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Willesden & Brent - Text only page News SPECIAL REPORT: Claims caused by potholes soar by a thirdMORE and more potholes in roads and broken pavements caused the costs of claims relating to injuries on the borough s streets to soar by almost a third. Brent Council s budget report showed that the cost of claims related to accidents by members of the... Councillors slammed for spending £7k on flowersCOUNCILLORS are splashing out thousands of pounds on flowers and plants while snubbing calls for an outdoor play area for the borough s children, it has been claimed. Furious people living in the Preston ward have slammed Cllr Bob Blackman, Cllr Alan Men... Sacked deputy head in posh nosh claimsA DEPUTY headmaster who was sacked for his role in a £1.6 million bonus scandal has accused council chiefs of quaffing wine at plush dinners organised by the school. Richard Evans was fired after an investigation into Copland Community School, in Cecil A... Fury after another bookie applies for licence in the High RoadRESIDENTS say the proliferation of bookies in their area is gambling away the future of their high street. Their protest comes after a bookmakers applied for a licence to open a shop in Kilburn High Road, just a few yards from another betting shop. The... Squatters kicked outSQUATTERS terrorising residents with drug dealing, drinking, fighting and loud music have finally been thrown out by the council. Brent Council and Brent Housing Partnership joined forces to secure possession orders for housing blocks Cambridge Court, Wel... Green light for homes schemeA MASSIVE development, which will mean the demolition of two blocks of council flats, was approved following a heated council meeting. Bronte House and Fielding House, in Kilburn Park Road, south Kilburn, will be demolished as part of a scheme which wi... Novelist wants more caring menA CAREER as a carer may just be the ticket for men who are currently out of work, according to an author. Gill Pharaoh, who has written a book urging more people to put their energy to use in the service of others, said: If I manage to get one person i... Students design Tricycle Theatre posterTALENTED students of art and design have been commissioned by a theatre to help it with advertising. The Tricycle Theatre, in Kilburn High Road, has asked students from the College of North West London to supply it with a leaflet and to design a large... Youths create historic showAN EXHIBITION created by young people about the history of their neighbourhood, has been opened by a BAFTA award-winning director. Kilburn Kultures, the result of a year-long project created by 13 to 25-year-olds at the Granville Plus Youth Arts Centre i... Bishop of London church celebrationsTHE Bishop of London paid a visit to a church to mark 130 years since its consecration. Bishop of London, Dr Richard Chartres, visited St Augustine s Church in Kilburn Park Road, south Kilburn, on Wednesday last week and celebrated High Mass with the con... Letters Sport Late entrant Hazeley's on a highQUEEN S Park Harriers sprinter Richmond Hazeley switched to the high jump to claim a shock county indoor title at Edmonton on Sunday. Hazeley, who usually runs the 100m and 200m, filled in for QPH in the senior high jump at the Middlesex Indoor Championsh... Willesden athletes are running out of cashBy Ben Kosky WILLESDEN S cash-starved junior squad are set to be disbanded later this year – despite claiming their first ever gold medal at the National Indoor Championships. Sprinter Marilyn Nwawullor stormed to gold in the 60m at Birmingham, while two... Willesden squad in running battleBy Ben Kosky WILLESDEN S junior athletes are aiming to strike gold at the National Schools Indoor Championships this weekend – in more ways than one. The squad includes four medallists from the recent South of England Championships – sprint pair Lumar Sy... TVH finish season with a flourishMOHAMUD Adaan led the way as Thames Valley Harriers clinched third place in the final match of the Metropolitan League season at Horsenden Hill. Adaan finished 12th over an unusually firm course, clocking 30 minutes 54 seconds as TVH placed seven runners... Seven go in search of ABA gloryDALE Youth ABC are confident of success when the senior ABA Championships get under way on Thursday night – despite lacking a contender for this year s middleweight crown. The Ladbroke Grove club enjoyed a virtual monopoly on the national middleweight tit... Groves gets Commonwealth title shotHAMMERSMITH S George Groves has his sights set on his first professional title after announcing he will fight for the Commonwealth super-middleweight crown next month. Groves will take on reigning champion, Ghanaian Charles Adamu, on the undercard of Davi... Unlucky Steve'O slips up in semisBy Ziad Chaudry FORMER Dale Youth star Steve O Meara feels bad luck and tactical errors cost him Prizefighter glory – and his unbeaten record – at a packed York Hall. O Meara s 10-fight unbeaten record was ended when he narrowly lost a closely-contested s... Hooks title rubbed out after York Hall ruckHOOKS ABC s first ever London title has been expunged from the record after organisers opted to scrap the capital s