HUNDREDS of people turned out to see the many activities, crafts and animals on show at a celebration of woodland life on Sunday.

The annual Ruislip Woods Festival did not disappoint visitors who enjoyed ferret racing, heavy horses giving work displays, birds of prey, woodwork, charcoal burning and morris dancing.

A SCOUT leader who has dedicated almost 50 years to teaching young people about the great outdoors has stepped down from her role.

Janet Clark, 66, of Coome Drive, Eastcote, has led the 5th Eastcote Scout group, which meets at The United Reformed Church of Eastcote and Northwood Hills, in Bridle Road, since 1986.

A MOTHER of four admitted breaching a lifetime ban on having pets by keeping 10 stray cats in her home.

Michelle Cheyney, 28, from Sandalwood Drive, Ruislip, said she took in a stray adult cat and two litters of kittens because she felt sorry for them.

She pleaded guilty to keeping the 10 cats despite having a life ban on Tuesday last week at Uxbridge Magistrate's Court in Harefield Road, Uxbridge.

DIRECTORS and staff at a hairdressers have marked 10 years in business with the opening of a bigger better salon.

Helen Morgan and Lisa Meredith opened www.comb in Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor, with a staff of just two - themselves.

Now they have a team of stylists who all began as teenagers and have trained in the salon.

STUDENTS got the star treatment as they took to the red carpet to kick off prom season.

Teenagers from year 11 at Bishop Ramsey School in Hume Way, Ruislip, celebrated in style on Friday last week as they enjoyed their school prom ahead of their GCSE exams.

The young men and women glammed up in evening gowns and three-piece suits and arrived at the prom in a variety of transport methods, with one student making her entrance on the back of a motor bike.

A SINGLE father and his two teenage children are homeless because he cannot inherit the council house they have lived in.

Scott Davies has been living at his father's home in Breakspear Road, Ruislip, for the past year.

His mother and father - Heather and Dave Davies - lived there for 46 years before her death two years ago.

PARALYMPIAN Natasha Baker spent an afternoon with more than 100 multicoloured horses.

But this time she wasn't in the saddle; she was admiring Newnham Infant and Junior School's colouring competition entries, in which pupils had created their own dream four-legged friend.

A WOMAN counting the cost of a collapsed ceiling is locked in a battle with her landlord.

Mary Davis, 59, lives in a flat in Victoria Road, Ruislip Manor. Her ceiling fell down on May 2, ruining furniture and family photographs, which she says have been left covered in rat droppings and urine from an apparent infestation between her flat and that of a neighbour, who lives upstairs.

A bookshop that also sells hats has kept a brother and sister busy for seven months as they built up their business.

Jacqueline Kemp, who lives in Northwood, and Richard Kemp, who travels from the Cotswolds each week, own Madcap Books in High Street, Ruislip.

A GROUP of friends hopped on bikes to give a groom-to-be a stag do with a difference.

Jack James, from Rosebury Vale in Ruislip was told to get on a bike for his final fling as a single man.

Mr James, who is marrying fiancee Jess this summer, and the group pedalled from Ruislip Manor to Camden Town along the Grand Union Canal towpath, with stops at pubs and bars along the way.