Please note that I will not be holding my Councillor advice surgery at the Gladstone Park Primary School on Saturday 1st January 2011. (Feels weird writing 2011 – actually did write 2010 and had to amend it!). My next Advice Surgery will take place on Saturday 8th January 2011 at the Neasden Library Plus from [...]
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Brent Council is on the road to safety
Brent Council has written to 83 head teachers to ask for their help in promoting road safety outside schools. The Lead Member for Highways and Transportation, Cllr Jim Moher, is sending out the letters to let schools know that Brent will be taking tougher enforcement action on school keep clear markings in the New Year. [...]
An extraordinary woman: Jayaben Desai
Jayaben Desai, aged 77 has passed away. Sadly, I am too young to have experienced her leadership during the 1977 dispute with the Grunwick Film Processing Laboratories but her story is one of true inspiration. The Guardian has published an article conveying her incredible determination and hard work in championing the rights of Asian female workers - LINK.
Wembley parking restrictions on Boxing Day (tomorrow) for Rugby Union match
Saracens face London rivals Wasps in the Aviva Premiership at Wembley Stadium on Sunday 26 December and event day parking restrictions will apply. About the parking scheme Wembley Stadium Protective Parking Scheme Restrictions will apply throughout the Wembley Stadium Event Day Zone from 8am until midnight on main routes, and 10am until midnight in residential [...]
Merry Christmas to all!
Hope all enjoy the festive season. Here’s a Christmas inspired picture from my recent visit to Tesco Wembley (who bizarrely are confusingly no longer calling their store Tesco Brent Park, despite still being located in the same place). Anyhoo, enjoy the reindeers
Happy Birthday Ed Miliband!
It’s Christmas Eve, and that also means that it’s Leader of the Labour Party Ed Miliband’s 41st birthday. So happy birthday to our leader!
Apply now for a Brent primary school places
I’d like to remind parents of children who are due to start at primary or junior school in September 2011 are being reminded that they are running out of time to get their applications in. The deadline for applications for the thousands of children expected to start at a Brent primary next year is 15 [...]
Sentences handed to ChurchEnd dealers
The Willesden and Brent Times is reporting that seven drug dealers, who plied their trade on a notorious street have been sentenced in court. The dealers were arrested as part of Operation Soto which involved an 18-month long undercover operation that targeted drug dealing in Church Road, which is in Dudden Hill Ward. I first [...]
Brent housing benefit campaign update
Brent Council’s head of housing commented on the Government plans last week (30 November) to delay the capping of housing benefit for existing claimants until 2012 saying – “delaying change is not addressing the problem.” Martin Cheeseman, Director of Housing and Community Care, has been at the forefront of a campaign by Brent and London [...]
Brent’s got Christmas all wrapped up
With not long to go until ‘The Big Day’, Brent’s Christmas festivities are in full swing. All across the borough there are events, fairs, activities, concerts and gatherings that are guaranteed to get everyone in the festive mood. Full details of what’s on are available at www.brent.gov.uk/whatson or by telephoning 020 8937 1106. But here’s [...]
