June 2011 Archives

A centre which offers free legal advice to people in north Westminster is facing closure unless more funding can be found.

Staff at the Paddington Law Centre, in Harrow Road, have provided advice and legal representation on housing, employment, welfare benefits and immigration since 1973.

Around £50,000 is needed to keep it open until the end of the year.

Staff from a Paddington hotel went the extra mile to raise money for charity.

Employees of the Hilton London Metropole, in Edgware Road, were challenged to cover the furthest distance possible by cycling, running, walking and taking part in a five-a-side football tournament.

London's first dedicated centre for gay visitors is hunting for funds to get back up and running in Soho.

The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Tourist Office was the first of its kind when it opened in Frith Street in October 2009.

A coroner has raised concerns about the investigation of faulty electrical fittings after a light sparked a fire, leading to the deaths of two children.

Five-year-old Farah Rashid was overcome with smoke as a blaze ripped through a third-floor flat in Cunningham Place, St John's Wood, in the early hours of December 17, 2009.

More than 20 schools in Westminster have confirmed they will close tomorrow for a day of protest against plans to cut teacher pensions.

A total of 24 are expected to close, while a further 13 should be partially open.

The borough's remaining 15 schools will be completely open.

Young people had the chance to try out an Olympic course just a year before world-class athletes will be competing.

Students from City of Westminster College, which has campuses across the north of Westminster, experienced a taste of London 2012 at Lee Valley White Water Centre's fast-flowing rapids.

A North Paddington day centre for deaf and disabled people could reopen as a specialist dementia centre.

Westminster Council has launched a public consultation over whether to close the Westminster Centre for Independent Living (WCIL) in Westbourne Park Road, and replace it with a dementia resource centre.

LISSON GROVE: Two months since four members of the Ding family were stabbed to death at their home in Wootton, Northampton, police have made a further appeal for information.

Jeff and Helen Ding, and their daughters Alice and Xing were murdered on April 29.

A 'worst case scenario' would see one in six children having to move out of Westminster because of housing benefit cuts, a report has warned.

Government plans to cut local housing allowance could have a devastating impact on 4,000 of the borough's children, according to the Westminster Council report.

A man was chased home by three men and stabbed several times as he tried to open his front door.

The victim, a 49-year-old man, was attacked as he walked down Kilburn Lane, in Queen's Park, at around 2.15am on Sunday morning.

He heard one of them shout, then all three ran towards him.