A STUDENT at ACS Hillingdon has spoken of her experience of helping out of a medical expedition to Vietnam.

WITH a name like Morris, it was pretty inevitable, when he joined the town's rotary club, that Alan was going to be asked to help with the annual autoshow - but it is a role that he has relished and which has taken up a fair chunk of his life for the past 12 years.

MORRISONS has made major changes to its store plans for Hillingdon Circus in what has been called a victory for business and the people.

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Auditions will soon be open to young people eager to join EastEnders star Adam Woodyatt in the Beck Theatre's Christmas pantomime.

A CHILDREN'S author popped into Waterstones in Uxbridge to launch her new book.

Tara Nolty Johnston read some of Olivia Long Life Sweet Dreams to a group of gathered children in the store, in The Chimes, before signing copies and posing for photographs.

AN UXBRIDGE company has teamed up with social networking giant Facebook to launch a new traning tool.

MindLeaders, an e-learning company which has its head office in Windsor Street, is hoping its new invention will help small businesess attract more customers.

THE owner of an Uxbridge hairdressing salon showed off her scissor skills at Kick Off - a Belgian hair show.

Gill Berry, who runs Hug 8 in Bakers Road, took to the stage in Antwerp in front of 500 people.

SHOPKEEPERS in Uxbridge are in safe hands - the town centre has been rated as one of the safest places in the country for retailers.

A report by experts at BNP Paribas Real Estate compared the "risk factor" of a store going bust in the town with nearly 100 others around the country.

It was declared to be third safest place to invest in retail, behind only Lewisham and Wood Green.

Neighbouring Harrow also appeared on the list, meaning there is competition for the high street.

THE winner of TV cooking contest MasterChef is a graduate of Brunel University.