A WRITER who broke her rib has turned her accident into her fortune.

When former Uxbridge College student Alexia Casale had her rib removed - and then presented to her in a pot by what she calls 'a rather macabre surgeon' - the idea for her first novel, The Bone Dragon, was born.

LUCKY cinema goers were treated to a taste of Hollywood before they even entered the screen on Sunday.

Superstar Channing Tatum made a surprise visit with his wife to the Odeon in Uxbridge to watch the new Star Trek film and happily posed for photos with excited fans.

Fashion fever gripped Uxbridge last weekend.

The show took place at intu Uxbridge in the High Street where the latest trends for summer were on show.

The models danced and paraded whilst a DJ span tunes to back them up.

HILLINGDON Council has received a welcome boost to help its 'beds in sheds' crackdown.

The authority was given a £183,141 grant from the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) to tackle the illegal conversion of outbuildings into living spaces without permission or following planning law, and often providing cramped and poor living conditions.

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UXBRIDGE library's facilities have completed their move to two units in The Mall Uxbridge shopping centre.

FORGET calculus or ICT - what matters is picking a pocket or two and being 'one of us'.

The cast of Uxbridge High School's production of Oliver! certainly had the audience asking for more.

THE family of a man who died following exposure to asbestos has been awarded a £90,000 settlement.

Colin Hickford, from Cowley, worked for Cape Boards in Iver Lane, Cowley, as a boards inspector from 1964-65.

A nine-storey block of flats in the heart of Uxbridge has been approved.

The demolition of 1-3 Bakers Road - also known as Norwich Union House - to make way for a high-rise complex of 37 flats, businesses on the ground floor and a gym, was considered by Hillingdon Council planners earlier this month.

A SWEDISH bank has announced that it is looking to open a branch in Uxbridge.

Handelsbanken told its employees on Wednesday last week that it had selected the town for the site of its 149th store in the UK.

HILLINGDON Street Angels are set to look after even more people in Uxbridge, thanks to a grant.

The volunteers, members of local churches who help out people who have been out drinking in town on Friday nights, have been given £2,000 from Hillingdon Council's Uxbridge South ward budget.