NACYP tournament. Andrew Smith thought he had become the Park Royal club s first London champion when he gained a majority decision against... Chunky can be champion right nowBy Ben Kosky JAMES DeGale s trainer believes his man is good enough to win a title now after watching him demolish Matthew Barr on Saturday at Wembley Arena. DeGale s second-round knockout of Barr was only his sixth victory since turning professional, but... Smith must step it upHOOKS ABC s Andrew Smith has been told to raise his game if he wants to become a national finalist for the second year running. Smith, who lost out in the National Schoolboys Championship final last year when he boxed for Dale Youth ABC, claimed a place... Tigers boss Valdas pleased by progressBy Ben Kosky KINGSBURY London Tigers boss Valdas Dambrauskas has conceded promotion is probably out of reach due to his side s daunting fixture backlog. The Tigers, whose 3-1 win over Biggleswade on Saturday nudged them into the top half of the Spartan So... Up Pohnpei - it's Paul's island dreamBy Ian Cooper HE S THE youngest international manager in the world, travelling 8,000 miles to coach the lowest-ranked country in the world – to say Paul Watson likes a challenge is an understatement. When the Hammersmith football journalist announced in J... Stones ready to roll againBy Ian Cooper WEALDSTONE have overcome their mid-season wobble and are now ready to make a charge for the play-offs, according to manager Gordon Bartlett. The Stones ended a run of five winless matches in the Ryman League Premier Division with victory ove... Naylor double sets up H&W successWILL Naylor struck twice in the opening 20 minutes as Hampstead & Westminster dominated the early stages to beat Beeston 3-0 at Paddington Rec. Having lost 5-2 in their previous encounter with Beeston, H&W hit the ground running with three early goals to... Cosmos living the life of RileyDAN Riley scored a hat-trick of tries as the Cosmos turned in a classy performance to beat Old Abbotstonians 58-10 for their biggest league win of the season. Kilburn seized the initiative within the first five minutes as tight head Ehi Alongi drove over... Numbers don't add up for KilburnBy Larry Porter COSMOS failed to capitalise on a numerical advantage as they lost 27-18 to Old Haberdashers in a bad-tempered clash at Gladstone Park. The visitors had two men yellow-carded, with only one against Kilburn – but looked better drilled as the... What's On Mass Effect 2IT S hard to know where to place Mass Effect 2, whether it s to suggest a space opera in the mould of the Halo franchise or instead to describe it as something of a dark sci-fi thriller that resembles a movie. Perhaps it s just the believable, interactiv... Halo 3: ODSTAFTER being dragged into the slipstream of a spaceship your capsule has crash landed on the planet s surface. You ve lost your crack Orbital Drop Shock Trooper (ODST) squad, some of the toughest and bravest soldiers of the UNSC. Now you must search fo... Assassin’s Creed IIIt s a hard life being the son of a rich banker in 15th century Florence: chasing girls, parties and a fight with rival gangs, but there s something of a surprise in store for the soon to be droves of Assassin s Creed II fans. Those devotees of the firs... Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2WITH the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 only the naive will fail to recognise computer games as the dominant art form of contemporary culture. Many will argue that opera, theatre and visual arts remain among the guiding lights of our aesthetic... BorderlandsAcres of post-apocalyptic wasteland roll out before your battleworn, rusty rifle before a monowheel droid hands over a HUD display implant chip for monitoring health and bleeps that you should follow it. Most notable, is the radical, manga-styled, hand dr... Dragon Age: OriginsTAKE a deep breath as you fire up this deepest and darkest of games that as readily explores the realms of dreams as it does nightmares. Dragon Age: Origins is everything any fan of the role-playing genre has been swearing an oath of allegiance for these... Forza Motorsport 3THAT old sims vs arcade debate over what s best about driving games has been beautifully highlighted once more with the release of Forza Motorsport 3. And while I ll freely admit to being more inclined towards your trading paint, smash and grab racer w... Nitin Sawhney with the LSOMULTI-instrumentalist, songwriter and orchestral composer, Nitin Sawhney is the creative force behind a soundtrack project to be performed by the London Symphony Orchestra during a screening of a 1933 silent film. The acclaimed flamenco guitarist and c... Hands well worth the waitby Tim Cole It feels like we have been waiting an eternity to get our hands on Little Boots debut album. For everyone who watched in awe as 24-year-old Victoria Hesketh commanded the attention of the music world with a performance for Jo... From Russia with loveby Andy McCorkell Russian fairy tales really do happen it seems though it appears that one is just about to conjure up a darker and more interesting tale. And after lighting up Kilburn High Road, with a stunning performance at a recent op... Return to London24 home page |