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Following our report regarding Councillor Hall’s non-declaration of the pecuniary interest, we now understand that the Harrow Conservative Group Leader, Cllr Hall, is the subject of an investigation by the Metropolitan Police. The police are investigating allegations that Cllr Hall failed to adhere to Harrow Council’s pecuniary and non pecuniary declaration and propriety rules forContinue reading “Cllr Hall under police investigation”

Cllr Hall shows no remorse:  she is pleading everywhere that she has not really done anything wrong.  However, what really matters is the police verdict – watch this space for further update! 19/4/16 Political backlash: Cllr Hall now leads a highly divided group as 42.31% members of her group did not vote for her atContinue reading “Cllr Hall under police investigation”

Following our report regarding Cllr Hall’s non-declaration of the pecuniary interest and drawing authorities attention to investigate the breach, watch this space for a follow up news soon. In presenting a regeneration-specific Wealdstone petition, Cllr Hall said: “It will damage the entire Wealdstone business community”. The petition was debated at the council meeting but CllrContinue reading “Hall’s non-declaration of pecuniary interest – follow up news soon”

We hear that as Cllr David Perry is passing on the baton to a new leader of the council, the opposition should also have fresh leadership to put behind a sort of ‘Punch and Judy’ attitude at the council and  to work productively with the administration in the interest of effectively serving the community. TheContinue reading “Council on the brink of fresh political start”

Cllr David Perry is to step down as Leader of Harrow Council this May saying “It is now the right time for a new Leader to take up the baton and build on the foundations I have laid”. He became the leader after regaining the council in 2014. The new leader could either be CllrContinue reading “Harrow council leadership change”

While most of the state secondary schools in Harrow now have academy status, a vast majority of primary schools have not. We hear concerns about the government plans to turn every state school in England into an academy – many teachers from Harrow were at the recent academy protest in London and of course atContinue reading “Academisation”

With reference to the council’s planned regeneration of Wealdstone, Cllr Hall, reportedly said: “This (Premier Banqueting) is a very important business, this will be harmful to a lot of people who work for that business. This is their business, their livelihood put on the line here. She said Premier Banqueting, in Canning Road, employs aboutContinue reading “Hall in breach of councillor’s code of conduct?”

While the Harrow West MP (Lab) is worried that the walk-in centres at Alexandra Avenue and the Pinn Medical Centre could be handed to a private company because of the government’s new rules, Mr Thomas has taken no notice of the local concerns about the shaky confidence in and potential conflict of interest at theContinue reading “Ongoing concerns about the potential lack of transparency at Harrow CCG!”

Harrow East Tory MP Bob Blackman voted for the cut as the House of Lords has been unable to stop a planned £30-a-week cut to disability benefits forced through by Government MPs. The cut will see people receiving Employment and Support Allowance go from claiming £103-a-week to £73-a-week, and will affect people who are deemedContinue reading “Blackman voted to take £30 per week off a disabled person”

Nationally, nearly half of social care services inspected by the Care Quality Commission in the past year were found to be failing the frail and vulnerable, in what relatives and experts say is a symptom of the growing financial crisis in the sector. There is also growing evidence of the crisis having an effect onContinue reading “Financial crisis in social care sector”