September 2009 Archives

Police are appealing for witnesses after a woman was seriously assaulted in her Lisson Grove home.

The woman, in her 40s, was attacked and robbed by a man who talked his way into her Penfold Street home, at around 2.30pm on Friday, September 18.

An elderly Lisson Grove woman died after falling down steps at her home, an inquest heard.

Rose Cross, 95, was living at Penn House, a sheltered housing block in Mallory Street, when she fell and hit her head.

Traders in Bayswater have seen customer numbers halved since roadworks closed their busy shopping street.

Shopkeepers along Queensway, many of whom are already struggling because of the recession, believe the noisy road-works and a lack of parking spaces have deterred shoppers from the area.

Drawings and paintings by artist Emma Humphrey are on display at Paddington Library until October.

The exhibition, at the Porchester Road library, is free to view and does not require booking.

An inspirational football coach who teaches underprivileged children in North Paddington has picked up two prestigious awards.

Andrew Amers-Morrison, 39, who founded the Samba Street Soccer club on the Brunel Estate, in Westbourne Park Road, won the community award at the GG2 Leadership and Diversity Awards, dubbed the 'Ethnic Oscars', which recognise achievement across minority communities in the UK.

Super slimmers from Bayswater are set to part in a world record-breaking birthday party on Thursday.

Members of the Bayswater Slimming World group, who meet at Pickering Hall, on the Hallfield Estate, are hosting a 1969-themed party in celebration of the 40th anniversary of Slimming World.

Seven people were injured after a pellet gun was fired in North Paddington.

Police were called at around 8pm last night, to reports of shots being fired from the balcony of a block of flats in Elgin Avenue.

Several people were evacuated from their homes when a fire broke out at a flat in Maida Vale yesterday morning.

The fire brigade was called to the Oxford Road flat shortly after 7am, and crews had brought the blaze under control by 7.43am.

Hundreds of patients needing intravenous antibiotics are being treated at home - assisting their recovery and freeing up hospital beds at a Paddington hospital.

Recently published figures have shown that a massive 7,394 in-patient bed days were saved at St Mary's Hospital, in Praed Street, between September 2004 and April 2008 thanks to the pioneering OHPAT (outpatient and home parenteral antimicrobial therapy) service, which allows patients to be managed at home.

An iconic Abbey Road street sign made famous by the Beatles' multi-million selling album is to be auctioned on eBay today along with more than 40 other signs from renowned Westminster streets.

The enamelled steel sign, which was installed near the world-famous St John's Wood zebra crossing six years ago, was removed in 2007 because graffiti messages from Beatles' fans could not be scrubbed off.