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Email from a resident is Bridle Road.  If anyone saw anything please contact the police, no matter how insignificant you may think.

I write to tell you about a nasty incident that happened at our house on Bridle Road last night.
While my mother was alone at home, three men kicked our (very heavy) door down and burst into our house. My mother was threatened with a screwdriver by one of the men,while the house was ransacked by the other men. Jewellery worn by mother on her wrist was forcibly removed. This was a particularly nasty incident which the police described as “extreme”. The police were here for over three hours, had a scene of crime tape around the house while forensics officers did their work.
Do ask people to be extra vigilant?

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Streamside Horticultural Association Outings 2015
Thursday 28 May. Borde Hill Garden. Haywards Heath, West Sussex. Overlooked by an Elizabethan Tudor mansion, the garden was planted from 1892 when the current owner’s great grandfather sponsored the great Victorian plant hunters. The rhodendrons should be at their finest. The visit includes guided tours of the house and gardens. There is ample catering at The Café Elvira where you can pre-order on arrival (Soup £4.50, sandwiches, main meals) or Jeremy’s Restaurant for a memorable repast (Reservations. 01444441102) Depart from Hut at 9.00am Price £23.50
Wednesday 22 July. Houghton Lodge & Gardens. Stockbridge, Hampshire. These beautiful gardens are majestically overlooked by Houghton Lodge, an 18th Century Grade II listed Gothic Cottage Orné, idyllically set above the tranquil waters of the River Test. There are both formal and informal gardens, a traditional kitchen garden enclosed within chalk cob walls, an orchid house, topiary dragon and peacock garden. The visit includes an introductory talk about the gardens and a tour of the house. Depart from Hut at 9.00am Price £27.50 Catering is very limited. Tea/coffee and home-made cake is available as required. Pay when booking for: 1.00pm Ploughman’s ham, cheese or home-made pork pie with crisps, salad, bread and pickles £9.00 Rhubarb (Picked from kitchen garden) crumble and cream or custard £4.50 3.15pm Cream tea with scones and jam or £4.50 Savoury cream tea with cheese scone, cream cheese and pickle £4.50
Tuesday 8th September RHS Wisley and Flower Show.
Wonderful gardens and features and the opportunity to see and buy the prize offerings of major growers from their stands and displays.
Depart from Hut at 9.30am Price £11.50
Contact: Peter 0208 868 4028

IN CELEBRATION OF NATIONAL STORYTELLING WEEK (sfs.org.uk), a cornucopia of storytelling locally.

WEDNESDAY 4th FEBRUARY 7.30- 9.30
West House, Pinner Memorial Park, West End Lane, Pinner
STORYTELLING FOR GROWN UPs 2,
following the success of the session during Pinner Arts Week.
Join our group of storytellers who will delight you with a story or two and
YOU ARE INVITED TO BRING A SHORT STORY  TO TELL!
£4 (nibbles included) Adults 14+
For Heath Robinson Trust charity at West House

SATURDAY 7th FEBRUARY 2.30 – 3.30 pm
Pinner Library, Marsh Road, Pinner
FAMILY STORYTELLING FOR 4 – 104 years!
Join Pippa and Consuelo and more friends for interactive storytelling and
YOU ARE INVITED TO BRING A SHORT STORY OR POEM TO TELL!
Free event

MONDAY 9th FEBRUARY 7 – 9 pm
Harefield Hospital, Hill End Road, Harefield, Middlesex UB9 6JH
TAFFY THOMAS MBE, STORYTELLER EXTRAORDINAIRE,(taffythomas.co.uk) is coming to HAREFIELD HOSPITAL for an evening of storytelling, along with DEL REID and RACHEL ROSE REID

Free event, donations for Harefield Hospital welcome

There was an appropriate Snow Drop just before before a doughty band of Volunteers embarked on planting out the 1500 snowdrop bulbs donated by the Pinner Association for decorating the Memorial Park.    About half of the bulbs were planted on the morning of Saturday 31 January and the remainder the following day.

