Transport

HS2 Limited's announcement for tunnelling underneath the whole borough today is a huge victory for Ealing.

The decision follows months of campaigning and lobbying against original plans that could have seen hundreds of homes and businesses demolished to make way for the multi-billion high speed rail line between London and Birmingham.

There are delays northbound on Church Road in Northolt between the White Hart Roundabout and the Bengarth Road junction due to an accident.

The London Ambulance Service were called to Church Road at 3.15 pm.

A 72-year-old man was being treated for back pain and taken to Ealing Hospital as a priority.

All lanes have been re-opened.

Campaigners fighting against HS2 took their plight to the Houses of Parliament as MPs stalled a decision on compensation plans.

Members of North Ealing Against HS2 braved the rain on Monday afternoon (16) to join 300 protestors affected up and down the London to Birmingham route.

Young people with learning difficulties had a taste of independent life when they learned about safe travel.

Ealing Mencap staged a bus day in Greenford Broadway earlier this month to give 10- to 15-year-olds the opportunity to get out and about on their own - and for most for the very first time.

Campaigners fighting against HS2 were relieved to learn a proposed link to Heathrow has been relocated from Northolt.

A junction to connect the capital's hub airport to the new high speed rail tracks from London to Birmingham was intended to be built near Northolt Tube station and metres from Willow Tree Primary School.

A new zebra crossing has delighted parents, pupils and staff who are now able to walk to their school in safety.

The Parents' Support Group at St John Fisher School in Sarsfield Road, Perivale, worked with Ealing Council for about four years to have the crossing put in.

Transport bosses are reviewing plans to make a speed limit on a busy road clearer to make motorists slow down.

Neighbours campaigned for years for the new 30mph limit in Church Road, Northolt between the Target and White Hart roundabouts. It was dropped from 40mph last year after a spate of serious accidents, some fatal.

A motorcyclist was airlifted to hospital after a collision with a lorry on Greenford Roundabout earlier today.

Ambulance crews and an air ambulance landed in Greenford Road after the crash at 9.45am where the bike was found crushed beneath the front of the lorry.

The Gazette invites Perivale resident and chairman of North Ealing Against HS2, Alex Nieora, to talk about the high speed rail line and why he thinks it should be tunnelled under the borough.

The £32billion project will connect London to Birmingham and the north, affecting households in Northolt, Greenford, Perivale, Hanger Lane and North Acton. The present proposals see the line tunnelled from Euston to Old Oak Common and from Northolt to West Ruislip - excluding Ealing.

A wheelchair-bound woman says she has endured months of neglect and verbal abuse from bus drivers unwilling to help her aboard.

Grace Andrews has 'consistently' encountered rude drivers on her regular bus route 92 from Northolt to Ealing Hospital in the past 18 months, and where she used to live before in Chiswick.