August 2012 Archives

A traditional Chinese firm which sold herbal remedies containing endangered plants has been fined more than £20,000.

Beiking Tong Ren Tank UK Ltd, which has a high street shop in Westminster and a warehouse in Brent, admitted two charges of transporting for sale and five charges of keeping for sale traditional Chinese medicines suspected of containing ingredients from endangered plants.

WESTMINSTER Academy International Baccalaureate Diploma students scored above the world average in their final examinations.

100% of grades achieved were grade A* or A and the academy topped the league table for sixth form examination performance in Westminster in 2011 and could do so again in 2012.

HUNDREDS of Westminster Kingsway College learners have received their A-Level and BTEC results.

Many will be progressing to top-rated universities and the college provided advice stations where careers advisors were available to guide them through the clearing process if needed and help them take the next step.

Sixth Formers at Paddington Academy are celebrating after receiving their A Level results and being accepted at top universities across the country.

Students have gained places at universities including UCL, Kings College, London, Durham, Birmingham and Warwick. They will be studying subjects including medicine, law and science.

BRITAIN'S huge gold medal haul in the Olympics has sparked a surge in sporting interest in Westminster.

Membership of leisure centres across the borough is up 14 per cent this year, and bookings have risen 17 per cent as a result of the Games.

INSPIRED by our gold medal winning cyclists, not least Maida Vale hero Bradley Wiggins, plenty of Londoners are getting on their bikes.

To mark its 150th anniversary, Peabody housing organisation has set up a new cycle tour of its estates around Westminster.

THOUSANDS of fake Olympic goods worth more than £10,000 have been seized by Trading Standards teams in west London since the start of the Games.

Mobile teams are working around the clock to stop tourists and day-trippers from being conned into buying shoddy fakes in Central London.

A Noise enforcement officer had a lucky escape after being chased from the door of a party by a naked knife-wielding man, drunk on two litres of spirits.

Westminster Council employee Ken Agnew had called at the flat of Terence Hurley at about 7.30am on Sunday May 13, following two noise complaints from neighbours 45 minutes earlier.

Hurley, who had drunk two litres of the powerful Greek spirit ouzo the night before, answered the door of his home, in Gainsborough House, Erasmus Street, Westminster, stark naked, became abusive about his neighbours, and swung a punch at the officer.

Thousands of fake Olympic goods worth more than £10,000 have been seized by Westminster trading standards teams since the start of the Games.

Mobile teams are working around the clock to stop tourists and day-trippers from being conned into buying shoddy fakes in Central London.

Paddington is enjoying a 'renaissance as a major commercial site' according to Crossrail, which has just submitted redevelopment plans for the land around its new station.

The site, at the junction of Bishop's Bridge Road and the Grand Union Canal, could see a 320,000sq ft development, with 15 storeys of office space above shops and a main entrance.

Plans have been sent in to Westminster Council, and also incorporate access to Crossrail, National Rail and Hammersmith and City line services at Paddington.