POPPING out for a pint proved lucky for one visitor to a Harrow on the Hill pub when he scooped a quintessential London day out in a prize draw.
The White Horse in Middle Road sold the winning pint of Fuller's brewery's ESB ale to customer Neil Proud which meant he and his partner Pauline got to be a chauffeured around the city before Neil was fitted for a suit from a Saville Row tailor and bagged a pair of English brogues.

ONE of Britain's oldest photographic studios - in Harrow on the Hill - can be demolished, councillors agreed.
The building, known simply as The Studio, was built in the middle of the 19th Century and is, according to reports, in a "very poor state of repair and not structurally sound".
This two-storey timber structure, which is locally listed, sits in a courtyard behind 104 High Street in Harrow on the Hill, the former branch of Hills and Saunders photographic studios.
The company documented life in the borough during the 20th Century and part of the 19th Century and was commissioned by Harrow School to take portraits of its schoolboys.
It has a dark room on the lower ground floor and a photographic studio on the first.
Although the council's conservation area advisory committee told councillors The Studio was the oldest in the country, Harrow School archivist Rita Boswell said: "That's not actually accurate. Before Hills and Saunders there was Goshawk, who was the local taxidermist and thought this new-fangled technology called photography could make him some money. Hills and Saunders bought him out."
Proposals to tear down the structure and build an exact replica, along with a two-storey detached block containing two flats and one house, was approved by Harrow Council's planning committee on Wednesday (13/01) after the authority's own conservation officer advised the studio was not worth saving given its present condition.
The application, lodged by Thomas Harriss, of Northwood, sought to renew planning permission that was obtained in 2004 and had expired.

The Old Speech Room Gallery Arts Society are holding a Japanese Prints Exhibition from 19th January 0 27th June 2010.

Harrow School are displaying great works from the past. The displays will be available to see from 19th January - 27th June 2010.

A FORMER Mayor of Harrow is leading the fight for the fourth time against potentially lucrative plans to replace five large houses with flats.
John Branch, of Sudbury Court Drive, Harrow, who served 12 years as a Liberal Democrat councillor on Harrow Council before retiring at the 2006 elections, started a 75-signature petition objecting to plans to replace 1 to 5 Sudbury Hill, Harrow, with a three storey block of 64 apartments above a basement car park.

A NUMBER of seasonal events being hosted across the borough in the run up to Christmas.
Plenty of people will wrap up warm to gather around the Christmas tree in Harrow on the Hill for the traditional community carol concert.

Come and join our Christmas Celebration on Saturday 12th December at Harrow School Speech Room, Harrow on the Hill starting at 7.30pm.

A STRING of five houses at a busy crossroads in Sudbury Hill could be torn down to make way for 64 flats - the fourth bid in nine years to redevelop the land.
The owners of numbers 1 to 5 Sudbury Hill, all detached residences, have clubbed together to apply for planning permission from Harrow Council for the demolition of their properties and the construction of the apartments.
And it turns out 1 Sudbury Hill is in the possession of none other than Harrow Council.
Since the millennium, three previous schemes have been submitted to the authority concerning the more or less same row of five homes on the border of Harrow and Ealing.
The first, in 2000, was refused - a decision upheld on appeal - the second in 2003 was withdrawn by the applicants and the third was thrown out when it was considered a year ago.
This latest submission is for a three-storey block of flats with basement parking that will aim to replicate the brick walls and pitched roofs of nearby properties.
In design statements lodged with the council, the architects say: "The urban grain is maintained and the building will form a well mannered and meaningful statement on this prominent corner."

ST MARY'S Church in Harrow on the Hill has been voted to be featured in a celebratory set of 'London Landmark' 2012 Olympics pin badges.
Residents from across the capital participated in a web vote for which building they would like to represent their borough on the brooches.
The poll took place in September and the results were announced in the run up to the 1,000 days to go milestone on Saturday October 31.
Reverend Tim Gosden, the vicar of St Mary's Church in Church Hill, said: "I think it's wonderful news that the people of Harrow have voted for this church."
St Mary's Church beat off competition from Headstone Manor in Pinner View, Harrow, Harrow School, High Street, Harrow on the Hill and Harrow Arts Centre, Uxbridge Road, Harrow Weald.
In Brent, Neasden Temple in Neasden succeeded against the only other shortlisted location, the Grand Union Canal, which runs through the borough.

Quiz to be held at St Dominic's College, Harrow on the Hill on Saturday 14th November
Doors open at 6.30 for 7pm start. Tickets £11 which includes Supper, wine and soft drinks