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A man has been charged with burning down the Feltham Rugby Club changing rooms in Hanworth Air Park in October.

Brendan Burke, 23, of The Drive, Feltham, will appear at Feltham Magistrates Court on December 4 charged with arson following the attack on October 26.

The blaze was the second at the pavilion in Park Road in just two months. The club have lost thousands of pounds worth of memorabilia and players have been forced to changed at the nearby Hanworth Villa FC changing rooms.

• An earlier version of this article appeared stating the name of the man charged as Aiden Burke when it is actually Brendan Burke. We apologise for this error and are happy to put the record straight.

Feltham rugby club are appealing for help to replace memorabilia lost when their clubhouse was burnt down by vandals in August.

Old photos, plaques, trophies and ties were destroyed in the fire at the Hanworth Air Park pavilion and the club are asking for financial contributions or replacement memorabilia to decorate the building once it is refurbished.

Anyone interested in helping should contact club president Frank Parslow by emailing frank.parslow@onetel.net.

A Feltham badminton star launched a set of stamps featuring Olympic sports this week to promote London 2012.

English champion Rajiv Ouseph, who is rated as one of Britain's best badminton hopes for 2012, returned to the British Airways Concorde Centre in Cranford - where he learnt to play as a child - for the launch.

Joyriders went on the rampage in Feltham and Hanworth on Tuesday(25) - ending their spree of destruction by burning down a rugby club pavilion.

A gang uprooted trees, overturned portable toilets and knocked down rugby posts before reversing into Feltham RFC's changing rooms and setting their stolen VW Polo alight.

The building was gutted and the club's training equipment was destroyed in the arson attack - which took place at about 6.30am.

Scientists are looking for Hounslow pensioners to take part in a study of the exercise in the over-65s.

Research staff at University College London are appealing for volunteers to take part in a six month programme of exercise in a bid to promote activity in older people.

Feltham football club are planning to build a new clubhouse at their ground in Shakespeare Avenue.

The club has applied to build the two storey pavilion to complement the new pitches being laid at Feltham Arena.

The Under 15 Whites beat Mayford Gold 2-0. The Under 13 Whites had a hard fought 2-2 draw at Ashford Town with goals from Matt Butler and Turnell Sinclair.

The Under 13 Blues went goal crazy beating AFC Brooklands 18-1 with goals from Milan Punn 4 , Paulo Sampaio 3 , Jake Doyle 3 , Daniel Quintella 2 , Sudeep Gurung 2 , Ian Thomas , Adriano Augsusto , Ben Morris and Ryan Dye.

Bill Ryan and co from Feltham Youth FC Raised a whopping £1300 after the club raised £450 from their charity day in September, Alperton Lodge heard of the work and donated another £250 presented by Alan Taylor and Bill's dad and the rest of the Ryan family donated the remaining £600.

The cheques were presented to Dr Crawshaw the neonatal paediatrician who expressed his gratitutude and explianed that this would be going into the fund to help replace some much needed incubators, exactly like the type Bill's son Michael had used for a month when he was in the unit just after birth.

Here are the results from The Feltham Youth FC games of this weekend.

The Under 17s beat Horsley 8-1 with goals from Ross Ellison 2 , Ben Kendebe 2 , Lewis Wombwell 2 , Stephen Potter and Ramas Sidiqi .

The Under 15 Whites beat Yeading 4-3 in the Middlesex County Cup 2nd Round with goals from Dan Wilson 2 , Charlie Hobbs and Charlie Lawrence.

6 wins , 6 defeats and 3 draws for the Young Feltham Blues today . Ross Ellison grabbed a hat trick for the Under 17s in their win at Oxshott.

Adam Cook grabbed 4 goals as the Under 15 Blues moved to 2nd in the table with a 6-2 win at home to Byfleet. Paulo Sampaio scored a brace for the table topping Under 13 Blues.

The Under 11s gained an excellent 2-2 draw against AFC Wimbledon and Dylan Ingram scored 2 for the Under 11 Reds who won 3-1 at Guildford.