REVISED plans for a 'mini village' on the site of the Hayes and Yeading football ground have been announced.

The latest proposals for the land of the 6,500-seater ground, in Church Road, Hayes, are for 185 one to five-bedroom houses, signalling the potential arrival of some 450 new residents. Thirty five per cent of the homes have been allocated as affordable housing for families.

Earlier proposals put forward in November 2008, for 282 houses, were met with criticism from the council and residents, and developers Barratt Homes promptly revisited the scheme.

AN 18 year-old who took part in a late-night street robbery has been sent to a young offenders institution.

Abdi Sheik, of Tudor Road, Hayes, was given a ten-month detention and training order for the robbery on two young teens that took place in Uxbridge Road, Uxbridge, in September last year.

Sheik and another man, who has yet to be identified, threatened the 15 and 17 year-old boys and robbed them of their mobile phones before running off, leaving the victims shaken but unhurt.

Sheik was arrested two weeks later and charged with the robbery. He was sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court on January 29.

If anyone has any information about the second person involved in this incident, please call Hillingdon CID on 0208 246 1568.

An explosion at a farm house was narrowly averted by fire services following a blaze in Harlington last night.

20 firefighters from the Hayes, Heathrow and Hillingdon brigades were called to a fire at a large farm outbuilding in West End Lane yesterday evening.

It was eventually extinguished at 11.30pm, having battled the blaze for over two hours.

The emergency services cordoned off the surrounding area during the fire amid fears that gas cylinders stored in the building would explode when exposed to the flames.

No one was hurt, and the cause of the fire is being investigated.

A group of climate change demonstrators admitted to staging a three-day protest at a power station at Oxford Magistrates Court yesterday (February 1).

Among the protestors were Aimee Georgiou-Lornand, 18, of Hudson Road, Hayes, who was given a 12-month conditional discharge and ordered to pay £70 costs.

Oscar Cooper, 19, also of Hudson Road, had previous protest-related convictions and was given 60 hours unpaid work and ordered to pay £70 costs.

A KEBAB shop owner whose pest-ridden premises were discovered by council inspectors has been given a suspended sentence and banned from running a restaurant for six months.

Aman Ullah, 40, of Angel Way, Hayes, admitted to three charges of breaching food hygiene regulations and was sentenced to three months imprisonment suspended for two years after persistent sanitary failings at Kings Kebabish, in Botwell Lane, Hayes. The restaurant has since closed.

TWO TEENAGERS from Hayes are amongst the twenty protestors due to appear in court following a protest at an Oxford power station.

Aimee Georgiou-Lornand, 18, and Oscar Cooper, 19, both of Hudson Road, Hayes, face charges of aggravated trespassing along with 18 other climate change protestors after gaining access to Didcot Power Station in the early hours of October 26 2009, with the aim of making the facility inoperable.

They came down from the station's chimneys on October 28 and were arrested.

All twenty defendants, comprised of eleven men and nine women, have been released on bail and are due to appear at Oxford Magistrates Court on February 1.

TWO ten year-old boys accused of raping a young girl in a park have been committed to Crown Court.

The two boys are alleged to have carried out the sexual attack on the girl in College Way, Hayes, in October.

They were each subsequently charged with two counts of rape on the advice of the Crown Prosecution service in December.

The pair appeared at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on January 28 for committal, and are due to appear at Isleworth Crown Court on February 9 for a plea and direction hearing.

They have been released on conditional bail, and are not allowed to go to certain places unaccompanied by their parents, to speak to witnesses or to contact each other.

PROPOSALS to expand the HESA Primary Care Centre in Hayes have come to light.

Permission has been sought by NHS Hillingdon to change the retail use of the site next to the current centre in Station Road, and floor plans for the vacant 162 square-metre property - previously the old Post Office - include a corridor linking to the existing centre, 5 consultation rooms and a waiting area and reception.

A HAYES man has been handed a 15-month jail term after fraudulently claiming over £17,000 in benefits.

Joao Pedro Lando, 31, of Guiness Close, claimed housing and council tax benefit whilst failing to disclose student support grants and loans he had received. He also collected income support whilst in paid employment.

The total amount of benefits he claimed in a five year period, from 2002 to 2007, totalled £17,942.30.

BLOCKED drains in Harlington have become the latest problem for residents as they tackle the heavy downpours.

These pictures, taken on Harlington High Street, show the extent of the problem on some of the roads in the area and Chris Brady, a resident and street champion for the area, highlighted the High Street, the Manor Parade area and the road beside Harlington Village Green as particular problem areas.

He stressed that, despite reporting the blocked drains to the council, nothing had yet been done to address the problem.