A MAN was spared the heartache of demolishing his sons' bedrooms after councillors overturned a recommendation from their own planning department to knock them down.

ICKENHAM Residents' Association (IRA) has issued a formal plea to extend the proposed HS2 tunnel beyond Ruislip.

The group says it has been caught in a 'catch-22' situation while it waits to find out if a junction for a spur route to Heathrow Airport is to be built on their section of the high-speed line.

ON THEIR wedding day several inches of snow fell in what even the groom admitted was 'lousy' weather - so bad, in fact, they did not even bother with outdoor photographs.

But 60 years later, Denis and Iris Haley could celebrate their anniversary in glorious sunshine.

A FOOTPATH which has been a no-go zone for nearly three years will soon be re-opened after it was officially declared a public right of way.

The pathway between Floriston Avenue and Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon, became centre of a row between residents in 2009 when neighbours, whose properties backed onto it, installed gates to stop people from walking through.

But others in the area claimed they had been using the path as a cut-through for years and elderly residents said it shortened their journey to nearby shops by 15 minutes.

EXTENDING the proposed High Speed Two (HS2) tunnel under Ickenham "could be looked at", according to officials from the firm which will build the line.

In the first of HS2 Ltd's 'community forum' meetings with stakeholders in Ruislip, a route expert also admitted that a spur link to Heathrow "might never happen" and that they "didn't know where it would go".

PROUD great-grandma Hilda Moffatt was 20 days short of her 100th birthday when she died on March 4.

CUSTOMERS of a popular patisserie have demanded Hillingdon Council reverse a decision that would force it to remove a seating area and make two staff redundant.

The owner of Maison du Soleil in Swakeley's Road, Ickenham, is set to appeal against the council's refusal to grant him planning permission for his extended French-style coffee shop.

Ickenham High Road pub The Soldier's Return will call last orders on March 18, as it undergoes a £200,000 makeover - with five part-time bar and kitchen jobs available when it reopens on March 30 as a John Barras pub, fitted with HD TVs, a new bar and furniture and revamped toilets.

A HOMEOWNER has been hit with a £4,500 fine for flouting planning regulations after he put up an extension without permission.

Diarmuid O'Donovan, 49, of Parkfield Road in Ickenham, admitted failing to comply with a planning enforcement notice at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on March 6.

YOUNG biologists at ACS Hillingdon put in plenty of training for the mental athletics of the British Biology Olympiad.

The competition is open to all post-16 students, and because the ACS pupils are studying the International Baccalaureate and the Advanced Programme in Biology, they were in a with a chance of glory and a trip to Singapore this summer for the International Biology Olympiad.