Brent Council tonight approved the 2012-13 cuts budget that had previously been passed by the Executive. In addition they approved an amendm...

This week I have been giving out publicity for the Brent People's Assembly along with other activists.  Shoppers in Harlesden High Stre...

EUROPE AGAINST AUSTERITY CONFERENCE Saturday 1st October, London Should Greece default? Has the euro got a future? Is there an alternati...

I am unable to make tonight's Brent Executive Meeting because of another meeting but Wembley Matters readers may be interested in some o...

To support the e-petition against the cuts in street cleaning go to www.brent.gov.uk/epetitions Thanks to BNCTV HERE

The Brent Fightback meeting planned for tomorrow (Tuesday) evening is being postponed. There are other important events that some of Fight...

Officers are to recommend, following the strong responses to the consultation,  that the Council should not proceed with the cuts in school ...

The Dept of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) led by minister John Hayes has reversed its decision to make cuts to funding which would ...

Brent Fightback supporters demonstrated on Kilburn High Road on Saturday morning against Brent Council's proposed cuts in street cleansi...

Brent Fightback are to hold a protest in Kilburn Square, Kilburn High Road from 11am on Saturday. Supporters will be bringing brooms and &...

 With the heebie-jeebies spreading across world stock markets and talk of more failures of both banks and sovereign states it seems apt tha...

I chatted to a couple of street sweepers yesterday who had known nothing about Council plans to cut back on street sweeping with the potenti...

Click on image to enlarge The financial difficulty facing Brent Council is starkly illustrated by this table from the Budget document g...

As Brent Council moves into the second phase of redundancies many of the remaining local government workers are finding themselves taking on...

It was clear as I was chatting during the by-election count on Thursday evening that there is a great deal of disquiet amongst some Labour c...

Caroline Lucas, Green MP and Green Party leader, had the following letter published in the Independent today. “Deficit denier” is a very ug...

The Agenda for the Jan 17th Executive has just been published. It includes Decommissioning of the Mental Health Community N...

Brent Council call it the 'Libraries Transformation Project' - I prefer to call it the Libraries Closure Programme as it involves t...