Local Authority

Chiswick High Road is one of London's top five most ticketed streets - with 18,688 being handed out in the last 12 months.

The mile long road was named third most lucrative in the capital for parking fines and traffic penalties in an investigation by The Standard .

Christmas lights in Chiswick will shine proudly once again this year thanks to Fuller's Brewery.

Residents, including Children from St Mary's School in Dukes Road, Chiswick, will gather to see the lights being switched on outside the George IV pub in Chiswick High Road on Thursday November 27 at 6.30pm.

Major road works on the North side of Kew Bridge due to gas repairs signal traffic chaos.

Gas company Transco will begin undertaking works to repair a gas leak on the North Side of Kew Bridge on Monday November 17 from 10am.

A 23-year-old Chiswick cancer survivor received a standing ovation at the Manchester Labour Conference after telling how the NHS saved his life.

Angry Chiswick neighbours have successfully fought the council into submission after being penalised for parking outside their own homes.

Those living in Harvard Road were fed up of waking to find parking tickets slapped on their windscreens, simply for parking just outside the white lines. All complained they had done so because high kerbs prevented them from getting in and out of their cars.

Turnham Green's new traffic scheme is to be changed following opposition to the plans.

Although the initial plans received a lot of support in May/June there was also significant opposition, meaning the Council is now considering undertaking a different scheme, which they claim is a simpler and cheaper design, that could be implemented more quickly.

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Older people living in a Chiswick Care Home have benefited from a range of improvements thanks to receiving a chunk of a £175,000 grant.

The department of Health grant was split across 16 care homes, with each home receiving a cut relative to how many residents lived there. They included Maryville Care Home in Brentford and St Mary's Convent and Nursing Home in Chiswick.

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The pavement is his stage, his shadow his teacher and Chiswick shoppers his audience as Ziggy Dust struts his stuff.

Spinning, sliding, sauntering and sweeping, he daily has strangers stopped in their tracks and has gathered an online fan club.

It seems the credit crunch is having an effect on the criminal underworld as hard-up thieves resort to stealing bins.

In Chiswick six bins have been dismantled so far and their frames stolen, with cunning crooks telling curious residents they worked for the council.

The home of one of Britain's most famous painters and satirists is to get a new lease of life thanks to Lottery funding.

A rare manuscript written by celebrated William Hogarth, never before on public display, will be the star attraction of the artist's restored Chiswick home, a Grade 1 listed building owned by Hounslow Council.