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A local councillor Pamela Fitzpatrick (photo), Director Harrow Law Centre and Labour parliamentary candidate for Harrow East, is delighted that a key policy of the Government’s Hostile Environment policy has been declared unlawful in a ruling handed down by the Court of Appeal today. In April 2013 the Coalition Government introduced a host of regulationsContinue reading “Government defeated in disability benefit appeal, credit to Harrow Law Centre!”

Well publicised Visit My Mosque event in Harrow last Sunday was widely attended, including by community leaders, clergy and many Labour councillors. This could only be good for community cohesion and togetherness. However, concerns have been expressed that the event was hardly attended by the Tory councillors. Given the possibility that Tory councillors might haveContinue reading “‘Visit My Mosque’ event well attended but some missing”

Both Labour and Liberal Democrats parliamentary candidates for Harrow East assert that the sitting MP Bob Blackman position is very shaky in this marginal constituency because of his undesirable doings and lack of interest in Harrow matters. Declining support for him became obvious at the last general election when despite all his divisive moves toContinue reading “Blackman challenged!”

Some years back when the previous chief executive Michael Lockwood rejoined the council and accelerated Harrow regeneration programme, the Harrow Monitoring Group suggested study of how Brent attracted the developers and addressed the social housing shortage. He listened and just in four years the Harrow that struggled to attract investors is now bubbling with developmentsContinue reading “Developments around Harrow Town Centre”

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”