Ken Livingstone has pledged to adopt suburban rail stations including lines running through Greenford and Northolt into the Tube network, if elected London mayor.

Labour's candidate, who will go head to head against Conservative Boris Johnson at the polls in May, said the move to bring 271 outer London rail stations under the mayor's control could halt fare rises.

Protestors fighting against the high speed rail have demanded transport chiefs to extend the tunnel through the borough and save them from years of misery.

Ealing residents say it is unjust that they will be exposed to noise and pollution from the 225mph trains, when the HS2 route from London to Birmingham is tunnelled on either side of the borough boundaries.

Counselling might often be seen as something reserved for troubled teens or those enduring mid-life breakdowns, but a children's charity is working hard to reach youngsters who would otherwise suffer in silence.

The Place2Be trains and supports 47 volunteer counsellors working in 10 primary schools in Greenford and Northolt.

Disgusted residents are calling on shopping giant Tesco to stop flytippers dumping waste and creating a filthy eye sore along a residential street.

Junk including unwanted furniture, mattresses, car tyres, rubble and wooden planks are routinely dumped in a boarded up area located at the back of the Tesco Hoover Building, in Bideford Avenue, Perivale.

Police have found the school girl missing from Northolt since last week.

Muna Sharif, 13, was reported missing from her home in Northolt on Thursday (19). She was found today and returned to her family.

by James Cracknell via Uxbridge Gazette

Startled residents living near RAF Northolt feared 'the country had gone to war' when they heard the thunderous noise of Eurofighter Typhoon jets flying overhead on Saturday.

The supersonic aircraft did not land at the base but flew directly over the borough in preparation for when they will be based here during the London 2012 Olympic Games.

A poetry week inspired youngsters at a primary school to pick up their pens and find their inner Wordsworths.

Children of all ages at Ravenor Primary School, Northolt, took part in a literacy quest to find the best poets in the school and get 2012 off to a rhyming start this month.

A derelict cinema and snooker club could be transformed into 40 flats, helping to boost business for a parade of shops.

The old Odeon cinema, in residential Sudbury Heights Avenue, North Greenford, has been empty since 2006 when the snooker club on the first floor closed.

Six adults and three children were rushed to hospital after a carbon monoxide leak in a block of flats.

The London Fire Brigade were called to Taywood Road, in the Grand Union Village, Northolt, at about 8.30am on Thursday (19). Firefighters evacuated and ventilated the building by 10.30am.

Uncertainty in the NHS is the reason Ealing Council decided to abandon plans to turn a disused health centre into a gym and doctor's surgery.

The authority announced an interest in July last year to reopen the former Boots Wellbeing Centre, in Westway Cross shopping centre, Greenford.