January 2009 Archives

Security measures are due to be stepped up around a Marylebone building.

Around 200 fixed bollards are set to become a feature outside BBC Broadcasting House, in Portland Place, after Westminster Council granted planning permission last Thursday.

Three community champions were honoured for their work in transforming the lives of Westminster's residents for the better.

Elizabeth Virgo, Isola Akay and Ivy Billard came top of almost 250 nominations and scooped a prize of £1,000 each at Westminster Council's leadership awards ceremony on Thursday.

Children can take part in a series of workshops run by the English National Opera at Westminster libraries.

Throughout January and February, the ENO will present a series of opera-inspired performances based on the story of Hansel and Gretel for children under five.

Pupils from a Maida Vale school celebrated achieving record GCSE results.

On Thursday, students of St George's RC School, in Lanark Road, attended a 'star-studded' event at the Peter Harrison Planetarium in Greenwich.

The bugbear of fixing leaking taps, broken locks and dodgy doors may soon by lifted from some elderly and disabled Westminster residents after the recruitment of a dedicated handyman.

New Zealand-born Rob Mantz will carry out small jobs for free to all eligible residents in the Queen's Park and Harrow Road wards, although he will charge for materials worth more than £50.

The world's largest hanging basket was unveiled in Paddington today.

The jumbo plant pot - which measures six metres by three metres and weighs in at more than a quarter of a ton - can now be seen outside the Hotel Indigo, in London Street.

The number of patients dying following surgery has reduced at a Paddington hospital.

Doctors at St Mary's Hospital, in Praed Street, say the rate of inpatient deaths fell by 40 per cent, and the rate of complications following surgery fell from 11 per cent to 7 per cent.

Passengers will be able to take a new bus from Saturday.

Transport for London (TfL) is introducing the route 228, to run between Central Middlesex Hospital, Park Royal, and Chippenham Road, North Paddington.

A Marylebone shopping district has undergone a multi-million pound revamp, as plans to rejuvenate Edgware Road continue.

Seymour Place, which is located behind Edgware Road and runs from Marylebone up to Marble Arch, has undergone a £400,000 makeover creating a wider pavements laid in granite and York stone.

A former mayor and mayoress of Westminster celebrated their golden wedding anniversary.

Ronnie and Pip Raymond-Cox held a service for friends and family at St Margaret's Church, in Parliament Square, Westminster, on December 20, just over 50 years after they married.