separate two-storey, three-bedroom house on the site.

News these days is all a bit doom and gloom.

West London woman Katy Seath reckons she has the perfect tonic.

The vocalist, who fronts local band Bassistry, wants to help you find your voice and lift your spirits, with The Courage to Sing in Hammersmith.

The first class, at the Ravenscourt Theatre School, Galena Road, Hammersmith, is on tonight, but interested adults can still sign up for the remaining five weeks, until next Thursday.

"Singing is a really uplifting thing to do, especially in the current turbulent times," Katy, from Chiswick, says.

Far from a frightening stand-up solo, or boring sing-along class, Courage to Sing aims to improve participants' creativity, self-confidence, health and imagination, as well as their vocal talents.