News in Brentford

Hounslow Council has launched a new British Sign Language (BSL) service to make accessing council services easier for residents who are deaf and hard of hearing.

Working with SignLive, the Council will pilot an online BSL interpretation service that residents can use to contact the council via telephone, attend meetings via video conferencing platforms such as Zoom or communicate face-to-face when Covid restrictions allow.

After the tragic ending to the story of the minke whale trapped in the Thames, the RNLI reflect on the whale's story.

Here Paul Stallard, Teddington RNLI Lifeboat Press Officer and Crew, tells the story from the perspective of the rescue crews who spent (in total) 36 hours trying to assist the whale:

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A virtual duck race is to take place to raise money for a centre that provides free support for people with cancer in west London.

The great Maggie's Centres duck race offers participants the chance to customise and name their duck who will then be entered into our virtual race with the chance to win some "quacking prizes".

The Pfizer vaccine is being offered to patients in west London as younger age groups get offered the Covid jab.

So far the mass vaccination centres in north west London have been offering the AstraZeneca vaccine developed at Oxford University.

A man is in hospital with potentially life-changing injuries after being assaulted in Chiswick last Friday evening (7 May).

The emergency services found the 21-year-old with significant injuries to his legs and arms after being called to Church Path, near South Acton train station, at 10.16pm.

A new cheese market is coming to Chiswick this weekend.

More than 90 different cheeses will be on sale as well as chutney, crackers, cheeseboards and other cheese-related items.

A campaign has been launched by Hounslow Council to recruit foster carers across the borough to mark Foster Care Fortnight.

Everyday there are around 65,000 children in the UK living with 55,000 foster families and every 20 minutes another child comes into care needing a foster family, according to the Fostering Network.

A tree that has been deemed dangerous will only be felled when a family of birds has moved on.

The tree, on the waterside at Brentford Dock, is leaning precariously towards the river and looks like it could topple over.

Planning chiefs say a major development behind Kew Bridge station should not be given approval.

The development, called The Kew Bridge Station Quarter, includes 45 flats and a nine-storey tower block in a storage yard behind the Express Tavern pub.