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  • Leisure centre launches training scheme

    A leisure centre is offering people in their teens and early 20s the chance take part in traineeships to experience work in the industry. Leisure operator Everyone Active, which runs Harrow Leisure Centre in partnership with Harrow Borough Council

  • Borough's Navratri celebrations begin

    An annual festival celebrated by the Hindu community began this week. Hundreds of people from across the borough will join in with celebrations to mark Navratri. Members of the International Siddhashram Shakti Centre, in Palmerston Road, took

  • Library secret garden project launched

    The man behind a project to restore a library’s secret garden is calling on the community to get involved. Russell Sutcliffe is urging people to form a community gardening group to help reinvigorate the garden at Kenton Library, in Kenton Library

  • MP visits new hospice care centre as work nears competition

    An MP was given a tour of a new treatment centre at a hospice which is close to completition. MP for Harrow East Bob Blackman visited the new Woodgrange Centre at St Luke’s Hospice which is due to officially in the coming months. The hospice

  • Travesty if this museum closes

    Earlier this month, Harrow Borough Council’s Labour administration proposed a series of controversial cuts to local services — one of which is to close Harrow Museum at Headstone Manor. As both a Headstone North councillor and a teacher by profession

  • Commuters deserve better

    I am appalled to see that plans, uncovered by Labour members of the Greater London Authority, show that Harrow & Wealdstone Station may lose up to seven staff. This a blow for the safety of the travelling public in Wealdstone. Our station is

  • Please donate to this vital study of ME

    Like approximately 500 residents in Harrow borough, I have the devastating neuro-immune disease myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). It is as disabling as multiple sclerosis and many people are ill for decades

  • Rethink decision and keep free displays

    London’s New Year's Eve fireworks showcase the capital to the world and we should delight in their immense popularity. Yet sadly, the Mayor of London is making the decision to introduce a £10 charge for the annual event this year — even children will

  • Think about joining new campaigning network

    At Diabetes UK we believe every person with diabetes deserves the best treatment and services. Receiving all the checks, seeing the right healthcare professionals and understanding diabetes are vital in supporting the best possible self-management

  • Every used stamp has a value in eyes of charity

    Thank you to whoever put four envelopes of stamps through my letterbox for St Luke’s Hospice. Used stamps help to raise funds for charity — in this case St Luke’s — and every used stamp has a value. Once again, thank you. John Cope

  • Medical centre to hold health fayre

    People are able to get free advice about their family’s well being at a health fayre tomorrow. St Peter’s Medical Centre in Colbeck Road, West Harrow, will be holding the open day from 1pm to 4pm. There will be advice stalls offering people