Health

A specialist doctor will lead a free dementia awareness evening at Greenford Library this week.

Carers and sufferers can learn about the signs, symptoms and available treatments for the disease from guest speaker Dr Sujoy Mukherjee on Friday from 5-7pm.

A man with spina bifida is facing transport costs of £80 a day to reach important appointments after his free hospital travel was scrapped.

Jamie Brown was diagnosed with the spinal defect at birth and began using a wheelchair at three years old.

A budding writer who came top in a competition to teach youngsters to eat like a champ had the chance to meet dance champions Diversity.

Ten-year-old Afrin Islam of Stanhope Primary School, Greenford, beat 1,500 pupils up and down the country with her essay on healthy eating.

Residents can find out more about diabetes, how it is treated and what support is available at an awareness afternoon.

GPs from Hillview Surgery have teamed up with the North West London Diabetes Local Research Network to hold the event at Perivale Community Centre in Horsenden Lane South on Saturday (19), from 1-4pm.

Thames Water has employed teams to flush out a polluted stream in one of Greenford's biggest parklands which has been contaminated by petrol and cooking oil.

The water company is helping the Environment Agency and Ealing Council clear up the poisoned brook in Horsenden Hill after the problem was identified late
last month.

A developer has been ordered to replace hundreds of gas flues on a new housing estate after nine people were poisoned by a dangerous carbon monoxide leak.

Three compassionate sisters have set up a charity to help Muslim mothers escape domestic violence and find vital parenting support.

Last year, Faiza Zaman, Munaza Zaman and younger sibling Uzma Malik established United Ummah, which means 'bringing the community together'.

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.

Chocolate and Easter go hand in hand but two overweight friends have vowed to steer clear of the sweet stuff and shed the pounds before the tempting date - while raising cash for Help for Heroes.

Perivale pair Chris Sharp and Trevor Knight, who weigh 16st 8lb and 19st respectively, both made a new year's resolution last week to lose 2st by Easter Sunday, April 8.