Here is the photo of Jackie Lindop about to plant the last of the
snowdrops

Each March Marie Curie holds it Great Daffodil Appeal to raise funds to help care for people with terminal illness all over the UK. This year alone, Marie Curie will provide care for more than 40,000 people across the UK with a terminal illness, and our nurses will care for more than 2,019 people in their own homes in London. In London, we hope to raise over £180,000 this March to provide almost 9,000 hours of care, but we can only do this with local help.  In the Pinner area we are looking for volunteer collectors for the following collections:

1. Tesco Pinner, 1 Ash Hill Drive on Friday 27th February, from 10am – 6pm.  A maximum of 2 collectors per 2 hour shift (10-12, 12-2, 2-4 & 4-6pm)
2. Hatch End Morrisons on Friday 13th March, from 10am – 6pm.  A maximum of 2 collectors per 2 hour shift (10-12, 12-2, 2-4 & 4-6pm)
3. Pinner Street Collection on Saturday 14th March 2015, from 10am – 6pm.  A maximum of 4 collectors per 2 hour shift (10-12, 12-2, 2-4 & 4-6pm)
4. Pinner Sainsbury’s also on Saturday 14th March, from 10am – 6pm.  A maximum of 2 collectors per 2 hour shift (10-12, 12-2, 2-4 & 4-6pm)

If you would like to sign up to collect then please visit www.mariecurie.org.uk/daffodil  or call Jane on 020 7599 7774

Information has been sent from Harrow Police today and this item relates to our area:
Message from Harrow Police on 26^th January 2015:
There is a small emerging issue in Pinner near the borders of Hillingdon where burglars have targeted the rear doors of houses. In one of the burglaries a Blue Vauxhall Insignia was used. The offences are occurring in the early evening so keep your houses lit when it starts to get dark to give the impression someone is in. For more details on how to protect your home visit: http://content.met.police.uk/Site/crimepreventionbumblebee

To those interested in “green and leafy Pinner”:

Anyone who has yet to complete an on-line response to the current Harrow Council consultation on proposed budget and hence service cuts to “Environmental Services” has only two days to do so before the deadline.  We have been told that as this consultation is a “tick box” type the number of individual responses will be added up to give the results of the consultation – therefore your individual responses will carry more weight than a discursive response from the Pinner Association.

The information about the “Environment and Enterprise Savings Proposals” is available here:  http://www.harrow.gov.uk/environmentconsultations

And the on-line survey is here:  https://www.snapsurveys.com/wh/s.asp?k=141874954240

The Association is going to send the Portfolio Holders for the departments involved, and the Leader of Harrow Council, a copy of our responses to the relevant sections of the previous budgets cuts consultation to ensure that they know the Pinner Association’s views on these proposals.

Help us reduce the volume of electrical items being sent to landfill by recycling unwanted items.

Recycling Officers and West London Waste are holding a recycling event for small electrical items on Monday, 12^th January 2015 from 9am to 5pm at the Civic Centre main reception area.

If you have any small unwanted electrical items that you have been wanting to get rid of then stop by and bring along your broken or unwanted electrical waste so the recycling team can get rid of it for you. The electronic and electrical items can be anything from a toaster or hairdryer to a radio, old video recorder or even microwave oven.

The event aims to encourage people to recycle their unwanted electrical items as around 1 million tons of WEEE was sent to landfill last year and it is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the UK.

Fridges and freezers, commercial or industrial items and large items that cannot easily be lifted will not be accepted.   

For further information please contact Codi Shepherd – [email protected]

Help us reduce the volume of electrical items being sent to landfill by recycling unwanted items.

Recycling Officers and West London Waste are holding a recycling event for small electrical items on Monday, 12^th January 2015 from 9am to 5pm at the Civic Centre main reception area.

If you have any small unwanted electrical items that you have been wanting to get rid of then stop by and bring along your broken or unwanted electrical waste so the recycling team can get rid of it for you. The electronic and electrical items can be anything from a toaster or hairdryer to a radio, old video recorder or even microwave oven.

The event aims to encourage people to recycle their unwanted electrical items as around 1 million tons of WEEE was sent to landfill last year and it is one of the fastest growing waste streams in the UK.

Fridges and freezers, commercial or industrial items and large items that cannot easily be lifted will not be accepted.   

For further information please contact Codi Shepherd – [email protected]