Health

A company has been fined £15,000 after a contractor died when he fell through the roof of a warehouse.

Richard Gibbs had not been trained to work as a roofer when he fell seven metres to his death on the Mercury Centre industrial estate in Central Way, Feltham in January 2007.

The 24-year-old stepped on a fragile roof sheet which gave way and, despite being taken to hospital by air ambulance, he died of his injuries.

S/F: Each week a group of amateur artists with mental health problems fight for elbow room in a tiny former public toilet in Feltham. ED SAUNT went to meet the Doorways Arts and Crafts group to find out about this unusual form of therapy.

Former residents of the Feltham Dene care home have been left 'disorientated and unsettled' in temporary accommodation, Hounslow Council has admitted.

The Spring Road care home was shut down on October 8 after unsafe levels of Legionella bacteria were found in the water supply but families of the 34 elderly residents have not been told if or when it will be safe for them to move back in.

Hounslow Council has stopped paying the company that runs the care home that was shut down when Legionnaires bacteria was found in the water supply.

Feltham Dene was closed by the council on October 8 after dangerous levels of bacteria were found during routine testing.

A man was injured in a collision between a car and a motorbike near the rail bridge in Hounslow Road, Feltham today (Friday).

The man was taken to St Peter's hospital following the crash at about 1.10pm.

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Sam and Alice Fox share a rare sibling bond - they both suffer from epilepsy.

But, while 23-year-old Alice can lead a normal life with the aid of medication, older brother Sam has daily seizures and has to live in a residential care home.

The gulf between their conditions and the different lives they lead sheds light on the wide spectrum of symptoms brought on by this much-misunderstood condition.

A teenager was hospitalised after his bedroom ceiling collapsed on him as he slept last Tuesday.

Nineteen-year-old Matondo Buayi was sleeping in his flat in Gardner House, Water Mill Way, Feltham when the ceiling fell in at about 12.30am.

The fire brigade were called and Mr Buayi was rescued from the rubble and rushed to West Middlesex hospital with back and head injuries.

Feltham churches have stopped serving communion wine in an effort to halt the spread of swine flu.

Christ Church, Southville Methodist Church and St Dunstan's Church announced in a newsletter last week that they would be following advice from church leaders not to pass around the wine chalice.

The letter said: "At Holy Communion we will be following the advice to the whole Church of England not to share the chalice at present because of concern about spreading the swine flu virus."

The lifts at Feltham Health Centre broke down on Tuesday, leaving pensioners and the disabled to struggle to get to the third floor surgery.

Patients were forced to walk up three flights of stairs, while some wheelchair users were taken up in a service lift after the two main lifts broke down at about 8.40am.

Health bosses faced criticism in April for opening the five GP surgeries on the third floor of the building in The Centre and those concerns were borne out as access proved difficult.

Forty-one percent of 11-year-olds in Feltham and Bedfont are overweight and in some schools more than a quarter of children are clinically obese, a study has revealed.

The figures presented to Hounslow councillors last week were described by one
expert as 'frightening'. He warned childhood obesity in the borough was a 'time bomb waiting to explode'.

A measurement programme of Year 6 pupils found that 41% of Feltham and Bedfont schoolchildren are overweight or obese - compared with 33% nationally - while 30% of local Reception age pupils were overweight - against the 23% national average.