In my new capacity as a member of the Police and Crime Committee I questioned the Mayor, Deputy Mayor for Policing, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner and deputy Commissioner, over the ‘flatlining’ of public confidence in the Metropolitan Police, during the City Hall Police and Crime Committee session on the police annual report. I raised a series of issues, […]
Read moreDear Editor The strain on our local fire service, post the closure of Belsize Fire Station shut by Mayor Boris Johnson, was brought into sharp focus by the series of fires on Saturday 4th July, including the ‘person reported’ incident in Belmont Street: the address of this fire was previously part of the now closed Belsize Fire Station’s ground. […]
Read moreConservative Barnet Council is guilty of hypocrisy over its planning application for a new office block for council staff as part of the Grahame Park development. My formal objection to the scheme states: ‘Local residents will be inundated with extra traffic and parking issues. ‘My primary objection is therefore around the lack of parking provision for the large number […]
Read moreDear editor, Runaway housing costs in the capital are massively pushing up the number of children living in poverty official statistics showed recently. Official measurements of child poverty, which exclude housing costs, suggest that in London some 300,000 children live in poverty. When you add in housing costs however the number rockets by 400,000 – meaning almost three […]
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