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PLANS for two new phone masts in Ruislip and Northwood have been thrown out by councillors.

Vodafone and O2 had hoped to install one 14.8m high mast on the roundabout at the junction of Kings College Road and Park Avenue.

Radio equipment was also needed and the installation was supposed to nestle between trees.

But councillors on the north area planning committee followed recommendations by officers who said the mast should be refused because it would be unsightly.

And the two phone companies were disappointed again when an application for a mast outside car dealership Autocentre, in Pinner Road, was also turned down for a similar reason.

A PLAN to install a phone mast in Pinner Road will be discussed at a council meeting on Tuesday (Jan 10), with officers recommending the committee reject the proposal.

Mobile companies Vodafone and O2 hope to put up the 15-metre high pole and other equipment in the pathway next to Autocentre.

It is the second time the companies have applied.

But a report due to be presented to the north area planning committee says the pole's height, position and design would make it unsightly.

MORE than 300 mourners gathered to pay their final respects to a fun-loving teenager described as 'everyone's best friend'.

James Whybrow, 18, was killed in a head-on collision on May 29 when the car he was a passenger in hit another oncoming vehicle in Cuckoo Hill, on the north-eastern boundary of the Hillingdon border.

His funeral was held at St Edmund the King Church, in Pinner Road, Northwood Hills, before he was buried at Northwood Cemetery in Chestnut Avenue on Saturday (19).

A HOSPITAL in Northwood Hills earmarked for redevelopment will remain empty for a further four years at least, health bosses have announced.

Northwood and Pinner Cottage Hospital, a First and Second World War memorial opened in 1924, was shut in 2008 due to the facilities being in 'very poor condition' and requiring 'substantial maintenance work', which debt-ridden Hillingdon Primary Care Trust (PCT), responsible for the site, was unable to afford.

In the meantime, patients in need of treatment including palliative, respite and rehabilitation care, as well as out-patient and podiatry services, have been forced to travel to Mount Vernon Hospital in Rickmansworth Road, Northwood.