September 2009 Archives

Drink drivers and petty criminals have been trimming overgrown bushes, cleaning up graffiti and litter picking around Shepherd's Bush in a new 'community payback' scheme.

Offenders are made to wear high visibility orange jackets while they carry out the unpaid work at various sites such as Oak Lane Sidings Nature Reserve, next to Wormwood Scrubs.

People with a passion for recycling are being recruited to try to cut down the amount of rubbish thrown away on council estates.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council is looking for motivated recycling 'champions' to help promote the environmental benefits to fellow tenants and reduce the cost of sending waste to landfill - currently around around £1.4m a year.

Parents are reminded that Friday (25) is the last day to hand in consent forms at school allowing their daughters to be vaccinated against a virus which can cause cervical cancer.

NHS Hammersmith and Fulham is urging all parents of girls aged 12 to 16 to sign the forms so they can take part in the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination programme.

A kebab shop in Shepherd's Bush has shut down after at least 14 people were struck down with Salmonella poisoning.

The owners of Shahi Nan Kebab in Uxbridge Road agreed to close vountarily while investigations are carried out into reports of 30 possible cases.

Controversial plans to redevelop a Shepherd's Bush industrial estate that is home to Innocent Drinks could be given the green light next week.

Developers London and Newcastle want pull down 11 industrial units on the Goldhawk Industrial Estate to build 57 homes and new commercial space, but residents claim the area will suffer on several fronts if the scheme is approved.

Heavy rain caused dozens of basements around the borough to flood this week and led to a busy night for firefighters.

Crews from Hammersmith and Fulham fire stations attended around 30 calls from residents whose homes were deluged with water following the downpour on Monday.

A mortgage fraudster whose nephew is a convicted heroin dealer was jailed for two years after police uncovered two property scams.

Robert Palmer, 44, of Askew Crescent, Shepherd's Bush, was sentenced at Kingston Crown Court on August 26 for two frauds involving flats in Uxbridge.

Environmental projects are set to start up this month to give young people around Shepherd's Bush the chance to earn back free travel cards which have been taken away for bad behaviour.

The National Young Volunteers Service is launching the scheme in the middle of September, and will arrange for the borough's youth to sign up for one day's conservation work on projects around the capital.

Apprentice-style capers saw private medical staff take over a charity shop today (3) to try to raise as much as they could for charity in one day.

Six BUPA workers have taken on the running of the British Red Cross store in Shepherd's Bush Road, competing against teams in Greenwich, Eltham, Forest Hill and Barking before reconvening in the boardroom to find the winner.