Conservative Mayor of London, Boris Johnson is continuing to force through his closure of Belsize and Clerkenwell fire stations. The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) will meet next week to vote on the Mayor’s plans. The documents for that meeting – which were published yesterday – shows the Mayor has backed down on the closure of two fire […]
Read moreLabour London Assembly Member for Barnet and Camden Andrew Dismore AM is demanding an urgent investigation into the near miss on the Northern Line on Monday evening. The incident involved two trains which reportedly narrowly averted a head-on collision between Mill Hill East and Finchley Central. The RMT Union have released a statement saying that it was the quick actions […]
Read moreI promised to keep you up to date about developments over the proposal for Avanti School to move into Broadfields and the Fairway. As you know, I raised the issue with London Mayor Boris Johnson at the last Mayor’s Question Time, when it was clear he had not read my letter to him about the issue, and when he insulted local people […]
Read morePublished: 09 July 2013 – London Evening Standard For the past four years, the project to build a North-South high-speed line has looked as solid a bet as Andy Murray eventually winning Wimbledon. Despite the high cost and the protests of well-organised objectors in the Chilterns, HS2 seemed to have everything going for it. First proposed by the Tories in opposition, […]
Read moreAndrew Dismore has today welcomed the announcement from the Department for Education that they are to perform a u-turn on enforcing a prescribed list of languages that could be taught in Primary Schools. Stephen Twigg MP, Labours shadow Education Secretary told the Board of Deputies of British Jews in March that under Labour the plan would be scrapped. In March, […]
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