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Current and former campaigns including Save Ealing’s Children’s Centres and Clean Air for Southall and Hayes.

Total: 10 posts

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    Save Ealing Children’s Centres Campaign Update

    Save Ealing Children’s Centres campaign raised over £5,000 in just eight days to begin legal action against Ealing Council to prevent closure of ten and of the borough’s twenty-five children’s centres.

    An audio summary of my …

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    Local Democracy

    Commentary

    Children's Centres

    Ealing Labour

    Features

    Corruption

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    Perceval House W5: Where Local Democracy in Ealing Goes to Die

    The Children’s Centres Crusade

    Auto-generated description: A person is smiling while holding a sign that says NO TO ALL CHILDREN'S CENTRES amidst a crowd.

    Chapter 1: The Art of Political Contradiction

    In the London Borough of Ealing, our elected representatives have perfected something remarkable: the ability to hold completely contradictory public positions …

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    Local Democracy

    Environment

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    Gasworks

    Ealing Labour

    Berkeley Group

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    Corruption

    Pollution

    Weasel Words on Air Quality Monitoring

    Weasel words from Ealing Labour Council, who for six years have shown utter contempt for the health and wellbeing of Southall's schoolchildren forced to live in the toxic stink created by Berkeley Group's unsafe development of the old Gasworks …

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    Questions for Cabinet Leads

    Questions for Cllrs @_petermason, @DrAyshaRaza, @jkblacker, @JasbirAnand2 and @kamnagpal on tackling inequalities, healthy lives, thriving communities, a fairer start, specifically in reference to the ongoing air pollution and odour nuisance …

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    Environment

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    Ealing Labour

    Berkeley Group

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    Strawberries for Pigs?

    Little did we know at the time, but these little strawberries were usually engulfed in a toxic plume of benzene, naphthalene, and god only knows what else.

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    Sensibly, the wife refused to eat them.

    We later discovered that official planning documents …

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    Local Democracy

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    Ealing Labour

    Berkeley Group

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    Exposes

    Southall under Siege: the Neighbours from Hell

    ‘A lack of scrutiny,’ says John Freeman, Regulatory Services Officer at Ealing Council.

    He’s talking about lessons to be learned from the council’s response to the new asphalt plant built in neighbouring Hillingdon borough in 2014.

    ‘We didn’t expect …

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    Berkeley Group

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    Naphthalene Poisoning Risk in People of African and Asian Heritage

    Scientific and medical research shows that people of Asian and African ethnicity are genetically more susceptible to naphthalene poisoning via inhalation.

    @PHE_London representative Robie Kamanyire falsely claimed this is from ingestion only. …

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    Berkeley Group

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    Berkeley's School Governors Board Member

    This has shocked us all to the core.

    @BerkeleyGroupUK's Head of Construction at #SouthallWaterside asked to join the board of governors at the adjacent Blair Peach Primary School.

    This is from the minutes of that meeting (29/11/17). 1/7 …

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    Health Risks of Exposure to Benzene

    'Benzene evaporates easily, and most people can just detect its distinctive smell at concentrations between 2.5 and 5 parts per million (ppm) in air.' (hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg329.… [PDF])

    aresok.org/npg/nioshdbs/c… …

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    Berkeley Group

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    Visit to Southall Waterside (aka The Green Quarter)

    Visit To #SouthallWaterside

    1:40 @damian_leydon 'We had to shut the site for 2 days when it snowed, it was unsafe... it cost me a lot of money to shut the site, but it was the right decision... We all know that ice can be dangerous!' …