Recently by Ian Proctor

Harrow Choral Society is holding A Festival of Christmas Music for Choir and Audience at Harrow School's Speech Room in High Street on Saturday, December 11, at 7.30pm.
Tickets for the concert, which features readings by actor Clive Swift, are £15 or £7.50 for the under-16s and can be ordered via 0208 863 7830 or ollypet@hotmail.com

Radio Northwick Park will be holding a Christmas fundraiser at Harrow-on-the-Hill station in College Road on Saturday, December 11, between 9am and 6pm.
Volunteers dressed as Father Christmas and elves will be collecting donations while passengers will be able to listen to the live shows broadcast from the station's studio at Northwick Park Hospital.

Harrow Public Transport Users' Association is holding a meeting of bus users on Wednesday at 2pm at Harrow Baptist Church Hall in College Road, Harrow, at which residents can quiz bus bosses.

A TALK about the cutlery used at 10 Downing Street is to be held on Wednesday (Oct 17) at 8pm at St Mary's Church Hall in Church Lane, with adults £3, concessions £2 and children free.
Speaker Christopher English, a member of Harrow Hill Trust, is secretary to the trustees of The Silver Trust, a collection of contemporary silver that has been commissioned for use by the Prime Minister and guests at his home.

The White Horse in Middle Road is holding two days of fundraising events for Leukaemia Research after a son of one of the regular patrons battled the disease.
A quiz night has been arranged for the evening of Thursday September 30 while the following day entrants are still sought for an 18-hole tournament at Ruislip Golf Club, with tickets costing £35 including lunch at the pub afterwards.
That same evening there will be a gala night of entertainment. Contact 020 8422 1215 for more information.

ONE of Harrow on the Hill's iconic tea rooms could be lost if plans to turn it into a family home are approved.
Tea At 3, located at 3 West Street, is currently closed and Harrow School, which owns the building, has lodged an application with Harrow Council to transform the building back into a house as it was in 1985.
The school's agent Andrew Reed told the authority in a design and access statement: "Whilst the lease does not expire until October 2013, it appears that the tea shop is unviable.
"[Conversion] will provide the school with additional masters accommodation close to the centre of the school.
"There will be no changes externally other than the removal of any signage."

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

AN EXHIBITION called 'Life-on-the-Hill in 20 Faces' runs until Thursday June 17 at Harrow School's Old Speech Room Gallery in High Street.
The 24 portraits, completed in a one day marathon session by South Harrow artist Dan Llywelyn Hall, can be seen for free daily between 2pm and 5pm.

QUESTION local police chiefs at the next meeting of the Harrow Police and Community Consultative Group on Thursday June 3 at 7.30pm at Harrow Civic Centre, Station Road, Harrow.
Chief Inspector Nick Davies will give a presentation on the borough;s new police initiatives.

HARROW on the Hill's heritage association, the Harrow Hill Trust, is asking gardeners and allotment holders to bring plant to sell or swap at a charity fundraiser.
Proceeds from the event, on Sunday, May 16, between 2pm and 4pm at Meadow Neighbours Garden, in Waldron Road, Harrow on the Hill, will go to the Tanglewood Club, which provides leisure activities for adults with learning difficulties.
The club is now based at Harrow Borough FC's Earlsmead Stadium in Earlsmead, South Harrow, after an appeal run by the Observer that followed it being booted out of its old home.