Harefield Gazette
Mayor told to ‘break stigma’ in getting prisoners to work
PRISONERS in London should be allowed out for short periods to work in order to better prepare them for life after detention, Sir Sadiq Khan has been told. Fewer than one in three Londoners leaving prison are in employment six months after release,...
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Patients left in hospital corridors falling from their trolleys
A WEST London hospital continues to ‘require improvement’ according to a new report from the Care Quality Commission (CQC). In some cases, patients left in corridors fell from their trolleys. The report details how in September 2025 alone more than...
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Electric car drivers must pay up too as congestion charges are shaken up
FOR the first time, drivers of electric vehicles (EVs) in central London are required to pay the capital’s Congestion Charge. Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan announced back in November that EVs would no longer be exempt from the fee starting from last...
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Met’s £20m funding gap may mean cut in police manpower
THE Metropolitan Police could face further staffing cuts if the impending funding settlement from the Home Office is inadequate, officials have warned. The force has already identified a £20 million budget gap in 2026-27 that they intend to bridge...
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‘TfL needs car club action plan’
TRANSPORT for London (TfL) is facing growing calls to establish a pan-London action plan to protect and promote car clubs following the UK closure of the world’s biggest carsharing firm. Zipcar, which is owned by US car rental group Avis Budget, said...
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London Mayor makes pledge to protect free school meals funding
THE Mayor of London has promised to protect funding for Free School Meals (FSM) for primary school pupils as long as he remains in post. Sir Sadiq Khan, who launched the programme in September 2023, has hailed the scheme as a “huge success” as he...
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London Mayor set to get new powers to impose tourism tax
THE Mayor of London has cautiously welcomed reports that he will be granted the power to impose a tourist levy on visitors staying overnight in the capital, and a report outlines how such a tax could work in London. Chancellor Rachel Reeves is...
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Thief is jailed for stealing Banksy art to repay drug debt
A MAN who stole a Banksy print from an art gallery to pay off a historic drug debt has been given a 13-month prison sentence. Larry Fraser, 49, stole the limited edition print belonging to the street artist’s Girl With Balloon series after breaking...
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Costs of climate emergencies ‘devastating’
LONDON’S emergency services have spent over £11 million responding to wildfires and flooding alone since 2018, new figures have revealed. The capital has seen 808 wildfires rage in the last seven years, costing the London Fire Brigade (LFB) more than...
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Developer given green light to build six new blocks of flats
SIX new blocks of flats are to be built in Mount Close, Ealing, alongside the refurbishment of four existing blocks. At their meeting on October 22, Ealing Council’s planning committee voted unanimously in favour of the redevelopment of the 1950s...
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THIRD RUNWAY REVIEW IS LAUNCHED – PAGE 9
under threat from evil wizard Vilgefortz. Initially wrong-footed, Geralt assembles an army of misfits and outcasts to take on Vilgefortz’s malevolent forces. UNDER PRESSURE MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, PARAMOUNT+, STREAMING NOW JEREMY Renner returns as the...
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BANKING ON IT
MORTIMER & WHITEHOUSE: GONE FISHING BBC Two, Sunday, October 26, 9pm MORE tales from the riverbank as Bob and Paul are back for another series of fishing and tomfoolery around Britain’s waterways. This time around they’re visiting people and places to...
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HIGH STAKES THE LIST
THE IRIS AFFAIR Sky Atlantic/Now, streaming from Thursday, October 16 ■ FROM Neil Cross, the creator of Luther, comes this tense eight-part thriller that combines high-tech knowhow with old fashioned cat-and-mouse games. When genius problem-solver...
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MISSING AT SEA
THE WOMAN IN CABIN 10 Netflix, streaming from Fri day, October 10 WHODUNNITS aboard a ship are not a new idea, but this film tries to update the idea by having the action take place aboard a billionaire’s yacht. Keira Knightley plays a travel writer...
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LOOK WHO’S BACK
BLAZERS and chinos at the ready, Norfolk’s most enduring light entertainment celebrity is back for a new series of cringeinducing encounters and situations. Freshly returned from Saudi Arabia, Alan has now reinvented himself as a well-being guru and...
