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COMMUTERS journeys have been seriously affected today (Friday) after the Metropolitan Line was part suspended.

The line has been suspended between Hillingdon and Uxbridge for over an hour between 8am and 9am.

Transport for London blamed the problems on a signal failure at Uxbridge tube station.

Trains have not been running in either directions, and travellers are being urged to seek other methods of transport.

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CADBURY headquarters in Uxbridge were visited by the boss of the chocolate firm's new owners Kraft.

Irene Rosenfeld, Kraft chief executive, visited the offices in Sanderson Road, Uxbridge on Tuesday (2) to speak to her new employees.

Making a speech to workers, she pledged to create a new business plan and senior-management line up within 45 days.

Only after this time, will any possible redundancies be realised. City analysts have predicted up to 150 jobs could go at the Uxbridge offices.

VICTIMS of car clampers who feel they have been unfairly treated could be given the right to take the cases to appeal at an independent tribunal.

Drivers in Uxbridge Road, Hayes, and Uxbridge High Street, have reported particular problems with clampers in recent months.

One case saw a disabled woman forced to hobble home after her car was clamped and she did not have the money to pay for its release.

AMBULANCE crews dealt with two major incidents in Hillingdon with three people taken to hospital.

The first took place in Uxbridge at 1.15pm on Thursday at the junction of Montague Road and Chippendale Waye.

Two cars collided and a 19 year old man, and a woman believed to be in her 80s were taken to Hillingdon Hospital.

THE Chinese Olympic team are a gong strike away from making Uxbridge their base for the 2012 games.

Delegates from the Chinese Olympic committee have paid the town a secret visit to investigate the possibility of basing their team in Uxbridge for the London games or for a pre-games training camp.

The delegates were given a tour of Brunel University's top class athletics facilities, and the soon to be opened Olympic sized swimming pool at Uxbridge Lido.

OFFICES in Uxbridge have been sold for £19.2 million, twice what was paid for it in April.

Capital Court, in Windsor Street, Uxbridge was owned by the Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust.

It has been bought by Orchard Street Management, and is let to firms inluding recruiters Manpower UK and solicitors Iliffes Booth Bennett.

The property had preiously been bought in April for 10.98m, and the announcement was made yesterday (Tuesday) the day it was also announced Britain was out of recession.

IT IS usually boats and not goats which are spotted in the canal, so one dog walker had the shock of her life when she saw a dead animal in there on Sunday.

Jay Burgin, 65, of Cowley Mill Road, Uxbridge, was walking her dog along by the Grand Union Canal near Culvert Lane on Sunday, when she spotted the animal.

Worried it might be somebody's pet, she attempted to rescue it, but was unable to, and phoned Hillingdon Council and asked them to remove it.

Mrs Burgin said: "It seems so sad, to see the body of a dead goat in a canal.

"If it was my pet I would like to know what happened to it, may be it got swept in there by flooding."

The goat was described as white and brown, fairly young and well built, with long brown ears.

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DRIVERS are being warned of the dangers of alcohol over the Christmas period in an initiative to prevent road deaths.

Hillingdon Council is supporting the national 'Think Campaign', which warns that drink driving has the potential to ruin lives.

THE closure of both the Piccadilly and Metropolitan tube lines this weekend will cause chaos for Christmas shoppers.

The Piccadilly line will be suspended for planned engineering works on Saturday (14) and Sunday (15) between Uxbridge and South Harrow.

TWO enterprising musicians have opened a shop selling what they say is the 'perfect Christmas present' as well as a boost to local pride.

T-shirts emblazoned with witty slogans promoting Uxbridge, Hayes and West Drayton, among others, are for sale, as well as hoodies.