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New jobs are to be created as Chiswick's Volkswagen dealership moves to new larger premises.

After 40 successful years based on Kings Street, the car retailer has relocated to a new site at Gillette Corner in Great West Road, following a £400,000 revamp.

A woman died in a Chiswick house fire which blazed all through Friday night.

Around 30 fire fighters and six fire engines were called to a house on Esmond Road, Chiswick at 11.44pm, where they found the 42-year-old woman unconscious on the ground floor.

MURDER squad police have launched an investigation into who is responsible for the death of the baby boy killed by a falling lamp-post.

A Police spokeswoman today announced that a joint investigation is under way by officers from the homicide and serious crime command, Hounslow CID and the Health and Safety Executive.

Thebaby boy who was hit by a toppling lamp-post in Chiswick yesterday remains in a "critical but stable condition".

The one-year-old is receiving treatment at Royal College Hospital after he was crushed by a lampost outside Chiswick Town Hall yesterday.

Part of Hammersmith severely flooded this morning forcing a small number of people to be evacuated from their homes after a water main burst.

Polcie were alerted to the situation on the junction of Stamford brook Road and Goldhawk Road at 4am this morning.

A Chiswick gardener has raised £85,0000 for charity after completing a gruelling trek along the Inca Trail.

Philip Cole,48, took four days to make the tretorous 26-mile journey to Machu Picchu and will be giving the cash he raised to Dogs for the Disabled.

CHISWICK Park will be setting up the first ever Guinness World Record Recycling Relay event as part of a afternoon of recycling initiatives on Friday, September 4.

Office workers will be registering to compete in teams of two to become Guinness World Record holders. Over the course of two hours, teams will complete at recycling the same bag of recyclable items such as plastics, paper and metal.

A Guinness World Record adjudicator will record each team's time taken to recycle the materials and the winner will be presented with their very own Guinness World Record.

In keeping with the recycling-themed event, Chiswick Park Enjoy-Work has also joined up with retailer Tesco as part of its nationwide initiative for recycling coat-hangers. Special collection bins have been introduced across Tesco stores in the UK to encourage customers to recycle them in order that they be re-used to recycled.

To promote this campaign, a giant art installation made entirely of recycled coat-hangers will be on display at Chiswick Park and guests will be helping to build this installation which has been commissioned by an environmental artist.

The day is the latest in Chiswick Park's on-going weekly summer events programme, which aims to encourage team spirit, motivation and enjoyment in the workplace among individuals and companies.

Each event is accompanied by live music and a barbecue to give each activity a carnival atmosphere and round the working week off in style.

The funeral of Chiswick priest Father Edward Houghton is to take place tomorrow.

A ceremony for Fr Edward who was fatally injured in a road accident in North Yorkshire on August 21, will be held at Church of Our Lady of Grace and St Edward in Chiswick at 7pm, followed by Mass at which Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor will be the main celebrant.

OFFICE workers at Chiswick Park enjoyed lunch with a difference on Friday, August 21 forsaking the customary 'sandwich at the desk' for a chance to face their fears and explore their limits.

Guests at Chiswick Park were given an opportunity to tackle their most prevalent phobias including fear of heights, speaking, confined spaces, snakes, and spiders.

A woman who was dramatically rescued from the Thames by Chiswick Lifeboat crew has died.

Last week the Chronicle reported how RNLI crew and ambulance staff managed to give the woman lifesaving CPR after a rower found her body floating in the river near Hammersmith, at 5pm last Monday.