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THE walk-in clinic in the heart of Hayes Town could close, with urgent care services being moved to Hillingdon Hospital.

NHS Hillingdon has announced plans to shut the service at the Hesa Primary Care Centre in Station Road and redirect people with minor medical needs to a new urgent care centre (UCC) at Hillingdon Hospital.

wsg_po@66450_checkpointcharlie.jpgA LOCAL band has recorded an uplifting anthem for the upcoming Euro 2012 football championships.

Checkpoint Charlie hope Here 'Til The End will catch on among fans cheering on the national team at this summer's tournament, starting next month in Poland and Ukraine, and give Three Lions - the 1996 hit by Baddiel and Skinner and the Lightning Seeds - some competition.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl was left with serious facial injuries following a fight.

A 15 year-old girl was arrested in connection with the incident, and she has been bailed to a later date.

Sainsburys' in Hayes is looking for a good cause to support for the next year, and shoppers are being asked to help choose the charity.

The supermarket, at the Lombardy Retail Park in Coldharbour Lane, wants customers to vote in-store for their favourite local charity, and one will be chosen in June.

Sainsbury's' Local Charity Partner scheme is in its fourth year. Last year, they raised about £1,500 for the Alzheimer's Society.

Voting closes on May 23.

wsg_po@65797_aujla.jpgA HAYES man has been jailed for more than five years after admitting to attempting to sell heroin with a street value of in excess of £40,000.

Sukhpreet Singh Aujla, age 25, of Bourne Avenue, was sentenced to a total of five and a half years imprisonment at Harrow Crown Court on May 1.

A MAJORITY stake in one of the empty EMI office buildings due for refurbishment has been sold.

An unnamed investor has bought an 80 per cent stake, worth £3.8million, in the unoccupied Cabinet Building, the largest block at The Old Vinyl Factory, in Blyth Road, Hayes.

jgr_nlr_dretonio_3.jpgA EURO 2012 football anthem featuring an up-and-coming rapper from Hayes has become a surprise dance hit in America.

Dretonio - real name Andre Sinclair - is celebrating clinching the number one spot in two electro-dance charts in the States with Now Everybody Stand In Line, a catchy synth number calling on partygoers to 'do this football dance in time'.

It also has its own football-themed dance routine, which is sparking its own craze.

Two armed robbers face jail after admitting to a spate of raids.

Tommy Ellingham, 22, of Frogmore Avenue, Hayes, and Peter Wheeler, 23, of White Hart Avenue, Uxbridge, both admitted seven robbery charges and seven counts of possession of an imitation firearm when they appeared at Swindon Crown Court on Friday.

The robberies took place in London, Wiltshire, and the Thames Valley areas in January.

The pair are due to be sentenced on June 1.

jgr_nlr_becktrekkers_1.jpgFOUR managers at the Beck Theatre will walk from London to Brighton in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital.

'Team Beck' - made up of box office manager Lucy Court, head of operations Emily Gill, marketing and sales boss Catherine Goss and duty manager Simon Maples - will set off early on Saturday from Richmond Park, and walk the 62 miles non-stop to the south coast.

ONE of three men who stood trial for the murder of West Drayton's Anthony Dickson on Christmas Eve 2010 has been convicted of manslaughter.

Max Feliciano, 27, of Waylands, Hayes, was found guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday last week.

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