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 nice day today, on Tuesday 2 November. And a great ongoing week.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, as firefighters were called in the early hours of the morning to a flat fire, believed to be caused by a firework, on Lampton Road, Hounslow.

Today's weather: Highs of 11 degrees and lows of 4 degrees, a largely bright, clear and still day today, according to the met office, with wind gusts between 13 – 4 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.

The world's temperature has reached an average exceeding 1.0 °C above pre-industrial levels for the past two decades: the first time that a 20-year period has reached this threshold since records began in 1850.

Traffic: According to the AA as of 7:30am, Delays of three minutes on M4 Eastbound between M4 (Heston Services) and J2 A4 Great West Road (Brentford). Average speed 15 mph.

Todays Sunrise: 6:56 am

Todays Sunset: 4:32 pm

Todays Moonrise: 3:31 am

Todays Moonset: 3:54 apm

Brentford Lock High Tide: 12:20 pm

Brentford Lock Low Tide: 8:08 am and 8:45 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: This week is the COP26 aka the United Nations Climate Change Conference UK 2021 in Glasgow, as Brentford's air quality champions mark the start of COP26 with a call to action and a round-up of what has been done for improving green spaces in Brentford.

Top point from yesterday, India prime minister Narendra Modi announced that India will meet a target of net zero by 2070.

Joke of the Day: What do you call a parade of rabbits hopping backwards?

A. A receding hare-line.

Looking for a business or community group in Brentford? Check out our local listings page .

You can follow us on FACEBOOK and TWITTER

Have you signed up for our weekly newsletter yet? Sign up  HERE  for the top Brentford stories in your inbox each Friday!