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BBC is set to scrape free TV license for over-75s from June 2020 as Tory government has refused to accept the £745million-a-year cost of the benefit to pensioners last Sunday. Currently, all households with someone aged 75 or over are entitled to a free licence, worth £150.50. Harrow has 17,000 over 75 residents according toContinue reading “Harrow over-75s could lose free TV license”

UPDATED: Local community has worked hard to maintain good relationships amongst the groups of people in Harrow, a most diverse borough. Often Harrow council and police have organised come together events for Harrow communities to show unity against deplorable activities home or abroad that have adverse implications for the community cohesion and relationships locally. ButContinue reading “Divisiveness has no place in Harrow!”

Bob Blackman, MP for Harrow East recycled ongoing wider Brexit chaos by wrongly claiming that Harrow East voted 50/50 for leave or remain. Mr Blackman claimed this while supporting Brexit on TalkRadio where the presenter Alexis Conran pointed out to him that Harrow East is a Remain constituency. In the London Borough of Harrow 64,042Continue reading “Blackman didn’t know which way his constituency voted on Brexit”

Pupils should be banned from taking smartphones into school, the minister for school standards in England Nick Gibb has told the BBC ahead of the government publishing new guidance for schools. Another example of the government showing ignorance of school, teaching and interfering in the life of the school. Schools already have the power toContinue reading “‘Ban pupils mobiles in school’!”

The fleet services by a new contractor was launched at a ceremony held outside the Harrow civic centre. Go Plant Fleet Services will supply and maintain a wide range of machines, including some zero emission vehicles, and equipment for Harrow Council as part of an initial eight-year contract worth more than £25 million which wentContinue reading “New contractor for Council fleet services”

Despite the NHS direction not to ban any medicine from being prescribed that can now be purchased without a prescription, the NHS Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) has issued instructions to GPs not to prescribe these medicines which the GPs are following. The list of medicines to which this guidance applies is here and includes vitaminContinue reading “Impingement upon patient rights”

UPDATE: Consultation for the planning application implied that the characteristic of this historic building would be maintained. This hardly seems to be so considering the buildings are ruthlessly knocked down and only the following tiny section of the original building is left (14/03/2022): ________________________________________________________________________ Asprea 2 Ltd is preparing to submit a planning application forContinue reading “Harrow could lose a cinema and a church! (now they are lost)”

Many council charges are set to increase by 5%, including the burial charges, informs a report to the forthcoming Harrow council cabinet meeting. Also, a new charge is proposed to cover the cost of arrangement fees for customers in care home or own homes who pay for care costs. The charges could be about £100Continue reading “Council to increase some fees and charges”

Population: the population increase from under 250k in 2016 to 270k in 2026 and over 283k by 2036 – widespread but the most dramatic increases in Greenhill and Marlborough because of both the highest number of sites and the largest developments in these wards. Building a Better Harrow strategy: the changes that will occur inContinue reading “Harrow is changing – a mixed picture!”

Very quietly the NHS in North West London has asked GPs and other prescribers to reduce prescribing of medicines and products (under the pretext of promoting ‘self-care’) that can be purchased without a prescription. (List) The medicines patients are now advised to obtain over the counter include: vitamin D, skin creams, nasal sprays (like BeconaseContinue reading “NHS veiled cuts”