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We hope you have a great day today, on Wednesday 8 December.

Click here for our top story from yesterday, about the eleven-year-old boy Sam who cut his lockdown hair for charity, helping raise over £2,000 for local food banks.

Today's weather: Highs of 7 degrees and lows of 4 degrees, clear changing to cloudy by lunchtime, according to the Met Office, with wind gusts between 25 – 31 mph.

Met Office news: A deep area of low-pressure moving in from the Atlantic on Tuesday, 7 December has been named as Storm Barra by Met Éireann for the level of impacts expected for the Republic of Ireland.

Traffic: As of 8am, according to AA Traffic, queueing traffic on M4 into town before J2 / A4 (Brentford). Where three lanes drop to two, a mile before J2.

Delays of nine minutes and delays easing on M4 Eastbound between M4 (Heston Services) and J2 A4 Great West Road (Brentford). Average speed ten mph.

Delays of three minutes and delays easing on A205 Kew Bridge Road Westbound between Kent Road and Kew Bridge Court. Average speed five mph.

Temporary traffic signals due to telecoms work on A315 High Street at B455 Ealing Road. Today's Sunrise: 7:52 am

Today's Sunset: 3:53 pm

Today's Moonrise: 10:00 am

Today's Moonset: 10:26 pm Brentford Lock High Tide: 5:09 am and 5:35 pm

Brentford Lock Low Tide: 1:05 am and 1:40 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: Brentford FC manager, Thomas Frank discussing the football teams pre-Christmas strategy ahead of a heavy run of fixtures. Joke of the Day: Why can't you explain puns to kleptomaniacs? A. They always take things literally.

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