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Southall Stories - Investigative Journalism

Digging the dirt, unearthing the truth

Posts in: Investigations

Investigations into local community, democracy and policy issues.

Total: 8 posts

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    Investigations

    Local Democracy

    Environment

    Commentary

    Features

    Health

    Pollution

    Response to Ealing's Air Quality Strategy and Action Plan

    Ealing Council’s draft Air Quality Strategy is a 64 page document together with a 40 page Action Plan, and the consultation period runs until 30 January 2023. It’s taken me the best part of six weeks, all my spare time over Christmas and …

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    Investigations

    Local Democracy

    Commentary

    Ealing Labour

    Features

    Housing

    Corruption

    The Property Lobby: the Hidden Reality behind the Housing Crisis in Ealing

    There will be 14,800 new homes in 23 new developments in Southall over the next few years. 14 units over 10 stories high, and 7 over 20 stories high. Up to 40,000 new residents (and their cars)!

    One third of the total new developments in the whole of …

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    Investigations

    Local Democracy

    Commentary

    Ealing Labour

    Berkeley Group

    Features

    Corruption

    Ealing Monopoly

    Who wants to know more about how, twelve years ago, an exclusive group of rich, mostly white, middle aged men in suits planned to take advantage of the financial crash and austerity politics to sell Ealing's public land and buildings for profit …

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    Investigations

    Campaigns

    Local Democracy

    Environment

    Gasworks

    Ealing Labour

    Berkeley Group

    Health

    Pollution

    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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    Investigations

    Local Democracy

    Commentary

    Ealing Labour

    Housing

    Look at these Bricks!

    Look at these bricks!

    Is 2500:

    A) The year the new cinema in Ealing will finally be opened to the public?

    B) The price of a return flight to Nice airport and five nights in Cannes?

    C) The number of genuinely affordable homes to be built …

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    Investigations

    Campaigns

    Environment

    Gasworks

    Berkeley Group

    Research

    Health

    Ethics

    Pollution

    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. …

    Investigations

    Campaigns

    Environment

    Community

    Gasworks

    Berkeley Group

    Health

    Corruption

    Pollution

    Exposes

    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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    Investigations

    Campaigns

    Environment

    Gasworks

    Berkeley Group

    Health

    Corruption

    Pollution

    Exposes

    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!' …