February 2009 Archives

A free exhibition is to open in Marylebone from next Thursday.

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in Portland Place, will host Le Corbusier's Cabanon, until April 28.

A North Paddington city guardian took time out from patrolling Harrow Road to run a half marathon.

Edward Chapman completed the Sussex half marathon last weekend to raise £200 for the Disabled Living Foundation (DLF), a charity based in Harrow Road.

A Bayswater housing estate has been fitting with award-winning recycling chutes to help residents recycle more.

All 14 blocks on the Hallfield Estate now have the chutes, which are made by converting ordinary rubbish chutes to take recycling.

A couple from Maida Vale is appealing for priceless stolen video camera footage of their newborn son to be returned.

The flat of Sandra and Michael Abittan in Warrington Cresent, and another in the same block, were targeted by thieves on January 20, sometime between 11am and 4.30pm.

A team of offenders has spruced up a Maida Vale garden in a bid to make up for their crimes.

The 'community payback scheme' is made up of six offenders, who will tackle small but neglected grot spots across the borough.

A housing trust in Lisson Grove is throwing opening its doors to celebrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history month.

Notting Hill Housing in Penfold Street is holding an open day on February 22, from 11.30am, to mark the start of regular LGBT group activities at the centre.