November 2009 Archives

Pay-as-you-go Oyster cards will be valid on South West Trains between Waterloo and Feltham from January 2 2010.

Boris Johnson confirmed last week that commuters will be able to use the Transport for London cards on trains from Feltham, Whitton, Hounslow, Isleworth, Syon Lane, Kew Bridge, Brentford and Chiswick.

A single fare from Feltham will cost £4.90 at peak times and £3.20 off peak, while travellers from Brentford will pay £3.10 at peak teams and £2.30 off peak.

Trains through Feltham returned to a normal timetable this week following last week's bridge collapse.

Engineers built a temporary track around the damaged River Crane bridge over the weekend and South West Trains is hoping to operate a full service until the bridge is repaired.

Residents on a Hanworth estate have been subjected to abuse, intimidation and vandalism since gangs put a CCTV camera out of action.

Police have recorded a 'dramatic rise' in anti-social behaviour on the Butts Farm estate as groups of up to 40 youths have been free to cause trouble in the area.

A single mother who is disabled following complications in her pregnancy has been begging Hounslow Council to sign her 10-month-old son up to a nursery.

Claudia Chambers's hips collapsed while she was pregnant with Taffarigh, leaving her unable to walk and confined to her tiny Hampton Road East flat.

Feltham rugby club are appealing for help to replace memorabilia lost when their clubhouse was burnt down by vandals in August.

Old photos, plaques, trophies and ties were destroyed in the fire at the Hanworth Air Park pavilion and the club are asking for financial contributions or replacement memorabilia to decorate the building once it is refurbished.

Anyone interested in helping should contact club president Frank Parslow by emailing frank.parslow@onetel.net.

A 41-year-old motorcyclist died in a crash on the A316 in Hanworth on Friday afternoon.

The man, who was riding a black Honda motorbike, collided with the central reservation while heading southbound towards Apex Corner just before 3pm. An ambulance was called but he was pronounced dead at the scene.

MP Alan Keen has defended his decision to sign a petition calling for MPs not to be punished retrospectively for their expenses claims.

Mr Keen, who represents Feltham and Heston, has signed a parliamentary motion which asks Sir Ian Kennedy, the chairman of the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority(IPSA), to introduce rules which adhere to the concepts of 'reasonableness and proportionality' and not to apply rules retrospectively.

A junkie who conned cash out of pensioners has been banned from knocking on doors.

Darren Bingham, of Beech Road, Feltham, came to victims' doorsteps in Hanworth, Brentford and Isleworth asking for money to help sick relatives.

A cockerel was battered to death by 'evil' thieves who stole two chickens and seven rabbits from a Hanworth allotment.

The animals, which were kept mainly as pets, were taken from the allotment in Church Road overnight on Sunday.

Anti-social behaviour has gone up 18% in Feltham despite drinking being banned in the town centre.

Boozing on the High Street and surrounding roads was outlawed in March but police recorded an extra 82 offences of anti-social behaviour in the area this summer compared with last year.