October 2010 Archives

MARYLEBONE: Visual effects expert Rick Leary, who has worked on films including Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter, will give a talk about his experiences at Marylebone Library in Marylebone Road, on November 18.

The CGI supervisor will also show what goes into creating illusions on the big screen.
The free discussion begins at 6pm.

For more information, call the library on 020 7641 1300.

NORTH PADDINGTON: Young people are set to take to the stage at a winter show at Paddington Arts, in Woodfield Road, on December 9 and 10.

Tickets for the show, which will include singing and dancing performances, are available on the door for £3 for adults and £2 for under 12s.

Doors open at 6.30pm.

VICTORIA: A selection of new orchestral sets for some of the most popular choral works is now available to hire from Westminster Music Library, in Buckingham Palace Road.

Titles include Vivaldi Gloria, Pergolesi Stabat mater and a series of Bach cantatas.

To reserve a set, call the library on 020 7641 1300 or email musiclibrary@westminster.gov.uk.

A state-of-the art suite for patients at risk of blindness has opened in Marylebone.

The new unit was unveiled at the Western Eye Hospital, in Marylebone Road, by Professor Stephen Smith, the chief executive of Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

A leader has come to the rescue of a St John's Wood scout group who were in desperate need of help.

Started in 1921, the 8th St Marylebone scout group, nicknamed the Diehards, were left without a leader around 15 years ago, forcing them to stop offering scouting.

VICTORIA: Spare a thought for staff at Buckingham Palace this weekend as they will spend hours adjusting more than 500 of Her Majesty's clocks.

They will start work in the early hours of Saturday morning to ensure that the time is set accurately by the end of Sunday, as British Summer Time comes to an end.

Mark Field, MP for Cities of London and Westminster, here discusses the cost of overhauling benefits in his monthly column for the Westminster Chronicle.

No one can accuse the government of paucity of ambition as it seeks to overhaul the paralysingly complicated array of welfare benefits.

While many teenagers use their half term as a chance to relax, one Westbourne Green student had the experience of a lifetime working in Vietnam.

Shaghigh Aryan, a pupil at Westminster Academy, used her school holidays to work as an intern with ORBIS Flying Hospital.

Further tests on the body of an MI6 worker found naked and padlocked inside in a holdall at his home in Pimlico have proved inconclusive.

Gareth Williams, 30, was discovered at his flat in Alderney Street on August 23 by police officers.

An initial post mortem soon after he was found showed no obvious cause of death, and now further tests have come back negative, showing no trace of drugs, alcohol, poisons or other substances which could have led to his death.

Gladiators' star Doom more than met his match when he took on the might of troubled teens from across Westminster.

Wayne Gordon, aka Doom, who is more commonly seen battling it out with hopeful contestants on the Sky 1 programme Gladiators, played games of football with young people at Westminster Academy, in Westbourne Green.