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It can only be good that Harrow council scrutiny committee commissioned a review into preventing youth violence as the fear of this crime is high  in the borough. The purpose of the review was to investigate how the council work might contribute to reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour. While the rationale for the reviewContinue reading “Harrow youth violence scrutiny review lacks rigour”

Transport for London is proposing some changes to the bus network in Harrow town centre, particularly between Harrow bus station and Northwick Park Hospital. They are seeking views on the proposed changes to routes 186, H9, H10 and H14. Their proposals are to: Withdraw route 186 between Harrow bus station and Northwick Park Hospital. RouteContinue reading “Proposed Harrow bus route changes”

Harrow East Labour becomes the first CLP (constituency Labour party) to send the Momentum backed  Labour Against Racism And Fascism motion – End Immigration Detention – to the Labour conference 2019. The motion asks an incoming Labour Government to end the Detention Estate and adopt a community-led response for migrants that challenges xenophobic sentiment andContinue reading “Harrow East Labour supports ending immigration detention”

Councillor Marilyn Ashton, a planning expert who has been kept away from the planning committee by her successive group leaders since her return to the council in 2011, grumbles that the Harrow Labour administration is not providing real opportunities for a cross-party work on regeneration programme. Delivering action plan for the Heart of Harrow OpportunityContinue reading “Ashton V Ferry!”

The Labour is the big winner in Harrow in the European Parliament elections, securing 16,312 votes (Lib Dem: 14,116 Brexit Party: 12,004 Green: 5187): source Tories with 9814 vote are in the fourth place and in London no longer have any MEPs having lost the two seats they won in the 2014 European Parliament elections.Continue reading “Labour tops EU votes in Harrow”

Councillor Kareema Marikar,  ex-Harrow mayor, breached the code of conduct by bringing the council into disrepute, finds the council’s Standards Working Group. Cllr Marikar visited high ranking officers of the Sri Lankan Army during her trip last year and posted photos of her meeting in which she is wearing the mayoral chain. “She conducted herselfContinue reading “Outgoing Harrow mayor found in breach of code of conduct”

Soon after the European Parliamentary elections, Labour is likely to start process to select their London assembly candidate for Brent and Harrow as Navin Shah, the sitting assembly member, has seemingly decided to step down (not announced in this window). Navin Shah has ably retained the seat since 2008 when he defeated Tory member BobContinue reading “Labour to look for Brent & Harrow GLA candidate?”

The Trussell Trust which runs food banks in Wealdstone and South Harrow reports a 24 per cent increase in food banks demand in Harrow. Between April 2018 and March 2019, 2,617 three-day emergency food supplies were given out in Harrow. The emergency supplies are nutritionally balanced, non-perishable tinned and dried foods that have been donatedContinue reading “Increased food banks demand in Harrow – ‘scandalous’”

The recent Harrow People magazine informs: demand for the adult social care is going up and the council tax is rising because of it. The client group for this aspect of the care includes people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, sensory impairment, and mental health or physical conditions. With the rise of the council taxContinue reading “Adult social care – Harrow struggling!”

If there was ever a much-loved and vital service that told the story of the NHS funding crisis in north-west London, it was the walk-in centre at Alexandra Avenue closed by the Harrow Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) that has been put into special measures because its forecast deficit of £40 million, said Gareth Thomas MPContinue reading “Harrow health care concerns raised at the Commons”