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Coach of the Year 2017 Kazem Panjavi, of Stars for the Future Weightlifting Club
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A new West London Orbital rail line
is to be created after London Mayor
Sadiq Khan announced it would be
included in his transport strategy for the
capital. The line is to connect Hounslow
with Cricklewood and Hendon, and would
go via South Acton, Acton Central, and
Old Oak stations. The plan was proposed
by a partnership of the seven west London
councils, including Ealing (West London
Alliance), and will be taken forward with
Transport for London and Network Rail.
Visit ealingnewsextra.co.uk/features/wlo
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People are booking appointments
with doctors more easily thanks
to new online services. It allows
anyone registered with a GP practice to
book or cancel appointments, order repeat
prescriptions and view their records, all
without having to call the surgery. More
than 83,000 appointments were booked
this way between July-December 2017
across north-west London. In fact, a quarter
of people using GP services used the online
system in this time. By doing so, rather
than booking in person or over the phone,
GP practices have saved time, too. The
registration process is simple; for details visit
the NHS Choices website at www.nhs.uk
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Bowel cancer is the UK’s third most
common cancer and the second
leading cause of cancer deaths.
Most people who get bowel cancer are
aged over 60 and the NHS invites people
to take easy tests to help prevent it. Every
year, thousands of residents in Ealing aged
between 55 and 74 are invited to take part
in the National Bowel Cancer Screening
Programme, through one of two types of
quick and easy preventative test. For the
full story and a video of a nurse explaining
the process, visit ealingnewsextra.co.uk/
features/bowel-cancer
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around ealing April 2018
Praise a
local star
Does someone at a local sports club deserve
some recognition? You have until the end of April
to give it to them by putting in a nomination for
the 2018 Ealing Sports Awards. You could win
a prize for yourself, too.
After the success of the inaugural awards
event last summer, judges decided to open
nominations much earlier for this year’s. It
opened in November to allow even more
people to put forward their favourite sports
clubs, coaches, sports people or volunteers.
If you do make a nomination you will automatically be included in a
prize draw to win a year’s Everyone Active leisure centre membership.
Nominations close at midnight on Monday, 30 April 2018.
To make a nomination, visit
www.everyoneactive.com/EalingSportsAwards
Young and
sporty?
Ealing’s talented young athletes
are being given the chance to
compete against thousands of others
at the London Youth Games.
Trials are under way to select the borough’s best, aged
between seven and 18, to compete in a huge range of sports,
from athletics and archery to weightlifting and water polo.
Most of the qualifying competitions will take place in May
and June, with the finals for each sport taking place at Crystal
Palace National Sports Centre on 7–8 July.
Only children who live or go to school in Ealing borough are
eligible to try out.
Visit ealingnewsextra.co.uk/features/youth-games to
read the full story or email Jo Valks at [email protected]
to register for information about the games and the Ealing trials.