FOUR teenagers were stabbed after a brawl in Hillingdon .

A 17-year-old was in a serious but not life-threatening condition after the fight between two gangs of teenagers in Uxbridge Road near the junction with Lees Road, Hillingdon, on Wednesday, August 20.

At 10.50pm around 10 teenagers boarded a 427 bus near the Civic Centre, Uxbridge, travelling towards Hayes

Shortly after the bus passed RAF Uxbridge another group of teens boarded and an argument broke out.

The groups began fighting after leaving the bus near the Blue Dragon cleaners.

Two teenagers aged 15 and one 16 year-old also suffered stab wounds.

DC Kate McDuff said: "This incident occurred on a busy main road and there must be people who were in the area at the time and have seen the incident. We are very keen to identify anyone involved and are appealing for witnesses who have information that could assist us with our enquires to come forward."

No weapons have been recovered.

Contact DC MCDuff on 0208 246 1447 or call Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

YOUNG people in Hillingdon are being encouraged to try their luck with extreme sports this summer.

Hillingdon Council are putting on a high energy summer programme of activities for 10-14 year-olds.

There will be opportunities to go diving, kayaking and to play mini polo at Highgrove and Hayes pools, and there will be an Olympic Day at Brunel University.

Also available are cheerleading and trampoling classes, and Brazilian soccer schools which will run at different leisure centres and schools in the borough.

Prices range from £2.50 for an Aqua Extreme session and £45 for a week of Brazilian Soccer and QPR football camp.

For more information visit the Leisure and Culture pages on the council website.

Until recently if you lived in Hillingdon and aspired to play football for the town team your choices were limited to travelling to the north of the borough and join a club playing their football in the rural outskirts of Ruislip or consider playing for one of the neighbouring teams Hayes, Yeading or Uxbridge FC...

Well not any more! Hillingdon FC is based in Hillingdon and play their football in Hillingdon.

The club was founded in 1989 as Hillingdon Irish Saints FC by amongst others John Speed and played from the Irish club in Royal Lane Hillingdon. After a few years the decision was taken to drop the word 'Irish' from the clubs name as it gave the perception that you had to be Irish to play for the club.

Hillingdon Saints FC built a reputation as a friendly Youth Football club gradually growing from four to five teams to 12 teams. The club became aware that the players needed an option to continue playing football for the club beyond 16 years of age and Hillingdon Saints FC fielded a senior side for the first time during the 2006/7 season.

The team played its first season in the London Commercial League but elected to apply for entry to the Middlesex 'Cherry Reds' County Football League as this put the club on the bottom tier of the official FA football pyramid and at the same time asked the FA to be allowed to make one final change to the club's name to Hillingdon FC.

The FA accepted that the club had grown to such a size that it now drew players from all over the borough and therefore warranted the name change. Another successful season followed and Hillingdon FC finished runners up in their division and have earnt promotion to the first Division of the Middlesex County League.

As the senior team was rapidly establishing a reputation as a progressive side the club saw the need for a stepping stone between Sunday Youth Football and the rigours of a first team debut so the club applied for entry to, and were accepted into the Southern Counties Floodlit Youth League at U18s initially playing football at the old Vikings ground in Greenford under floodlights on a Wednesday evening.

For the 2008/9 season the team relocating to Uxbridge to play our football at the newly built Hillingdon Stadium in Gatting Way Uxbridge.

One final addition to the club structure has seen us add a reserve team playing in the Middlesex County Reserve Football League. The club now has our own pitches, clubhouse/changing rooms and the facility to take a young player from the first time he laces up his boots until the day he decides to hang them up for good (and hopefully coach the next generation of 'saints').

For more information on the club see www.hillingdonfc.com

These pictures were sent in by Victoria Faulkner and more will appear in next week's Gazette, out on July 23.

Saturday, June 28 saw the culmination of the 50th anniversary celebration of the twinning with the French & German towns of Mantes-la-Jolie and Schleswig respectively.

The Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Hillingdon together with their consorts plus the dignitaries from the two towns all attended a concert given by the Hillingdon Philharmonic Orchestra in All Saints Church, Long Lane Hillingdon.

For Peter Williams, the conductor, this marked a happy return as he has previously taken the Hillingdon Choral Society on foreign tours including Mantes-la Jolie and also conducted a combined choir from Hillingdon, Mantes & Schleswig for a performance at Uxbridge College.

The 'Pastoral Concert' featured German & French works including Beethoven Symphony No6 (Pastoral) and Chabrier Suite Pastorale. The Mozart Clarinet Concerto in A was performed exquisitely by Katie Lockhart, a former wind finalist in the BBC Young Musician of the Year Competition 2000

The concert was given a rousing finale with the European anthem 'Ode to Joy' from Beethoven's 9th Symphony sung by the assembled audience, first in German, then French & finally English (perhaps a metaphor for our respective national footballing prowess!)."

Katie & Peter Williams

Hillingdon Youth FC Under 11's

The 2007/8 season has finished and seven- a-side football is now a thing of the past for this team.

We look forward to the 2008/9 season starting in September and the step up to 11 a-side football.
The task was quite daunting for the team and for our first friendly 11 a-side match we played another local team also taking that same leap. The lads looked lost on such a large pitch as it was full size but with little coaching and only 10 players they played well and were only just beaten 4-3.

As we approach the summer and a well deserved rest for all, we have a few training sessions left but we really do need four or five new players to join us for the new season. Training is held every Wednesday at our Gainsborough Road, Hayes, training ground from 5.45 to 7pm.

We want any year five children would like to join a good local football club to come along to training or for further information please visit www.hillingdonsaintsfc.com and look at the Under 11's page for further details.

These pictures were sent in by Lewis Richardson.

Hillingdon Borough Football Club manager Steve Ringrose has quit the club just six weeks before the start of the new season.

Ringrose, who over the last six years has steered the club to its most successful period since it reformed in 1990, cited a lack of harmony between its owner and directors as the reason for his shock exit.

His assistant Boysie Wise has also quit and Ringrose expects almost all the team to follow them out of the Middlesex Stadium.

In a club statement Ringrose said: " There is clearly a difference in direction at present between the club's owners and the directors which I believe is to the detriment of the football club.

" With the very tight financial limitations which we have previously worked under, these have now been even further compounded and I firmly believe that this in particular would make this job very difficult, if not impossible, to carry out this coming season."

Ringrose added: " I think there's a difference in opinion in what a football club is and the direction it should be going in.

" It certainly has resulted in a massive lack of harmony there and it's really forced the issue."

Hillingdon Philharmonic Orchestra's 23rd season of music continues with the Pastoral Summer Concert on Saturday, June 28 at All Saints Church, Ryefield Avenue, Hillingdon, at 7.30pm.

Under the leadership of Hilary Holloway and conducted by Peter Williams the programme includes works by Mozart and Beethoven.

Ticket details on 01628 778044 or visit www.hillingdonphil.ik.com

A MAGICAL day was enjoyed by more than 300 five-seven-year-old girls who were celebrating the 21st anniversary of Rainbows on Sunday.