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THE HOT LIST
BACK ON THE ROAD MICHAEL PALIN IN VENEZUELA HE may be 82, but Michael Palin shows no signs of slowing down or taking it easy as he sets out on another travel adventure following his recent trips to Iraq, North Korea and Nigeria. This time he’s heading...
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MURDER MOST COSY
COSY crime capers are everywhere at the moment but one of the best is this thoroughly entertaining series back for its fifth run. Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short play the podcasting friends who investigate murders in their New York building...
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MODERN REMAKE SKETCHY BUSINESS
HIGHEST 2 LOWEST Apple TV+, streaming from Friday, SPIKE Lee’s latest film is released simultaneously at cinemas and streaming, and is his take on acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 film High And Low, a classic police procedural. Lee...
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ON THE RUN
ATOMIC Now and Sky Atlantic, streaming from Thursday, August 28 ALFIE Allen is best known for his role as Theon in Game Of Thrones but here he takes the lead in this five-part adventure series based on the non-fiction book Atomic Bazaar by William...
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THE HOT LIST
1066 AND ALL THAT KING AND CONQUEROR BBC One, Sunday, August 24, 9.10pm and streaming on BBC iPlayer THE Battle of Hastings is one of the most famous, consequential conflicts in British history yet it’s something most of us know relatively little...
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GOING TO EXTREMES
LIMITLESS: LIVE BETTER NOW Disney+, streaming from Friday, August 15 ACTOR Chris Hemsworth (best known for playing Thor in various Marvel movies) is back with this series about physical and mental self-improvement. This time around he has three...
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Pay Grenfell cash, campaign group urges the Government
A CAMPAIGN group representing Grenfell Tower survivors has told authorities to stop prioritising their own financial interests after it emerged the Government has not yet coughed up the money to support survivors of the disaster. The Government has...
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THE HOT LIST
ON THE RUN ASSASSIN Prime, streaming from Friday, July 21 ■ THE presence of Keeley Hawes in anything is a sign that it’s well worth a watch and so it is in this new six-part thriller which has distinct echoes of 2022 Toni Collette drama Pieces Of Her....
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BY THE BOOK
BOOKISH THE latest project from the ever-inventive Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League Of Gentlemen) is an intriguing proposition as he plays a bookshop owner with a penchant for solving crimes in this post-war drama. Gatiss is the enigmatic Gabriel...
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THE HOT LIST
SCI-FI EPIC THE FOUNDATION AppleTV+, streaming from Friday, July 11 ■ THERE’S been a two-year wait for the third series of this acclaimed adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s epic sci-fi novels and things have moved on apace. Set in the far future, we follow...
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RISE OF A TYRANT
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS & SNAKES Netflix, streaming now THIS prequel to the hugely successful Hunger Games films centres on the rise of Coriolanus Snow, played so memorably by Donald Sutherland in the originals. Before he become a...
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WANNABE HERO
IRONHEART Disney+, streaming now THE Marvel Cinematic Universe keeps expanding and in this particular corner of it we follow the fortunes of Riri Williams (Dominique Thorne), last seen in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever movie in 2022....
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DEPARTING FRANK HAS LOVE FOR BEES – SPORT
teams up with the Seven Dwarfs and a bunch of bandits to reclaim her rightful place on the throne in this rather saccharine version of the story. there initially seems. Gripping stuff with plenty of twists along the way in this eight-parter. GOING...
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COMEDY CAPER
DEEP COVER Prime, streaming from Thursday, June 12 THIS fish-out-of-water comedy from director Tom Kingsley (Ghosts, Stath Lets Flats) makes the most of its unlikely premise and high-profile actors. Bryce Dallas Howard, Orlando Bloom and Nick Mohammed...
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RUB OF THE GREEN THE HOT LIST
STICK ■ IN the wake of Ted Lasso, here comes another sporting underdog series to warm the cockles of your heart. Owen Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, a golf prodigy who was destined for greatness until an on-course meltdown ruined his career. Now 20 years...
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A NEW HERO
CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Disney+, streaming now THE Marvel Cinematic Universe rumbles on in this action-packed superhero yarn which sees Anthony Mackie’s Sam Wilson takes over the role of patriotic talisman from Chris Evans’ Steve Rogers – and...
