Welcome to our Brentford Breakfast Briefing!

Look out for our morning briefing on weekdays with all the essentials of our town.

We hope you have a great day today, on Friday 5 November.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, as the Hounslow Conservative opposition leader came under fire for compared new traffic lanes in Chiswick to apartheid measures in South Africa. Read Cllr Salman Shaheen's response here.

Today's weather: Highs of 9 degrees and lows of 7 degrees, clear changing to cloudy by lunchtime, with wind gusts between 9 – 14 mph.

Met Office news: The summer of 2021 was Europe's hottest on record with temperatures close to 1°C above the 1991-2020 average, according to new analysis.

Todays Sunrise: 7:01 am

Todays Sunset: 4:28 pm

Todays Moonrise: 6:06 am

Todays Moonset: 6:34 pm

Brentford Lock High Tide: 2:22 am and 2:42 pm

Brentford Lock Low Tide: 11:02 am and 11:25 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 What's On in Brentford and around the area this weekend – from outdoor aerial performances to steam locomotives, to the football.

And if you're house hunting, you won't want to miss our Brentford Property of the Week – a three-bed, brand new terraced house.

And we hope everyone had a good Diwali celebration yesterday! And enjoy Bonfire Night tonight if you're celebrating.

Joke of the Day: Did you hear about the two people who stole a calendar?

A. They each got six months.

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