IN TODAY'S Observer the mother of X Factor's Kye Sones issues a rallying cry for support fromour readers after he was close to being booted of the ITV show last week.

We have news on a threatened day care and respite centre for people with learning disabilities andtheir carers, and on an eco group, which has been lobbying on environmental issues in Harrow for16 years, which is also fighting for survival.

In Brent, the father who lost his wife and five of his children in a devastating house fire in Neasdentells his harrowing story at the inquest into their deaths.You can also find out which heavy metal star - who looks like he has come straight out of a horrorfilm - visited Wembley this week to make his mark ahead of his Halloween-themed concert.

Other Halloween-inspired stories come from the young people whose months of preparation are setto come to fruition on Saturday for Halloween Oxjam – a night of music and ghost tours at HarrowArts Centre, all in the name of a good cause.See our in-depth feature about a school in Brent which offers a very unusual kind of classes and ourleisure section for how to enter a local film making competition.

In sport, a Master Instructor of martial arts drops into a local school and Harrow Borough FC'smanager issues a stark warning to players.See your free copy of the Observer for all this and more or pick up a copy in the shops for 70p.