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No frontline fire cuts in next year’s budget

Today Boris Johnson’s plans to close 12 fire stations and axe 18 fire engines were set back. The move came after members of the London Fire Authority accepted that the 2013/14 budget will not include cuts to frontline services. A motion proposed by Labour Assembly Member Andrew Dismore, and passed by today’s London Fire Authority meeting, asked that no frontline […]

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“Secretive” Whittington Hospital plans condemned

Local Labour London Assembly Members have written to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt about plans to downsize Whittington Hospital. Condemning the plans to sell off parts of the hospital buildings and land as “secretive”, Jennette Arnold OBE AM, Andrew Dismore AM and Joanne McCartney AM have asked the Health Minister how the hospital can continue to provide the excellent service that […]

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LA Fitness must reinstate consumer whistle-blower Terry Messenger

Andrew Dismore Labour London Assembly Member for Barnet has today written to LA Fitness Chief Executive Martin Long to express his outrage at the victimisation of consumer whistle-blower Terry Messenger following articles published by the Times Series newspaper group. Mr Dismore said: “LA Fitness’s treatment of Terry Messenger is one of the most outrageous examples of consumer victimisation I have […]

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UK Statistics Authority asked to investigate Boris’s police figures

Following Friday’s revelation that Boris Johnson’s policing figures were not actual figures but had been ‘adjusted’, local Labour Assembly Member Andrew Dismore  has called into question the accuracy of the information given to residents on the number of police officers in Camden and Barnet Andrew Dismore AM is today backing calls for the UK Statistics Authority’s opinion as to whether […]

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