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The Harrow Counselling Centre will be closing its doors after 30 years this week. The qualified counsellor of 30 years and sole director Jackie Tancred is retiring and no one has come forward to take over the centre at Greenford Road. The centre that saw over 2000 people during the last 15 years and hasContinue reading “A Harrow counselling service ending”

North-West London GPs are urged against referring patients to hospital specialists and consultants, and some outpatient appointments will be axed, as part of a controversial programme of NHS to be introduced in London. This is in addition to thirty three  procedures covered under PPwT policy for which hospitals have to make individual funding request toContinue reading “Starved NHS hits Harrow health care again”

As the Tory government is in deep crisis, Labour MP for Harrow West Gareth Thomas assures “I am absolutely committed to acting in the national interest, making sure residents voice is heard, and will continue to do everything I can to prevent the Prime Minister from crashing this country out of the EU”. Harrow majorityContinue reading “Gareth Thomas on the ball”

Parliament is to ‘prorogue’ or shut down for five weeks as the prime minister has not got sufficient support in Parliament for his undemocratic No Deal Brexit plans. This will be the longest prorogation of Parliament since 1945. “This is a shocking and scandalous decision by a Prime Minister who, far from seeking to uniteContinue reading “Harrow hits Johnson hard for his plan to shut down parliament”

After closing the walk-in centre at Alexandra Avenue, Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) is all set to end walk-in services at Belmont Health Centre, one of the remaining two such services in the borough. Walk-in Centres and Urgent Care Centres (UCCs) are an alternative to accident and emergency (A&E) departments and treat minor illnesses andContinue reading “Belmont walk-in health services likely to be cut”

Councils in England could make a record surplus of £1bn from parking charges and penalties this year, reports BBC. RAC Foundation director Steve Gooding described £1bn as “quite a windfall from a service that is intended to be all about managing traffic”. Harrow council made £8.310 million in 2017/18 and £9.174 million in 2018/19 whichContinue reading “Is council using parking charges and penalties money well?”

Having calculated votes in his highly marginal Harrow East constituency, divisive MP Bob Blackman works all the time on Indian background voters for political gain, for example, playing Indian-occupied Kashmir game, while doing nothing for Harrow. Equally concerning are few opportunist Tory councillors who are paid £8000+ councillor allowance for the ward welfare but workContinue reading “Blackman not interested in Harrow”

People in Harrow are concerned at the increase in knife crime and rightly feel let down by the government’s failure to provide the resources to deal with this issue, says Harrow councillor Pamela Fitzpatrick, Labour’s Parliamentary candidate for Harrow East (photo). The government has cut the Harrow youth offending team’s funding by £409,130 since2010 –Continue reading “Harrow Youth Offending team funding slashed – Blackman done nothing”

A motion at the Council meeting on 18 July 2019 demands the incoming Tory prime minister to take responsibility for the terrible human cost of his party’s austerity programme and make the necessary investment to properly fund public services. The movers of the motion councillors Graham Henson and Adam Swersky point out that “Austerity hasContinue reading “Harrow challenges Government’s austerity programme”

Harrow council’s Standards Working Group found that Tory councillor Stephen Wright, a Pinner ward colleague of the opposition leader Cllr Paul Osborn and once a close friend of the controversial previous opposition leader Cllr Susan Hall, brought his office and the council into disrepute. Last June, Standards Working Group considered complaints from a female residentContinue reading “A Harrow Tory councillor condemned”