The past seven days have seen a number of wide-ranging stories grabbing your interest. Here we run down some of the top stories you read over the week.

Brentford set to close academy three years after it opened

Students from Brentford FC Academy and Uxbridge High School training.

Brentford's category two football academy is set to close just three years after it opened and six from when the project first started.

The club have been conducting a detailed review about the academy over the past few months and it is understood the club have made the decision to close, rather than downgrade.

The club became operational in late 2013 and was officially opened in January 2014 .

Emergency services carry out controlled explosion in Uxbridge

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Emergency services carried out a controlled explosion at an old industrial estate in Uxbridge on Wednesday (May 11).

Chemicals were found after they were disturbed during building work on the site, and the area within 100m of the site was evacuated as a precaution.

Reports of stabbing in West Drayton

Police officers investigate at the scene of a stabbing in West Drayton

A man in his 30s suffered a stab wound to the hand in West Drayton on Thursday (May 12).

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said officers had responded to reports of a fight in Sipson Road at about 3.45pm.

The man was taken to the hospital. His condition was not thought to be life-changing.

Life in jail for Hayes man who stabbed partner to death

Billy White killed his girlfriend in March 2015 whilst she slept in her flat in Hayes

A Hayes man faces life in jail after stabbing his girlfriend and mother-of-one to death whilst she was asleep in her own home.

Billy White, 23, of Pinkwell Lane, Hayes, pleaded guilty murdering 25-year-old Lucy Ayris on Wednesday (May 11), after changing pleas and putting her family to 'hell and back'.

He will serve a recommended minimum 15 years in prison.

White had admitted the 'unprovoked' killing in court a year ago , but the plea was reversed when psychiatrist reports were submitted.

He was due to stand trial this week at the Old Bailey but changed his plea, yet again, to guilty.

Mother of boy who escaped nursery speaks

The nursery is based in Cavendish Recreation Ground on Field End Road, Eastcote

The mother of a toddler who was able to escape a nursery in Eastcote has revealed he was only led to safety when a parent at a different nursery found him .

My Mum's Away @ Cavendish, on Field End Road, is temporarily closed after a 19-month-old boy wandered out of the building on his own on Monday April 25.

The mother of the 19-month-old, who dropped her son off at 9.05am, who asked to remain anonymous, told getwestlondon she was told of the incident two hours later by text.

She said: "Your worst nightmare as a parent is your child coming to harm, but the fact is that he was wandering and we don't know what happened in that time, and that's what's battling us."