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Gangs drawn to late night shisha cafés in Uxbridge Road are responsible for a spate of violence which saw five people stabbed over the Christmas period, according to the prospective Tory MP for Shepherd's Bush.

One 24-year-old man was hit over the head and stabbed twice in the back after being set upon by a group of six men just before midnight on Christmas Day, on the corner of Warbeck Road.

Tonight's question and answer session with Tory leader David Cameron will be held at St Paul's Church in Queen Caroline Street, Hammersmith.

The 'Cameron Direct' event, in which around 150 residents will be able to quiz the prospective Prime Minister, has been brought forward an hour to 6pm.

The contentious plans for a new housing development in Goldhawk Road, Shepherd's Bush, is likely to be high on the agenda.

Those wishing to attend must have booked places in advance.

Tory leader David Cameron will take questions from voters at an event in Hammersmith tomorrow night (5).

Opponents of a contentious housing scheme in Shepherd's Bush are planning to attend to voice their anger over Hammersmith and Fulham Council's approach to development, as the Conservative authority is widely seen as a flagship for Cameron's potential government.

Shoppers attempting late Christmas shopping at Westfield were trapped for hours in gridlocked streets last night as heavy traffic crawled its way through ice and snow.

Customers reported queues of up to two hours to get out of the car park of the shopping centre, with congestion backed up all the way from Shepherd's Bush to Hammersmith Broadway and down Fulham Palace Road.

One 29-year-old shopper, from Putney, said: "I waited for 40 minutes for a bus which didn't turn up, and a taxi refused to take me because the traffic was completely gridlocked. It was a nightmare."

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A bitterly contested development on the site of a former care home in Shepherd's Bush was given the green light last night despite angry protests at Hammersmith Town Hall.

Around 70 residents opposed to plans for 66 new homes in Goldhawk Road brought placards and banners to the planning meeting and heckled councillors throughout the four-hour debate.

A new website offering opinions on all Hammersmith and Fulham's public services has been slammed as a waste of time and money by town hall chiefs despite painting a rosy picture of life in the borough.

The Oneplace service unveiled today (9) was created to give people an independent overview of how their council, police and health service are performing on issues such as crime, levels of affordable housing and general quality of life.

People living in two five-storey blocks of flats have been stuck with no running water for two weeks after engineers failed to fix a burst mains pipe.

Residents of Campbell House and Mitchell House in the White City Estate have been unable to wash, flush their toilets or boil the kettle for days on end since the problem began on November 7, and have had to fill up from a temporary standpipe in the street.