November 2009 Archives

Budding singers are invited to try out for a new community choir in North Paddington.

A taster session of the Harrow Road Community Choir will be held at Paddington Academy, in Marylands Road, on December 2.

Months of disruption could face parts of Paddington as lorries begin removing earth to make way for the Crossrail tunnel.

Campaigners fear an increase in traffic, excessive noise and vibrations and a rise in pollution levels as work gets under way on the new Berkshire to Essex rail link.

Supermarket giant Tesco has been accused of killing local businesses as it plans to open a fourth store in Marylebone.

Independent traders fear a massive drop in trade when a branch of Tesco Express is launched in George Street, adding to the pressure already felt from three existing stores in Baker Street, Marylebone High Street and Melcombe Street.

Around 50 people were evacuated when a fire broke out at a Marylebone hotel this morning.

A small part of the basement of the four-storey hotel in Manchester Street was damaged by the fire.

A much-loved boat service which ferries passengers from Little Venice to Camden is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.

The London Waterbus canal trips have delighted millions of visitors over the past five decades, including more than 58,000 trips taken this summer alone.

Market traders in North Paddington will be helping raise money for Children in Need on Friday.

Maida Hill Market stallholders and Maida Hill Cafe Gallery will make a donation from every sale to the charity from 12pm to 6pm, on November 20.

To find out more, call Harrow Road Neighbourhood Partnership on 020 8968 5543.

A series of Christmas card-making workshops will be held at Maida Vale library.

Paper artist Danila Nargisi will host the sessions from 5pm-6pm at the library in Sutherland Avenue, on November 24, December 1 and December 9.

For more information or to book a place, call the library on 020 7641 1300.

A tribute afternoon will be held in memory of Cllr Mushtaq Qureshi.

The popular Queen's Park ward councillor, who died last month, will be remembered at the Beethoven Centre, in Third Avenue, on Sunday, November 29.

Candidates for a by-election to be held in the Queen's Park ward have been announced.

Abdul Ahad will stand for the Conservative party, Mark Blackburn for the Liberal Democrats, Patricia McAllister for the Labour party and Susanna Rustin for the Green party, at the by-election on Thursday, December 10.

The election was called following the death of Labour councillor Mushtaq Qureshi earlier this year.

Thousands of patients will benefit from the opening of a £4million acute imaging centre at a Paddington hospital.

Based close to A&E, the new facility at St Mary's Hospital, in Praed Street, will house two new scanners.