BRINGING 10,000 predominantly Jewish children from across central Europe to the UK in the months before the Second World War, the renowned Kindertransport saved lives, but also separated families never to be reunited.

Marion Marston, long settled in Stanmore, escaped on a train from Halle in central Germany in 1939, but was fortunate enough to eventually be reunited with her parents.

A WRITING coach has launched a book which coaches university students to start writing to their potential.

Greta Solomon, 35, former headgirl at Bentley Wood, Stanmore, ditched a career in journalism and public relations to go full-time as a writing coach and author.

THE ROYAL National Orthopaedic Hospital in Brockley Hill, featured in Tuesday's episode of the BBC2 documentary series, Keeping Britain Alive: The NHS In A Day.

Scenes filmed last year told the story of Steven Briggs, a patient who sustained a severe spinal cord injury at his home.

BENTLEY Wood High School in Bridges Road has been granted teaching school status by the National College for School Leadership, which entitles the school to lead the training and professional development for staff on behalf of the Harrow Alliance of primary and secondary schools.

The academy is one of only 150 schools in England to receive the accolade in the third wave of the scheme.

PLANS were submitted to Harrow Council on Wednesday last week to use former council offices in Buckingham Road as a children's nursery for two to five-year-olds and a tuition centre for five to 16-year-olds.

The scheme includes a two-storey extension, parking, landscaping, refuse storage and a timber canopy over the play area.

A SANDWICH shop became the latest branch of a popular local bakery chain to open.

Staff at The Wenzel's The Bakers outlet in The Broadway, Stanmore, welcomed customers alongside the company's distinctive baker mascot for the first time today.

BARNET FC has submitted plans to alter the specifications of their new home ground at Edgware without increasing its capacity.

The Football League Two club is relocating from Underhill Stadium in Barnet, north London, to play professional matches at its training ground The Hive Football Club in Camrose Avenue from next season thanks to planning permission and a lease agreement from landlord Harrow Council, and permission from the Football League.

BARNET FC has submitted plans to alter the specifications of their new home ground at Edgware without increasing its capacity.

The Football League Two club is relocating from Underhill Stadium in Barnet, north London, to play professional matches at its training ground The Hive Football Club in Camrose Avenue from next season thanks to planning permission and a lease agreement from landlord Harrow Council, and permission from the Football League.

RELATIVES of a young girl whose death spawned a charity are pushing for more investment into brain rumour research.

Colin Hinton, whose granddaughter Alison Phelan passed away from the disease aged 7, joined umbrella charity Brain Tumour Research and The All-Party Parliamentary Group on March 12 at the House of Commons to present the findings of a report by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) which found brain tumours have one of the lowest survival rates of all cancers and one of the lowest levels of funding.

GIRLS turned silent storytellers in order to mime and dance the plot of two children's books.

The pupils at Peterborough and St Margaret's School in Common Road, Stanmore, worked with a choreographer from West End In Schools dance group on Thursday to create and act out vignettes in front of their teachers to celebrate World Book Day.