Dear editor, I must correct one point in Mr Deckett’s letter (14/2/14): Labour did not close Edgware Hospital’s A and E department. This was closed by the then Conservative Government in an act of spite on 1st April 1997, just a month before we won the General Election on 1st May that year. During that election campaign, Labour promised a review of what we […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour parliamentary candidate for Hendon has questioned the record of local Conservative MPs on the vote to ban smoking in cars in which children are travelling as passengers. Mr Dismore said: “This is a really important advance to help preserve children’s health and to encourage them not to smoke themselves, when they get older. It is a shame that Chipping Barnet’s MP […]
Read moreThe site for the proposed golf club, for which new plans are imminently expected, has been badly flooded. The proposed golf clubhouse site is now under 4ft of water. The Silkstream flood relief scheme has worked. But as planned, by protecting the properties downstream in Edgware by using as water containment areas the farm land on which the golf course […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore, Labour London Assembly member for Barnet and Camden and Labour candidate for Hendon today challenged energy company EDF over their profiteering, during a hearing of the City Hall Environment Committee. Mr Dismore also raised the impact of Government cuts in the “Energy Company Obligation” to fund retro fitting of homes in Barnet to save energy costs, meaning that […]
Read moreHolocaust Memorial Day founder Andrew Dismore joined thousands of people across the country remembering those murdered during genocide by commemorating Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) on 27 January. Andrew attended the official commemoration at Barnet Council, the Holocaust Memorial Day launch at Kings Cross Station with the Deputy Prime Minister and the main commemoration with Ed Miliband at the QEII Centre […]
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