Recently by Jonathan Schofield

YOUNGSTERS at Fairholme School have created an enchanted garden as part of a four-day creative workshop.

All 90 reception pupils at the school took part in the event and had the chance to experience a range of activities such as drama, singing and art and crafts.

TWO men form Feltham have been jailed for burgling a house in Amersham, Buckinghamshire.

Sean McEneaney, 21, from Spinney Drive, admitted breaking into the Amersham Road property on June 9, last year and was sentenced to 15 months at Amersham Crown Court last Monday (March 19).

A 17 year-old male has been arrested in Hayes in connection with a stabbing in Elmwood Avenue, Feltham.

The teenager was arrested on Friday morning (March 23) by officers investigating the attempted murder of 22-year-old Lee Collins.

KIND-HEARTED residents are being reminded that it is still not too late to sign up for this year's Sports Relief Mile.

The event, at 12.30pm on Sunday (March 25), will be held at Feltham Community College and runners can tackle one, three or even six miles.

AN OUT-OF-THIS-WORLD performance helped youngsters from Victoria Junior School reach the national final of a dance competition.

The troupe of little green men and women took to the stage at The Beck Theatre in Hayes last Sunday for the regional heat of Dance Challenge 2012.

THE editor of a national newspaper has gone back to school to help teach youngsters about Stalinist Russia.

Chris Blackhurst, editor of the Independent, took up the role of guest teacher at Feltham's Rivers Academy on Monday (March 12) as part of the national Teach First Week.

PERFORMERS from Hounslow who took part in London's New Year's Day parade repeated their routines at the Paul Robeson Theatre on Thursday last week for the public.

They also received medals from parade director Lizzie Bone and the Mayor of Hounslow, Councillor Amrit Mann.

A NEW free school, which aims to give every pupil the opportunity to attend university, has begun offering places to local youngsters.

Reach Academy Feltham, which is set to open its doors in September, has already received more than 120 applications from parents for places in its first Reception and Year 7 classes.

SPORTS stars of the future are set to receive a boost after Feltham Community College secured £118,882 of Olympic legacy funding.

The cash injection is from Sport England's Inspired Facilities fund, part of the £135million Places People Play legacy programme aimed at bringing the magic of a home Olympic and Paralympic Games into communities across the country.

A WELL-KNOWN children's author has visited Fairholme Primary School to help pupils celebrate World Book Day.

Josh Lacey, author of Bearkeeper, The Island of Thieves and the Grk books, spent last Friday (March 2) running creative writing workshops, reading to youngsters and even opened the school's newly revamped KS2 library.