Music lovers can cash in their old phones for cut-price tickets to a festival in Cranford next month.

Anyone handing in a working mobile, which is less than five years old, will get £4 off entry to the Blastbeat Music Festival at Cranford Community College on Saturday, July 4.

There will be a chance to visit four places of worship in Hounslow on Sunday 21st June by joining the annual Walk of Peace and Friendship organised by Hounslow Friends of Faith. This year the event focuses on Hounslow West, a compact area with a rich variety of places of worship.

The British National Party received nearly 2,700 votes in Hounslow in the European elections.

The far right extremists polled more than five per cent of the total votes cast in the borough.

On Thursday 4th June there will be a chance to hear from the Hindu community in Hounslow about the basic philosophy and every day practices of Hinduism today. Hindus believe that God exists in everything in the universe and there is a responsibility to care for the earth in everything we do. Hinduism is the oldest of the world major religions and the third largest.

Canadian popsters The Mission District are among the bands lined up for a summer concert organised by pupils at Cranford Community College.

The rising, whose growing fan base includes celeb blogger Perez Hilton, will be joined by Go:Audio, with more bands yet to be announced, at theBlastbeat Music Festival on July 4.

Martin Luther King stated that the choice for mankind is not between violence and non-violence, but between non-violence and continued existence. An audience in Hounslow on 7th May were reminded of this at the Younghusband Lecture, given at the annual meeting of the World Congress of Faiths (WCF) held this year in the Sikh Gurdwara in Alice Way.

Youngsters from Cranford Community College have been honoured at an award ceremony.

Eight pupils from the school in Cranford High Street picked up Jack Petchey Achievement Awards at the Paul Robeson Theatre, in the Treaty Centre, Hounslow High Street.

The Bishop of London, the Rt. Rev. Richard Chartres met priests, ministers and spiritual heads from Chiswick to Feltham on Monday 30th March and advised them to 'be convinced, be humble, be joyful and look cheerful in your faith'.

A train enthusiast and keen organist this week became the new rector of the Parish of Cranford.

Father Michael Gill held his first mass at Holy Angels in Cranford High Street yesterday, before making the short hop to historic St Dunstan's for his induction.

Pupils and teachers at Cranford Community College are celebrating after it was rated 'outstanding' for English.

The secondary school, in Cranford High Street, achieved top marks across the board for the subject in its latest Ofsted report, published this month.