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Disablement charity urges firms to offer work experience to disabled youngsters

A CHARITY is urging more firms to offer work placements to disabled young people after a successful pilot scheme at the Hyde Park Hayes office complex.Read

Gardener's Question Time is coming to Ickenham

THE BBC’s Gardeners’ Question Time will be recorded in the borough at the beginning of April.Read

Can you lend a hand to help clean up our waterways?

ENVIRONMENTAL group Thames21 needs volunteers to help with a waterway clean-up.Read

Healthy eating cookery roadshow begins a tour of Hayes

WOULD you like to become a kitchen king or a cuisine queen?Read

Wanted: Conservation volunteers at Denham Quarry

HAREFIELD: Members of the public will be restoring the picnic area in Colne Valley Park to its former glory on Saturday.Read

College revamp hits the right note with students

HAYES Community Campus is tucked away in a cul-de-sac just off Coldharbour Lane, fairly well away from the town centre – and perhaps it is for that reason that many people simply do not know it exists.Read

Join the gardening gang at Uxbridge Community Centre

THE Uxbridge community centre in The Greenway is launching a fortnightly gardening club to give the centre’s garden a makeover.Read

Cameron pips high quality field to win our great photo competition for youngsters

CAMERON BURTON from Ruislip has been judged the winner of the 12-16 age group in the Gazette’s photo competition ‘Through Younger Eyes’, which ran at the tail end of 2012.Read

Tree planting marks 80th anniversary of Uxbridge Rotary

THE Rotary Club of Uxbridge celebrated its 80th anniversary – and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee – by planting a Cedar of Lebanon tree in Court Park, Hillingdon.Read

Lifting the veil on the practice of being a freemason

I REALLY did not know what to expect when I was invited to an open meeting of the Little Britain Lodge at the Uxbridge Masonic Centre. I knew little more than the traditional view of the organisation and was half expecting to be greeted by men with a ‘special’ handshake and their trouser legs rolled up.Read

Cash boost for Harlington Hospice summer fair plans

HARLINGTON Hospice is to receive a £2,500 boost to help improve its annual summer fair thanks to the Heathrow Communities Together fund.Read

Community radio station gets £1,000 boost to help with recruiting young presenters

hayes: Community radio station Hayes FM has been awarded a grant of £1,000 by the Heathrow Communities Together fund to enable it to recruit and train more young volunteers.Read

Caring course could open up a new career for over 50s

UXBRIDGE College and Age UK Hillingdon are teaming for a second year to run a seven-day training course aimed at teaching the basic skills needed for a career in health and social care.Read

Com Cafe aims to get people in the festive mood

THE Com Cafe on the Glebe Estate in West Drayton is arranging a number of festive events for families in the run-up to Christmas.Read

Hillingdon St John members presented with service medals

NINE volunteer members of St John Ambulance in Hillingdon, were honoured in a ceremony at the Grand Priory Church of St John in Clerkenwell last month.Read

Santa's giving the reindeer a rest and arriving by boat

SANTA has decided to give his reindeer some time off this year and will be arriving in Yiewsley on Saturday by boat along the Grand Union Canal.Read

Charity explores idea of Plus Bus service between villages

A CHARITY is investigating the possibility of introducing a bus service between the Heathrow villages of Sipson and Harmondsworth next year.Read

Have your say on health and care service reorganisation

PEOPLE in the borough have the chance to give their views on proposed amendments to local health services at a conference being organised by Age UK Hillingdon.Read

Age UK stages Christmas Market in Uxbridge

UXBRIDGE: Age UK Hillingdon is holding a Christmas market on Saturday, December 8.Read

Unlocking the hidden gems of Hayes

THERE are many causes for optimism for Hayes’s future, with developments such as Crossrail and the regeneration of the area around the old EMI factory. But, while these may still be a way off, there are many existing parts of the town that deserve a higher profile.Read