March 2009 Archives

The Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Richard Chartres met priests, ministers and spiritual heads from Chiswick to Feltham on Monday 30th March and advised them to 'be convinced, be humble, be joyful and look cheerful in your faith'.

Feltham MP Alan Keen insisted he had 'pushed extremely hard' to keep Feltham jobcentre open as he visited the limited new job services on offer at Hanworth Library.

Mr Keen welcomed the introduction of a new remote service, which will see two advisors visit the library for one morning a fortnight and The Centre Feltham every other week.

The Bedfont and Feltham Extended Services Co-ordinator Pat Kirkwood paid a visit to the Fairholme Estate to speak to the Rotary Club following their involvement in one of his projects.

Hounslow police have upped their patrols of the area around Bedfont Cemetery following the apparent theft of a gravestone.

The Chronicle reported last week how the family of a former air force sergeant John Moriarty were left devastated after his headstone and other parts of his grave went missing.

Plans to redevelop former gravel pits in Feltham and build up to 1,000 new homes on Green Belt land have received a mixed response from residents.

The results of a public consultation into the ambitious proposals for the Lower Feltham Lakes site, in Chertsey Road, have finally been released.

A £20 million scheme to replace Feltham People's Centre with a new state-of-the-art college is still hanging in the balance after the Government deferred its decision.

The Learning Skills Council, who were lined up to pay for the ambitious building project, announced last week that they were again deferring their funding decisions on several schemes including the new Feltham Skills Centre.

Desperate Feltham Marshalling Yards protesters are calling on local bird-spotters and wildlife enthusiasts to help them defend the nature reserve from development by BAA.

The furious residents, who live around the former Feltham Marshalling Yards site, are appealing for help in their battle to stop BAA reopening the overgrown site as a train depot for a new fast rail service.

Spiralling unemployment figures have prompted Hounslow Council leader Peter Thompson to launch one last impassioned plea on behalf of Feltham Job Centre, which is due to close in three weeks.

The unpopular move, which was set in motion before the recession really began to bite, means nearly 1,000 Feltham jobseekers will be forced to travel to Hounslow for job advice and support.

Feltham Rotary Club gained a new member when Max Bernard was inducted at the Club's meeting at Fairholme on 24th February.

Max is Head of Security at Feltham Magistrates' Court and was introduced to the Club by one of the magistrates, Mike Akers, who is also a Rotarian and a member of the Kew Gardens Club.