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THE HOT LIST
BACK TO NATURE SPRINGWATCH BBC Two, Monday, May 26, 8pm ■ SPRINGWATCH is back and it’s celebrating its 20th year with two new locations where we can enjoy seeing some of Britain’s diverse flora and fauna. Springwatch stalwarts Chris Packham and...
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Airport bird hide resembling control tower is unveiled
A BIRD hide designed to resemble an air traffic control tower has been unveiled near Heathrow airport. The structure allows visitors to watch wildlife at one of the 13 nature reserves on land owned by the west London airport. Anyone wanting to visit...
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A DEEP DIVE
OCTOPUS Prime, streaming from Thursday, May 8 AFTER the amazing success of Fleabag and working on James Bond and Indiana Jones films, who would have thought that the next project for writer-actor Phoebe Waller-Bridge would be a two-part documentary...
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MURDER MYSTERY
ANOTHER SIMPLE FAVOUR May 1 streaming on Prime from THIS sequel to 2018 film A Simple Favour in which Anna Kendrick’s Stephanie Smothers played a widowed mother and vlogger trying to find her missing friend Emily Nelson (Blake Lively) promises...
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MAN ON A MISSION
HAVOC, NETFLIX, streaming from Friday, April 25 WRITER-director Gareth Evans (Gangs Of London, The Raid) brings his intense, full-tilt action style to this tense thriller starring Tom Hardy. Hardy plays tough-guy detective Walker who attempts to...
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FACING THE PAST
THE GLASS DOME Netflix, streaming now THE Scandi Noir series keep on coming and this Swedish thriller certainly offers a different premise even if the overall feel of this crime drama is familiar. Criminologist Lejla Ness (Léonie Vincent) returns to...
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PERUVIAN ADVENTURE
PADDINGTON IN PERU Netflix, streaming now PADDINGTON goes large for his third big-screen outing, swapping the gentrified streets of London for the jungle of his native Peru in this action-packed adventure. When Paddington and the Brown family travel...
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TRIBAL LIFE
TRIBE BBC Two, Sunday, March 30, 9pm TWENTY years ago Bruce Parry took TV travel shows in a new direction when he embedded himself into tribal communities around the world, not just observing how they lived but joining their tribe and living like...
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CELEBRATING DURY
IAN DURY NIGHT BBC Four, Friday, March 21, from 9.15pm IT’S been a quarter of a century since the late, great singer-songwriter passed away and so it’s fitting that BBC Four pays tribute to his distinctive and underrated talent with a trio of...
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TROUBLED YOUTH
THIS ambitious and challenging drama follows the story of 13-year-old Jamie (an impressive Owen Cooper) who is arrested for the murder of one of his school mates. A tense and intriguing four-parter with each episode filmed as one continual shot so the...
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HERO RETURNS
FOR those still following developments in the world of superheroes, Marvel’s latest offering is a reboot of one of the early successes of the genre’s current wave as Daredevil returns for a new TV series after a sevenyear gap. British actor Charlie Cox...
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MONSTER
LOCH NESS: THEY CREATED A MONSTER BBC Two, Friday, February 28, 9pm IF you’re missing the spooky investigations of Uncanny, here’s a documentary with suitably strange and mysterious subject matter to fill the gap. The legend of the Loch Ness Monster...
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THE HOT LIST
UNDER ATTACK ZERO DAY streaming on Netflix, from Thursday, February 20 ■ ROBERT De Niro takes his first starring role in a TV series for this six-part political thriller that deals with some very timely issues. De Niro plays former US president George...
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BEHIND THE SCENES
THE WHITE LOTUS Sky Atlantic, Monday February 17, 9pm THE black-humoured satire set amid the moneyed classes in luxury hotels returns for a third series, this time located at a beach resort Thailand. An entirely new cast has been assembled by show...
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UNDER THE INFLUENCE
APPLE CIDER VINEGAR Netflix, streaming from Thursday, February, 6 THIS six-part series is a cautionary tale from the early days of influencers, social media and the wellbeing trend that continues to grab headlines and shape our lives. Kaitlyn Dever...
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DEEP END
THE RECRUIT Netflix, streaming from Thursday, January 30 NOAH Centineo returns as lawyer Owen Hendricks in this six-part spy drama in which the action switches to South Korea. His new mission is to uncover anti-US activity but his task is far more...
