Conal Urquhart

A former reporter from the Balkans and the Middle East now investigating the wild lands of west London

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No Romanians or Albanians but private dancers welcome

Ealing Council has been asked to grant a licence to a new West Ealing nightclub where dancers could earn £500 per week

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Ealing to close its housing companies with £15 million in negative equity

The council waited until after the election to propose the closure of Broadway Living companies

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Falling birth rates put pressure on Ealing primary schools

Fewer children are being enrolled in primary school and pupil numbers are falling and the long term consequences for society are alarming

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New Southall data centre gets public endorsement

Majority of public comments support the redevelopment of the former Honey Monster factory while the rest raise concerns about traffic and environment

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Ealing awarded £1.5 million for West London Regional Park

The park will link Horsenden Hill to Brentford Lock and include Pitshanger Park, Warren Farm, Osterley Park and Syon Park

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New data centre approved in Park Royal

As final work continues on Microsoft and Vantage hyperscale data centres, planners approve £1 billion centre in Park Royal's Premier Park

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Labour hold Ealing as Reform fail to make impact

Labour lost ten seats, with the Lib Dems and Greens gaining five and Conservatives and Independents gaining one

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Asda proposes 1,500 homes in heart of Park Royal industrial estate

The homes would be surrounded by industrial and commercial units but close to the Central Middlesex Hospital and the new Old Oak Station

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Imperial College ditches homes for student rooms in Acton development

The college has asked Ealing to alter its original planning approval which included 413 rental homes but will be switched to 1,350 student bedrooms

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World's best selling author and world's most prolific writer among highlights of Ealing's literary scene

A tour of Ealing reveals that many literary giants, and at least two foreign head of state, made Ealing their home

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Cut small business taxes to save the high street, says Mary Portas

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Arrested for murder, forced into marriage at 13: One MP's journey to Westminster

Naz Shah has endured poverty and abuse but her ambition is to improve the lives of her constituents, she tells the Ealing Book Festival

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'Ealing was like Mars, a different planet’

The author Jung Chang tells the Ealing Book Festival that Ealing was a window on the West for Chinese students allowed to study abroad for the first time

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Crimes rises in Ealing with big jumps in drug and sexual offences

The overall rise hides significant reductions in personal robbery, knife crime with injury and burglary

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Shopping, rocking and Donald Trump-mocking

Renowned international writers focus on West London for the Ealing Book Festival which starts next week

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New pubs in Ealing, Acton and Brentford bucking closure trend

We're so used to pubs closing that it's shock to find them opening

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'You can take the man out of Ealing but you can't take Ealing out of the man’

A video reveals how Jamiroquai's Jay Kay spent his formative years in Ealing

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Ealing weighs division of household recycling

Documents show that the council has laid the ground to introduce separate bins for paper and cardboard

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Protests mount at GSK development plans

Historic England and Kew Gardens object to the height of seven towers on the GSK site which will damage local sites. One proposed tower is 110 metres

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Companies warn of noise and smell risk to residents of new GSK development

The developer of the GSK site has not paid enough attention to the effect their operations might have on the proposed community

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