A brave mum who jumped into the chilly Thames at Isleworth to save her two-year-old daughter after she fell in, was rescued by a lifeboat crew in January.
Hammersmith and Fulham Council faced claims it was 'fleecing the motorist' after a notorious box junction on the corner of New King's Road and Bagley's Lane in Fulham was found to be responsible for £1million in fines.
The new year brought fresh hope for Steven Brown and his family , from Hayes. Given little chance of surviving an aggressive brain tumour by British doctors, pioneering surgery in America reversed Steven's fortunes, and he is now on the road to what seemed an unlikely recovery.
In February it was revealed that some beef products contained horse meat! The nation was outraged, but T-shirt shop in Uxbridge which produced 'I Could Eat A Horse' souvenir apparel went viral on Twitter - and local butchers experienced a surge in customers , as consumers shunned the supermarket meat aisles.
Tragedy struck when Guru Nanak pupil Poonam Bhattal, 13, died after falling from a ski-lift whilst on a school holiday in the Italian Alps, and there was an outpouring of emotion at her funeral and memorial. And Anna Kennedy, who founded Hillingdon Manor school for children with autism spectrum disorders in 1999, was Tesco's mum of the Year.
Quiet descended as the BBC vacated Television Centre after 53 years of entertaining and informing the British public from the iconic building White City.
