COMPLAINTS over excess noise have sparked a review of the way a modern Irish pub in Belmont Circle is run.
Edward Davis asked councillors to look again at the operating permit of the Life Of Reilly in Warwick Parade - which only opened last year - on the grounds of 'the prevention of public nuisance'.

COMBATING hospital superbugs in southern India is the aim of a doctor from Harrow and Brent's public hospitals who has been asked to dispense his advice on the subject.
Dr Guduru Gopal Rao, head of microbiology and lead clinician for infection control at The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust, is helping officials in Andhra Pradesh stop the spread of infections including the new super resistant NDM-1 virus that has been brought back to Britain by travellers.

DIRECTOR of the Jewish Music Institute, Geraldine Auerbach, of Gerard Road, is organising Klezmer in the Park, an afternoon of free klezmer performances - traditional Jewish dance music - at Regent's Park Bandstand on Sunday September 5 from 1pm to 5pm.
It will feature four live bands with introductions by DJ Max Reinhardt of BBC Radio 3's Late Junction show.

A TWO-and-a-half year contract to run the extra care service at Ewart House, a sheltered housing scheme in Richards Close, has been awarded by Harrow Council to Manchester-based Creative Support Ltd.
The decision was taken on August 10 by Councillor Phillip O'Dell (Labour), the deputy council leader and portfolio holder for environmental and community safety, and will enable the elderly residents of 47 flats to live independently as possible when they move in in October.

THE owners of The Life Of Reilly in Warwick Parade, Belmont Circle, want to extend the pub's closing time by roughly an hour to 12midnight Sunday to Thursday and by two hours to 1am on Friday and Saturday.
They have applied to Harrow Council to vary the condition of the planning permission from 1996 the venue, formally known as The Lough Inn, has.

A NURSE who spent more than five decades in the midwifery and related professions has retired from Harrow's Northwick Park Hospital.
Rosemary Clarke, 74, from Kenton, who said goodbye to colleagues at a party held on Wednesday, told the Observer she had stayed so long in the job purely because she enjoyed it so much.

AN ACADEMIC has criticised the unilateral introduction of a £5 charge for requesting items from other borough's libraries that he says will curb the enjoyment of keen readers like him.
Since 1994, Kishor Kale, of Harrow, has borrowed an average of between four and six books or periodicals per week and usually two of them, typically both academic journals, need to be brought in from elsewhere.

A MAN and a woman had to be taken to hospital following a collision between a car and a pedestrian in Railway Approach, Harrow.
The incident, at 12.20am on Sunday (June 13), left a 26-year-old man with leg and facial injuries and a 22-year-old woman with injuries to her head and knee, although the emergency authorities were unable to tell the Observer which was in the pedestrian and which was an occupant of the vehicle.
"Both were taken as a priority to Northwick Park Hospital," said a spokeswoman for the London Ambulance Service.

A HARD rock band from Harrow will be the opening act for their hero Bon Jovi at his stadium gig this Sunday (June 13).
New Device bandmates Daniel Leigh, Roz Ison, Andy Saxton, Shane Lee and Gaz Bowlan entered a Open For Bon Jovi competition, sponsored by the music promoters AEG Live, by sending in a demo of their music.

HARROW Council's planning committee was yesterday (Wednesday) evening recommended to approve plans to vary the planning permission of Freddy's Bar and Grill in Station Road from 8am to 1pm daily to 7am to 12midnight Sunday to Wednesday and to 7am to 2am Thursday to Saturday.