May 2008 Archives

A month-long calender of events for older people begins on Saturday as the 16th annual 50+ Festival gets underway.

Every year in June CIP Arts Team in conjunction with the Older People's Festival Committee put on a celebration of the borough's 50+ community including workshops and opportunities, healthy living and information days, trips down memory lane and windows of opportunity to tomorrows' world.

This year the Hounslow Chronicle's own Eddie Menday (pictured) will open the festival at the Paul Robeson Theatre.

Everyone's heard of Pop Idol, but the Chronicle has launched a four-week contest which will leaf the others behind

Welcome to Tree Idol, where we're asking readers to nominate their favourite tree to be in the running to win £50 to spend on their garden.

Sam Willis netted the winner with five minutes left to land Forge Lane School the Kit Selection Cup this week.

But Jack Taylor was the real hero with two goals as Forge Lane came back from 2-0 down to beat Feltham neighbours Oriel School 3-2. Zac Murphy also pulled off some fine saves for Forge Lane to secure victory, and a new kit courtesy of Homebase and Hanworth Villa U13s.

People of Feltham, your carnival needs you!

This was the urgent plea of parade organisers this week as they appealed for residents with vehicles to deck them out and head down to this year's event.

The pouring rain on Monday threatened to ruin a special fundraiser held in memory of Elouise Littlewood.

But luckily quick-thinking organisers managed to squeeze the entire event inside the Southville Centre, in Bedfont, and even found space for a ball pit and bouncy castle.

Thugs grabbed a man's phone from his hands before punching him in the stomach as he waited at a bus stop last Tuesday.

The 24-year-old victim was in Staines Road, Bedfont, at about midnight when he was assaulted by the two youths.

Friends and family of Elouise Littlewood have organised a fundraiser in her memory.

The event, on May 26, will raise cash for the Shooting Star Children's Hospice.

City workers got a taste of the country after volunteering to help out down at Hounslow Urban Farm last week.

Painting and digging was the order of the day for 11 staff from Anglo-Irish Bank.

Volunteers at Feltham People's Centre are selling off equipment as they prepare to leave their home of 17 years.

The Feltham Community Association (FCA) was ordered out earlier this year and this week members were stripping the building down ready to wave goodbye to the groups who meet there.

Stroke survivors from Feltham who are learning to speak again gathered alongside volunteers from the charity TALK this week to help celebrate their first anniversary at Ashford Hospital.

The Surrey-wide charity is celebrating its tenth anniversary this month and its first year of running workshops at the Staines hospital.