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In expressing concern about the lack of government’s plan for policing, National Audit Office says that Home Office has ‘no overarching strategy’ for police. ”The Home Office must urgently address a lack of a plan for policing and “significant gaps” in its understanding of demand for police services” NAO demands. In a separate move, KevinContinue reading “MP proactive in policing matters”

Having calculated his votes, Harrow East MP Bob Blackman asks again what progress has been made in developing the legislation required to remove caste as a protected characteristic from the Equality Act 2010. Replying to his Commons question on 13/09/2018, Victoria Atkins the parliamentary under-secretary of state for the home department, minister for women, didContinue reading “Blackman divisiveness!”

London Mayor Sadiq Khan is investing in frontline policing, but like police and crime commissioners across the country, he is swimming against the tide of deep government cuts, which is why violent crime in the last three years has alarmingly increased in many areas. Harrow West MP Gareth Thomas informs that since Theresa May tookContinue reading “Crime & police numbers in Harrow – matters of concern!”

A variety of Labour supporters attended the event, held on 8 September 2018. Speaking at the event Harrow councillor Pamela Fitzpatrick, Labour parliamentary candidate for Harrow East, said she is a socialist who supports the Labour leader and would do her best to unseat Bob Blackman, MP for Harrow East. Cllr Pamela Fitzpatrick is concernedContinue reading “Unseat Tory MP Bob Blackman”

As Harrow Labour are holding Unseat Bob Blackman event this Saturday, Cllr Ashton, deputy chairman Harrow East Conservative Association, joins the mischievous attempts to oust the democratically elected Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, though somewhat late as people have moved on from the foreign assisted divisive politics of antisemitism. Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) has agreedContinue reading “Ashton late in hitting Corbyn”

Within three days of our reporting water leak outside a Wealdstone high street shop, Affinity Water responded positively and repaired the leak as indicated below (well done Affinity Water). Somewhat surprised, the Delight shopkeeper Virgina said, “Thank you very much for getting a job done so quickly”.  

UPDATE: Cllr Marilyn Ashton now informs us that “the council wanted to impose on them (residents)  double yellow lines without a CPZ – the council has now agreed to delay the double yellow lines until a CPZ can be done”. “So a result here for the good people in Stanmore Park” she said. Stanmore ToryContinue reading “Opposition politics of ‘yellow lines’!”

Joy Morrissey, shortlisted for Tory London mayor candidacy, was asked but failed to condemn Boris Johnson ‘letter-box’ politics. Social media is overflowing with angry responses to Boris Johnson describing Muslim women in Niqab/burkas as looking like “letter boxes” and “bank robbers”. A short and simple analysis by David Lammy MP summarises the Mr Johnson move:Continue reading “Morrissey fails to condemn Johnson”

Having heard about weeks old water leak outside Superdrug, Station Road Harrow, we contacted the Affinity Water who took swift action the next day (the repair work now in progress). We asked the Superdrug manager Terry whether they reported the water leak at some stage: “yes, we did report the leak weeks ago but nothingContinue reading “Timely intervention helped!”

Last council meeting (19 July) awarded Honorary Freedom of the Borough (‘Freedom of Entry to the Borough’) to former Harrow councillor Christine Bednell. Presentation of Scroll was to mark the appreciation of the forty-seven years service by councillor Christine Bednell to the London Borough of Harrow. Since the creation of the London Borough of HarrowContinue reading “Christine Bednell borough services rightly recognised”