The Royal Albert Hall stage will be frozen over for just the second time in history when Cinderella on Ice comes to the theatre later this month.

The Imperial Ice Stars production, which stars Dancing on Ice's Olga Sharutenko, is the first sub-zero show to come to the arena since John Curry Symphony on Ice 25 years ago.

An introduction for youngsters to wildlife gardening is being held at the Chelsea Physic Garden in Royal Hospital Road on Tuesday February 16.

The event, which is open from 10.30am to 2.30pm, will allow children over seven to explore garden habitats and discover inventive ways to make homes and feeders for a variety of garden creatures. For more information call 020 7352 5646.

Kensington and Chelsea Council has admitted it will never be able to clear its housing list due to a shortage of properties in the borough.

Critics have said the council is 'sleepwalking into a housing timebomb' and, with housing budgets expected to be halved by 2011, both the cost of buying a home and the length of social housing waiting lists are likely to double again in the next ten years.

Buskers at South Kensington tube station raised £544 for the Disaster Emergency Committee's Haiti appeal on Monday.

Musicians including a keyboard player and a harpist braved the weather to play one hour slots as part of the Busk4Haiti event organised by Transport for London.

To make a donation to the appeal visit www.dec.org.uk.

Notting Hill is to become the focus of a real-life soap opera lined up by Channel 4 to replace Big Brother.

Ten local residents will be followed all week by cameras for two months and thousands of passers-by could end up featuring in the weekly series.

Channel 4 bosses hope the new take on a reality show will be as popular as the early series of Big Brother, which came to an end after 21 series last month.

Up to 1,600 households have been threatened with having their TV signal cut off in apparent sabre-rattling between Kensington and Chelsea Council and Virgin Media.

A message appeared on TV screens in Kensington and Chelsea TMO-managed properties across the borough last Friday warning that the analogue signal would be turned off on Monday.

Figures that show childhood obesity is 'unacceptably high' in Kensington and Chelsea have been withdrawn after claims they were incorrect.

The figures, which showed that a third of 10-11-year-olds in some schools are obese, were due to be discussed by the council's health scrutiny committee last week.

It is not known whether the figures had overestimated or underestimated the scale of the problem but a council spokesman said they would be revised and put forward to the committee in the coming weeks.

Portobello market is dying a slow death at the hands of chain stores, according to traders who have peddled their wares on the street for years.

More than 5,000 people have backed a campaign to save the market from the growing proliferation of high street 'clone stores' such as All Saints, which opened last month leaving more than 150 traders without a home.

A scheme is being piloted in Kensington and Chelsea to create social work apprenticeships.

Kensington and Chelsea Council won a £200,000 grant to fund 35 apprenticeships in the council and its partners Chelsea Care, Care UK and Plan Personnel.

A recruitment event for the scheme will be held at the Small Hall in Horton Street on Wednesday February 24 between 1pm and 5pm.

A firefighter has been recognised for 30 years service based at North Kensington Fire Station.

Sean McCauley joined the London Fire Brigade in 1979 and has attended many of the capital's biggest fires, including the Alexandra Palace fire in 1980.