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We hope you have a great day today, on Thursday 4 November.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, about the Autumn rowing regatta coming to the Brentford waters this month, which will see 100 local children take part in the competition and a medal ceremony led by the Mayor. Find out where the best viewing spot.

Today's weather: Highs of 10 degrees and lows of 3 degrees, light rain changing to cloudy by late morning, according to the met office, with wind gusts between 25 – 18 mph.

Met Office news: The global mean temperature for 2021 (based on data from January to September) was about 1.08 C above the 1850-1900 average.

Traffic: Queueing traffic on M4 Eastbound between J3 / A312 (Hayes / Heston) and J2 A4 Great West Road (Brentford). Where three lanes drop to two, a mile before J2.

Todays Sunrise: 6:59 am

Todays Sunset: 4:29 pm

Todays Moonrise: 5:11 am

Todays Moonset: 5:37 pm

Brentford Lock High Tide: 1:35 am and 1:11 pm

Brentford Lock Low Tide: 9:10 am and 9:43 pm

Pollution: Low

UV: Low

Supermarket opening times Brentford: 

Morrisons: 7am – 11pm

Costcutter (High Street): 7am – 10:30pm

Al Shaam Market: 7am – 9pm

Co-op (Boston Manor Road): 7am – 10pm

Don't miss: Our Brentford Event of the Week as an outdoor theatre performance comes to the Bell Square on Hounslow High Street this Saturday, called Urban Astronaut.

As the COP26 global climate conference takes place this week, this show deals with the issue of air pollution through story-telling and moving dance.

Joke of the Day: Why did the M&M go to school?

A. It wanted to be a Smartie.

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