October 2009 Archives

A Feltham scrap dealer who police believe disposed of a car used in the murder of Milly Dowler has been arrested.

Nirmal Gharu, 40, who used to own an MOT test centre in Hampton Road West, is thought to have disposed of a red Daewoo Nexia car which police think was used to transport the 13-year-old's body.

Eva's florists in Hounslow Road, Hanworth is celebrating 50 years in business.

Visitors last Thursday received complementary glasses of champagne to celebrate 50 years since George and Eva Harding set up shop.

It is now run by granddaughter Sue and great granddaughter Sammy, who received many messages of congratulation and a certificate of thanks from the Royal British Legion for their help with poppy appeals over the years.

A man was hit by a bus in one of two accidents just hours apart in the same road last Friday(16).

Hounslow Road in Feltham was shut for much of the afternoon and evening as first a motorcyclist broke his leg in a crash with a car and later a man suffered serious head injuries when he was hit by a bus.

Hounslow students were shocked into thinking about road safety by a hard-hitting video of a fatal crash.

More than 2,000 pupils in Year 12 at schools throughout the borough attended the Road Safety day in Ealing earlier this month.

Aimed at 16 and 17-year-olds who have just started or will soon start to drive, the 'safe drive stay alive' film involved viewing footage from a real crash in which a teenager was killed interspersed with interviews with members of the emergency services and parents affected by serious or fatal accidents.

Community safety partnership inspector Adrian Baxter said: "This is a powerful and emotive project that sends out a very strong message to young people as they reach an age where they're allowed to drive."

Lower speed limits are being introduced at accident blackspots in Clockhouse Lane and Stanwell Road in Feltham.

Hounslow Council plans to reduce the limit in Clockhouse Lane - where 11 people have been injured in accidents in the last five years - from 60mph to 40mph.

In Stanwell Road the council is planning a reduction from 70mph to 50mph on the dual carriageway, with a further reduction to 40mph at the approach to the junction with Bedfont Road.

South West Middlesex Crematorium has been named as Britain's best cemetery at a national awards ceremony.

The Hanworth crematorium scooped four awards in total at the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management's annual conference on September 29 - most environmentally-friendly, best grounds, most improved and best overall.

A new poll has predicted Brentford MP Ann Keen will lose her seat at the next election - while husband Alan will hold onto Feltham and Heston by his fingertips.

If the results of the Yougov survey, which quizzed 33,610 people in 238 marginal constituencies, were borne out at next year's election, Tory candidate Mary Macloed would replace health minister Mrs Keen as MP for Brentford and Isleworth.

The poll - commissioned by Politicshome.com - predicts Mr Keen, who has represented Feltham since 1992, would just hold on to his seat ahead of Conservative Mark Bowen.

Three members of a family-run drug dealing ring were each sentenced to three years in prison last Friday.

Alan Bishton Snr, his son Alan Jnr and brother Malcolm had admitted intent to supply drugs and nine counts of handling stolen goods after a police raid on their Feltham home found cocaine worth £18,000, £4,000 in cash and £6,000 worth of stolen goods.

The three men, all of Cottington Road, are thought to have been responsible for the majority of drug-dealing on the Oriel Estate in recent years, which they used to finance an international property empire.

A priest has instructed police to serve harassment warnings to five members of his congregation who have had petty disagreements with him.

Paul Williamson, who is priest-in-charge of St George's Church in Hanworth, had the police visit the homes of three men and two woman and serve written allegations of harassment forms on them.

None of the allegations have been proven but the subjects - whose offences include putting up posters in the church and accusing the priest of bullying - are devastated and some are fearing for their jobs.

The Tory party will launch their election campaign next week by using Feltham as an example of 'Broken Britain'.

Shadow immigration minister Damian Green was in the town on Monday making a film about how anti-social behaviour is blighting the country's streets.

A Tory party source told the Chronicle that Feltham was chosen as it had been highlighted as 'somewhere where anti-social behaviour has been a huge problem'.