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Mount Vernon urgent care closing Sept 26

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  Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service
The Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service at Mount Vernon Hospital will be reconfigured into the Urgent Treatment Centre at Hillingdon Hospital. 
The last patients will be seen at the Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner Service on Friday 26 September 2025. Patients should not attend after 4pm.     
This will help us to strengthen our service at the Urgent Treatment Centre at Hillingdon Hospital and ensure that our local communities continue to receive the best care possible.
All other services at Mount Vernon Hospital remain open as usual.
The closest alternative services are: Watford General Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, Vicarage Road WD18 0HB. This is open from 8am until 2pm every day. (5 miles); Northwick Park Urgent Treatment Centre, Watford Road, Harrow HA1 3UJ. This is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (7 miles).
Hillingdon Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, Pield Heath Road, UB8 3NN. This is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. (7.5 miles)

LBH recycling advice

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FROM LBH:
News Release
23 September 2025 Rescue your recycling this Recycle Week To mark Recycle Week 2025 (22 to 28 September), Hillingdon Council is encouraging residents to carefully check what they’re putting out for collection and discover how to reduce household waste at a recycling-themed event.
  
This year’s Recycle Week theme, ‘Rescue Me! Recycle!’ encourages people to recycle all they can by highlighting items regularly thrown away in general waste that can be recycled.  
 
While most households in Hillingdon sort their recycle well, items that the council can’t recycle can sometimes still be found in clear, dry, mixed recycling sacks by collection crews. To help residents eliminate those, the council’s ‘Top of the Contaminants’ campaign highlights how items, like food and clothing, can be recycled through other services it offers. 
 
To make it easier for residents to recycle household items, the council offers weekly rubbish and recycling collections, garden and food waste recycling, small electrical bins in libraries and doorstep textiles collections in partnership with the textiles charity, Traid. Harefield Civic Amenity Site also has dedicated bins for vapes and coffee pods. 
 
By taking two seconds to carefully check what’s going into their clear sacks, residents can play their part and help ensure that what goes to the processing plant is of high quality. 
 
Hands-on guidance for repairing clothes and small electrical items will be available to visitors to the council’s free Repair and Reuse Day at Botwell Green Leisure Centre in Hayes, on Saturday 27 September, from 11am to 2pm.  
 
The council’s recycling team is hosting a Recycling Roadshow at the event where you can get useful hints, tips and advice for household recycling and sign up for services, including automatic bag deliveries and food waste collections.    
 
By taking small steps to rescue recyclables and remove contaminants residents can make a big contribution to improving recycling in Hillingdon. 
 
Cllr Eddie Lavery, Hillingdon Council’s Cabinet Member for Community and Environment, said: “It’s great that so many households in Hillingdon already do their best to sort and separate what they can. While for some items, like sanitary products, going in the waste bin is the only option, for most other items from small electricals to coffee pods and batteries, the council offers a recycling solution. 
 
“Recycle Week’s campaign encourages not throwing away recyclable items. By also removing ‘top contaminants’ and properly disposing of non-recyclables, we can ensure we are collecting high quality recycling and reducing waste, which is better for the planet.” 
 
Find out what you can and can’t recycle in Hillingdon at www.hillingdon.gov.uk/rubbishandrecycling.

Yes please Dry mixed recycling

In Hillingdon, you can recycle paper, cardboard, glass and plastics every week for free – and it all goes in the same clear (dry mixed) recycling bag.
Watch our ‘That’s not my recycling’ video, which encourages children to ask grown-ups to check they’re only putting items we can recycle in to their clear bags. It can also be used by schools and families to talk about recycling at school and home.
We’ve also created a ‘Top of the Pops’ style chart countdown, exposing the top 5 contaminating items most commonly found in residents’ dry mixed recycling bags. What can I recycle in my dry mixed recycling bags?

Important: Please ensure all items/containers are clean, dry and empty.
Aerosol cans (do not pierce or squash)
Aluminium foil (clean)
Books
Butter and margarine tubs
Cardboard Cartons
Catalogues
Directories
Drinks cans
Envelopes
Food cans
Foil trays and containers
Glass bottles and jars (lids can be added to your recycling bag separately)
Junk mall
Magazines Newspapers
Paper
Plastic trays
Plastic bottles (including lids)
Shredded paper
Tetra packs (cartons with a waxed finish)
Wrapping paper (not the foil type)
Yellow Pages
Yoghurt pots

No thanks
Asthma pumps
Batteries
Bubble wrap
Clinical waste
Crisp packets
Disposable nappies
Disposable takeaway cups
Flower pots
Flowers and flower packaging
Food waste
Hard plastics
Hot food containers
Light bulbs
Packaging tape
Pet food packaging
Plastic toys
Polystyrene
Prescription bottles
Sanitary products
Shopping bags
Textiles
Wood  
 

Conveyor removal = BRS closure

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from  HS2

From 8pm on Friday 3 October to 8pm on Sunday 5 October 2025, we will remove the conveyor bridge over Breakspear Road South, located between the Chiltern Railway bridge and the HS2 Breakspear Road South bridge.

These works will be carried out 24/7 over a whole weekend which will require a full road closure on a section of Breakspear Road South.

We will dismantle the conveyor bridge in sections using an excavator before lifting them out with a crane and transporting the sections off site. These works will be carried out 24/7 over a whole weekend.

Please note, these works can only be carried out under rail possession, therefore, to ensure completion we have a contingency date in place from 8pm Friday 17 October to 8pm Sunday 19 October.

Travel issues this weekend

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Central Line: Severe delays due to train cancellations. Tickets being accepted on London Buses, Liberty Line , Elizabeth Line , Chiltern Railways, Great Western Railway and Greater Anglia

replan your journey

METROPOLITAN LINE: Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, no service between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge. There will also be no PICCADILLY LINE service between Acton Town and Rayners Lane. Replacement bus service ML1 operates between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge via West Harrow (Treve Avenue), South Harrow, Rayners Lane, Eastcote, Ruislip Manor, Ruislip, West Ruislip (for Central line and Chiltern Railways), Ickenham and Hillingdon PICCADILLY LINE: Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September, no service between Acton Town and Uxbridge. There will also be no METROPOLITAN LINE service between Harrow-on-the-Hill and Uxbridge. Replacement buses operate. Replacement buses operate:Service ML1: Harrow-on-the-Hill – West Harrow (Treve Avenue) – South Harrow – Rayners Lane – Eastcote – Ruislip Manor – Ruislip – West Ruislip (for Central line and Chiltern Railways) – Ickenham – Hillingdon – Uxbridge;Service PL4: Acton Town – Ealing Common – North Ealing – Hanger Lane (for Central line and Park Royal) – Alperton – Sudbury Town (Whitton Avenue East) – Sudbury Hill – South Harrow – Rayners Lane;

New Years Green Lane closure

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HS2 Works Notification:
Overnight road closure on Newyears Green Lane – 28 to 29 September 2025
From 9pm on Sunday 28 September to 5am on Monday 29 September, we will be carrying out overnight surveys on Newyears Green Lane, at the junction with Breakspear Road South.   To allow the surveys to be carried out safely, a section of Newyears Green Lane near the junction with Breakspear Road will be closed during the works. Diversion route will be sign posted.