LEARN about French glass artist Rene Lalique and his Art Noveau jewellery through a talk to be given by jeweller David Callaghan.
The Frenchman, who lived between 1860 and 1945, is the subject of the free lecture organised by Harrow National Trust Association.
Lalique's designs became acclaimed after making jewels for Sarah Bernhardt and then exhibiting at the great Paris exhibitions of 1894 and 1900 and in turn he attracted the attention of Calouste Gulbenkian, who purchased over 150 major items of jewellery from him, of which many are now exhibited in the Portuguese capital Lisbon.
From 1900 onwards he concentrated on works in glass and Lalique glass is still made today to his original designs and patterns.

Where? Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End
When? 8pm on Monday, September 6
Cost? Free
Contact? See the talk programme at www.hanta.btik.com

A VACANT shop in South Harrow could be converted into a college and a bookshop by an ex-member of Stanmore College staff.
The proposal is to change the use of the premises in Eastcote Lane - formerly Quality Sports - into the Harrow Tutorial College, to be run solely by lecturer Kandiah Kandeepan.

A WATER leak that caused damage to the electrics forced the closure of Chandos Children's Centre in Chandos Crescent, Edgware, on Thursday.
The damage is being repaired and the building is due to reopened today.

STANMORE charity Ali's Dream will receive a £500 donation from Tesco to celebrate the supermarket chain's opening of its new Express format store in Pinner Road on Friday August 27.
The guest of honour at the ribbon-cutting ceremony will be Julie Phelan, who set up the charity with her husband and friends following the death from a brain tumour of daughter Alison Phelan three weeks before her eighth birthday in 2001.

AN ARTIST from Stanmore who paints and draws in her spare time is exhibiting solo for the first time at her local library.
Rajul Shah, 26, of Dennis Lane, said although they do not have price tags, the works hanging at Stanmore Library in Stanmore Hill until tomorrow (Friday) can be bought.

AN EYE-eagled council worker helped catch a benefits cheat after spotting that bank statements had been faked.
In a bid to continue receiving council tax and housing benefit, bartender Arsim Bajrami, 43, submitted fraudulent Natwest Bank paperwork to conceal the fact that more than £300 of other government tax credits had been paid into his account.

A NUCLEAR bunker from which Winston Churchill oversaw the D-Day landings could be dismantled at former RAF Bentley Priory.
Landowner VSM Estates, which bought the land from the Ministry of Defence after the base in Stanmore was decommissioned, is seeking permission from Harrow Council to deconstruct the vacant two-storey underground structure along with one of the six entrances located above ground because no other use can be practically made of it.

MUCH-needed laboratories, classrooms and a new dining room could be built at an independent school in Edgware.
North London Collegiate School in Canons Drive is seeking planning permission to pull down a two-storey L-shaped 1970s extension and yard - currently used for kitchen deliveries and store, and computing classrooms - to make way for a four-storey modern replacement.

SELF-made millionaire Dolar Popat, of Stanmore Hill, Stanmore, took his seat in the House of Lords as Lord Popat of Harrow on Monday (July 12).
The 55-year-old working peer is chief executive of hospitality and health care firm, TLC Group, based in Railway Approach, Harrow, and president of Harrow East Conservative Association.

DAVID Gordon, a specialist registrar at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (RNOH) in Brockley Hill, has been awarded the Robert Jones Gold Medal and British Orthopaedic Association Prize for the most outstanding and original essay related to orthopaedics.
Mr Gordon, who has worked at the trust since October 2009, received the honour for his work 'The Development of Bone Anchored Amputation Prostheses', which he completed at the Centre for Biomedical Engineering, based at the RNOH.