Harlington School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in the Harlington area of the London Borough of Hillingdon, England.
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The 1948 Heathrow disaster was the crash of a Douglas DC-3C of the Belgian airline Sabena at Heathrow Airport, London, United Kingdom on 2 March 1948. It was the first major accident at Heathrow Airport; of the 22 people on board 20 were killed, of whom most had British nationality.
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Hayes and Harlington is a constituency in the west of London represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 1997 by John McDonnell of the Labour Party, who also served as the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer from 2015 to 2020.
The seat, created in 1950, is 1 of 49 won by a Labour candidate in 2017 from a total of 73 covering London. In the period 1983–1997 the seat was Conservative-represented. From 1981 until 1983 the seat was represented, by defection, by a member of the Social Democratic Party which later merged into the Liberal Democrats. From 1950 until 1983 the seat was won by Labour candidates.
Its London Heathrow Airport component has most of the border with Buckinghamshire and Surrey and its shape is near-square with a north-east square attached: Hayes and Yeading. Harlington is among the lowest-population components of the seat; with Hayes it gives its name to a railway station and with Hayes was the name of an urban district.
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The Harlington Locomotive Society, also informally known as the Harlington Miniature Railway, is a trestle railway about half a mile in length through an old orchard in the village of Harlington, London Borough of Hillingdon, Greater London.
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The London Borough of Hillingdon is a London borough in Greater London, England. It forms part of outer London and West London, being the westernmost London borough. It was formed in 1965 from the districts of Hayes and Harlington, Ruislip-Northwood, Uxbridge, and Yiewsley and West Drayton. The borough includes Heathrow Airport and Brunel University, and is the second largest of the 32 London boroughs by area.
The main towns in the borough are Hayes, Ruislip, Northwood, West Drayton and Uxbridge. Hillingdon is the third least densely populated of the London boroughs, due to a combination of rural land in the north, RAF Northolt Aerodrome, and Heathrow Airport.
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The Global Academy is a University Technical College located on The Old Vinyl Factory site in Hayes, London.
The UTC opened in September 2016 and is sponsored by the media and entertainment group Global and by the University of the Arts London.
On 20 April 2017, the academy was officially opened by the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry in their capacity as patrons of "Heads Together", a mental health charity. Two breakfast shows from Global radio stations were broadcast live from the Academy: Heart London Breakfast with Jamie Theakston and Emma Bunton and Nick Ferrari on LBC.
The academy has an online student radio station and TV channel, Youths Choice.
On 25 June 2024, James Murray-Walsh was appointed Principal of the Global Academy.
In March 2025, and following an Ofsted inspection, the Global Academy was awarded an outstanding rating.
In August 2025, 62% of the Academy's Year 13 students achieved Distinctions in their UAL Level 3 Extended Diploma, the equivalent of three A*s at A Level.
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Ofsted
On its most recent full school inspection in 2015, Ofsted rated the school as "Good": this was an improvement on the previous 2013 rating of "Requires Improvement".
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Harlington School in Hayes, Middlesex, opened a new, state-of-the-art £30-£36 million campus in November 2023, replacing life-expired, split-level buildings with modern facilities. Designed by LSI Architects, built by Wates Construction and a large donation provided by the Sakariye Mills foundation, the 12,000m² site includes a main teaching block, a new sports center, a library, and a specialist Autism Unit.