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UP FRONT AROUND EALING EXTRA DID YOU MISS THESE STORIES? All available through Around Ealing Extra, online and by email FOOD ALLERGIES WEST LONDON FILM OFFICE Showing up ingredients Reel Life #1 New rules for businesses to highlight potential allergens to customers. This innocuous-looking kitchen saw some ghostly TV action. What other filming has gone on locally? SUSTAINABILITY HISTORY VIDEO: Career building VIDEO: Solar panels How apprentice scheme helps get you started. How a church charity has benefited. We never saw our parents again Local man’s war story. www.ealing.gov.uk/aroundealingextra Register for monthly emails at www.ealing.gov.uk/register Do something good Ealing Council has launched a new initiative, Bubble to help people make a difference to where they live. A new website www.dosomethinggood.org.uk helps residents and local groups connect with those hoping to start something new, or those looking to get involved with a project, and also anyone looking for help themselves. around ealing Spring 2015 Hundreds of new school places will be created in Northolt and Hanwell thanks to investment from Ealing Council. Elthorne Park High School will undergo a £12million expansion to enable it to gain two new classes at year 6, giving it an extra 60 places. This will mean it can enrol 240 new pupils every year, instead of 180. Other building work at Greenwood Primary will increase its annual intake from 60 reception pupils to 90, eventually creating an extra 210 places across the school. APPRENTICESHIPS 4 Creating space The council is considering plans to expand, or build, other high schools in the borough to meet the need for the equivalent of 3,150 high school places by 2021. Looking east Businesses and community groups in East Acton have been working together to produce a ‘charter’ which will set out a vision for the future of the area – and plans for how to start making it a reality. Last year the recently-formed East Acton Partnership commissioned Acton Community Forum to carry out a public consultation e