December 2009 Archives

A personal trainer from North Kensington is set to appear on a TV gameshow on Christmas Day.

On December 25, Sarah Colbourne, 37, of Shrewsbury Street, will try to win up to £1,000,000 on the channel 5 show Heads or Tails.

Free Christmas tree recycling is on offer to residents of the Royal Borough this year.

Between 4 and 17 January, residents can recycle their Christmas trees by leaving them on pavement, next to the kerb, but only on their designated collection day.

Colleagues have paid tribute to a long-serving housing organisation board member who was found dead on a Chelsea estate.

Michael Beverley, 50, was discovered at the foot of the Dartrey Tower, on the World's End Estate, on December 11.

Fake paintings and artworks by notorious art forgers are to go on display at a South Kensington museum.

In a UK first, members of the public can view a collection of police investigations into fraudulent art works by Shaun Greenhalgh, at the Victoria and Albert Museum's Studio Gallery, in Exhibition Road.

Firefighters tackled a blaze above a Kensington restaurant in the early hours of this morning.

The fire, which broke out in the kitchen of the restaurant in Palace Gardens Terrace, damaged a small part of the ground floor.

Chef Rick Stein and cricketer Henry Olonga were among the special guests at a charity carol service at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea last Thursday.

Both gave readings, along with Radio 4 presenter Sue MacGregor and songwriter Richard Stilgoe, at the event in aid of Sparrow Schools - a charity which provides education for disadvantaged children in South Africa.

Six Chelsea pensioners were in the 400-strong crowd at the chapel in Royal Hospital Road for a service of carols, readings and prayers.

To find out more about Sparrow Schools visit www.sparrowschools.org.uk.

Boris Johnson visited North Kensington on Dec 3 to hear Kensington and Chelsea Council's case for a new Crossrail station.

The Council is putting its full weight behind proposals for a Crossrail station as thousands of new homes and jobs will be created in a deprived part of North Kensington if plans get the green light.