October 2009 Archives

A community centre which made life unbearable for North Paddington residents with bands playing steel drums late at night has been fined.

A number of complaints were made about the Yaa Asantewa Arts Centre, in Chippenham Mews, including some neighbours who said the steel band practice was so loud they could not even talk in their own homes.

"A sad loss" is how friends have described the death of a popular Queen's Park councillor.

Cllr Mushtaq Qureshi, who served the Queen's Park ward as as Labour councillor since 1994 and was the first Bangladeshi councillor to be elected to Westminster Council, passed away at the age of 76 following a short illness.

A postman was assaulted during an attempted robbery in Queen's Park.

The 25-year-old postie was driving a Royal Mail van along Portnall Road and pulled into Kilburn Lane at around 6.30pm last night.

Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a serious sexual assault in Paddington.

The assault took place in the early hours of Friday, April 10, outside Edgware Road's Bakerloo line station, near the junction of Edgware Road and Marylebone Road.

Spooky Halloween events are due to take place at Maida Hill Market this half term.

From tomorrow until Saturday, the market, at the corner of Harrow Road and Elgin Avenue, plays host to a series of pumpkin workshops with Thomas Watt.

Meet the more colourful characters of Paddington in days gone by, with a special Guy Fawkes Day guided walk.

On November 5, a tour guide will explore the 'Bad and the Wayward', including highwaymen and heroes, who have passed through the area over the years.

Two designers have won a competition to kick-start their fashion business in Bayswater.

Shoe designer Joanne Stoker, and womenswear fashionista Julia Smith, have received a rent and rates-free shop in Porchester Place for six months.

Grisly tales of ghouls, ghosts and vampires will be told inside a traditional Mongolian yurt on Halloween and All Souls' Sunday.

Stories by authors including Angela Carter and Mick Jackson will be told inside the tent, with guests sitting on sheep skin rugs.

Learn more about the real story of Guy Fawkes at a workshop in North Paddington on Monday, October 26.

Artist Polly Brannan will run the free session, which starts at 2pm, at Paddington Arts, in Woodfield Road.

A man was found seriously injured at a block of flats in Lancaster Gate, at around 2am on Sunday.

The 41-year-old man, who was found near a communal stairway, was taken to hospital suffering a head injury, where he remains in a critical condition.