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Seemingly Labour candidate Maxine Henson is all set to comfortably win at the Roxbourne Ward by-election, called due to the sad death of Cllr Bob Currie. Labour’s share of votes at the ward was 31% higher than Tories at the last council election. Added to this, Tories have been consistently facing defeats under Cllr Hall’sContinue reading “Would Tories be punished again at a Harrow by-election?”

(Click the play button to play the video, fullscreen play by clicking the fullscreen button – bottom right – last ) Buckingham College in Hindes Road, Harrow, moved to this prime location in 1937. The independent school, dramatically closed last year, served pupils well – like 79 per cent A* to C grades in GCSE.Continue reading “Sad ending of a seat of learning!”

Thai Pongal is a harvest festival, equivalent to Thanksgiving, held every year on the first day of the Tamil month. The event on 5 February 2017, organised by Harrow Tamil Community Association included cultural performances and refreshments.

While nationally Tory party asks for supporting the “One Nation movement in Britain”, Harrow East Conservative Association has selected Lakshmi Kaul as a candidate for the diverse and peaceful Queensbury ward for 2018 council election. Apparently an Indian national, she is a fierce Indian occupied Kashmir activist, showing lack of confidence in our democratic process.Continue reading “Why Harrow Tories selected a ‘divisive’ candidate?”

Like some other London councils, Harrow uses opportunities to raise funds by offering its premises to film-makers on a paid basis. Scenes of the Entebbe hijack film, filmed in UK and Malta, have been shoot at the civic centre – filming in Malta is allowed after original was banned 39 years ago. Areas across HarrowContinue reading “Filming at Civic Centre benefits council budget”

Dear Mr Hunt Surely by now you know the professionals and public outcry about the NHS crisis, including that ten-minute GP consultation standard is inadequate for patient care. In view of your various and rather confusing statements about the GP work, we are not quite sure what exactly you expect the GPs to do, butContinue reading “Open letter to the Secretary of State for Health”

Councillor Bob Currie’s bold fight against cancer came to an end – he sadly passed away on 14th January. Bob represented Roxbourne ward on Harrow Council for almost 20 years, was Harrow mayor in 2001 and served as Portfolio Holder for Housing. He was humble and enjoyed working with the community. Harrow Monitoring Group hasContinue reading “Councillor Bob Currie passed away”

It can only be good that Harrow is intending to bid for up to £13million to become a Sport England pilot area to attract local people who don’t already do much physical activity. Harrow has higher proportion of inactivity and performs low in required levels of physical activity (including active travel) compared to the nationalContinue reading “Harrow people do less physical activity!”

How very interesting that a complaint has been made to chief executive of Harrow Council about the conduct of last cabinet meeting and the leader of the council who was chairing it, knowing well that the chief executive has no jurisdiction over either of these matters. Also interesting that while the call out by aContinue reading “Last cabinet meeting caused ‘storm in teacup’!”

While Harrow primary schools are doing well against the national benchmarks overall, there are significant variations in the performance of the schools. The primary (key stage 2) results announced this week show big gaps. For example, 90 percent of pupils meeting the expected standard at a top school and only 28 percent at the lowerContinue reading “Harrow primary schools – mixed performance!”