November 2008 Archives

More than half of GP practices in Westminster are now offering patients longer opening times.

NHS Westminster announced this week that 28 of the 52 practices have signed up to offer extra hours for patients, meeting the Department of Health target before the 1 December deadline.

Community groups and individuals are needed to help improve services in Westminster.

Westminster Local Involvement Network (LINk) is looking for people who use health or social services in the borough to voice their opinions.

A couple became engaged at Marylebone station, the same place their romance began.

David Koya met his now fiancee, Nikki Badejo, outside Marylebone station two years ago.

A Lotto jackpot prize of more than £500,000 has yet to be claimed in Westminster.

The search is on to find the owner of the winning ticket, bought in Westminster, who matched all six numbers of the draw on November 5.

A new project aimed at helping budding young entrepreneurs get their businesses off the ground will be launched tonight.

Westminster Council's leader Cllr Colin Barrow will launch The Youth Enterprise Hub at the Stowe Centre in Harrow Road, Westbourne Green, which aims to support aspiring businessmen and women with practical help.

Plans are underway to cut the huge life expectancy gap within Westminster - one of the biggest in the country.

Westminster PCT's director of public health Dr Margaret Guy presented the latest health annual report revealing the great contrasts in life expectancy between the more affluent and the poorer areas of the borough.

A Marylebone tree has been named one of the greatest in London.

A Huntingdon elm tree in Marylebone High Street joined the roll-call of 'Great Trees of London' compiled by charity Trees for London.

A blaze broke out on the fourth floor of a hotel in Leinster Terrace on Saturday evening at around 10.20pm.

One woman was rescued from the hotel using a turntable ladder, and around 50 other people evacuated the building.

The fire was under control by midnight. The cause of the fire is under investigation.

A free exhibition of photographs is on display at the Spiro Ark gallery, in Enford Street, Marylebone, until January 11.

The display is made up of pictures of New York City parades, taken by Israeli photographer Adi Ashkenazi.

Offenders are making amends for their crimes by improving gardens on a Queen's Park housing estate.

A team of eight offenders has just been assigned to spruce up the gardens of disabled and elderly residents on the Mozart Estate, in Third Avenue.