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SPACE HORROR
ALIEN: ROMULUS Disney+, streaming now WITH the first two instalments in the Alien saga (Ridley Scott’s 1979 original and James Cameron’s 1986 Aliens) proving to be landmarks in the sci-fi horror genre, the ongoing franchise has yielded mixed results...
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BACK TO NATURE
SANDI’S GREAT BRITISH WOODLAND RESTORATION Channel Four, Thursday, January 8, 8pm and streaming on All4 LEAVING the cosy surrounds of the Bake Off tent long behind her, Sandi Toksvig is taking on a far more daunting challenge as she and wife Debbie...
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FRESH START
DEATH IN PARADISE 22, 8.30pm THE continuing success of Death In Paradise despite - or maybe because of - its continual change of lead character shows what a powerful combination a crime mystery and a beautiful setting is. The series returns with Don...
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REMEMBERING MAGGIE
DAME MAGGIE SMITH: A CELEBRATION Saturday, December 14, 8.35pm ITV1, ONE of Britain’s greatest screen and stage actors gets a tribute show which celebrates the many successes of her long and varied career. After her death in September, there was a...
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SPYING GAME
BLACK DOVES Netflix, streaming from Thursday, December 5 THIS taut espionage series sees Keira Knightley make her bow in a prestige TV drama and she’s made a good choice with this sinewy, unpredictable six-parter. She plays Helen, a member of the...
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STORY OF THE SONG
THE MAKING OF DO THEY KNOW IT’S CHRISTMAS? Friday, November 29, BBC Four, 9pm FORTY years on from when Michael Buerk’s news report about famine in Ethiopia shocked Bob Geldof and Midge Ure into putting together the Band Aid project, this documentary...
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TENSE THRILLER
DARK WINDS streaming Alibi, Thursday, November 21, 10pm and THE first series of this involving 1970s-set noirish western thriller went under the radar but it’s back for another season that promises similar levels of mystery and intrigue. Zahn...
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‘MEGABOATS’ FIGHT LOST BY COUNCIL – PAGE 8
from Patrick Radden Keefe’s award-winning book about an abduction in the midst of THE Troubles in 1972. The taking of Jean McConville is the starting point for a look at how the sectarian hatred and violence affected communities on both sides of the...
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NATURAL WONDERS
ASIA BBC One, Sunday, November 3, 6.20pm ■ THIS landmark seven-part series promises some incredible wildlife footage as it surveys the flora and fauna of this enormously varied continent. In the first episode, the focus is on the sea – Asia has the...
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TRACKING HISTORY
ALICE ROBERTS: OTTOMAN EMPIRE BY TRAIN Channel 5, Saturday, October 26, 9pm CELEBRITY travelogues are ten a penny these days but here’s something with a bit more substance than the usual tourist boardapproved highlights package approach. Professor...
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EXCESS ALL AREAS
RIVALS Disney+, streaming from Friday, October 18 ■ THIS big-budget adaptation of Jilly Cooper’s raunchy ’80s novel has already got plenty of hype before it has even aired, so expect to hear plenty about it in the coming weeks as this frothy tale of...
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MALE VIOLENCE
CURFEW Paramount+, streaming from Thursday, October 10 THIS six-part crime drama based on the novel After Dark, by Jayne Cowie, looks at issues around women’s safety and male violence from a different angle. Set in an alternative world, men are under...
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CREEPY PREQUEL
APARTMENT 7A Paramount+, streaming now ROSEMARY’S Baby is rightly considered one of the best horror films ever made and this prequel movie looks at events leading up to the landmark 1968 film starring Mia Farrow. Julia Garner stars as Terry...
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CRIME PAYS
ILLUMINATING and acclaimed drama about an enduring friendship that won rave reviews at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year. The film follows a 17-day road trip taken by actor Will Ferrell and writer Harper Steele after the latter revealed her...
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WITCHING HOUR
AGATHA ALL ALONG Disney+, streaming now AFTER some lacklustre offerings in the past couple of years, the Marvel Cinematic Universe racked up box office gold with Wolverine and Deadpool at cinemas in the summer and it’ll be hoping for more success with...
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