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Animal Welfare Column: Family took in stray cat and got kittens!

Their mum was a stray living on the A40 getting what food she could from people’s houses.Read

Animal Welfare Column: Can Felix find somebody to love?

I’ve just heard a beautiful live acapella rendition of Queen’s “Can anybody find me somebody to love”.Read

Constituency Matters - With councillors and MPs

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Angie Bray MP: Three good reasons to cheer the Queen's Speech

Angie Bray, Conservative MP for Ealing Central & Acton, pens this week's Constituency Matters political column.Read

Cllr Gary Malcolm: Lib Dems in government are helping Ealing families

This week's Constituency Matters comes from Councillor Gary Malcolm, leader of the Ealing Liberal Democrats.Read

NOTE TO SELF - with TV's Rachel Agnew

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NOTE TO SELF: Never forget your ancestors

Unfortunately yesterday I had to go to a funeral. My Great Aunt had died and many of my close and extended family and I gathered at an old cemetery in Willesden to pay our respects and celebrate the life of a very spirited 95 year old lady. The funeral itself was lovely, full of emotional and amusing anecdotes of a real character, someone who lived their life to the full until ill-health hit only a couple of years ago.Read

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NOTE TO SELF: Keep calm and turn it down.

It was interesting to read the different reactions to the story of Dame Helen Mirren unleashing a barrage of four letter abuse at a large drumming band which was playing outside the theatre in which she was performing.Read

Urban Fox

Urban Fox

Urban Fox: Tree blossom provides a sense of wonder

After a long wait for the arrival of spring I find an added of a sense of wonder at the blossom on the trees and proliferation brought with a rise in temperatures and brighter days.Read

Urban Fox: Rhubarb brings a blaze of colour to the allotment

The allotment has seen little change over the past few weeks with the exception of the rhubarb, which is now beginning to bring a small blaze of colour against a still wintry backdrop with its red new shoots.Read

Transport Watch

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Transport Watch: The mayor is pressed for answers

THE Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, was on good form when he addressed a packed Greenford Hall last month on transport issues in the capital.Read

Transport Watch: Latest round of new year fare increases

* As always the transport industry has welcomed the new year with a round of fare increases and, as usual, this has led to cries of 'unfair' and 'unjust.Read