Showing posts with label Wembley Matters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wembley Matters. Show all posts
Monday, 5 August 2024

UPDATED: Organising in process to defend Harrow from right-wing disruption

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 Back in 2009 the Harrow and Brent community organised a united stand against an advertised Islamophobic attack on Harrow Mosque. In the eve...
Tuesday, 18 June 2024

Democracy in Brent – Council and Leader responses to my open email.

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 Guest post by Philip Grant in a personal capacity Martin reports Cabinet’s (in)action over my efforts to get 28 May minutes corrected.   ...
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Wednesday, 14 February 2024

Wembley Matters over the next few weeks

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 Wembley Matters will be updated only occasionally over the nest few weeks. Comments will be updated when possible so leave any urgent news ...
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Friday, 26 November 2021

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR: Wembley Matters launches a new forum for Brent residents

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Local newspapers can provide a lively forum for residents to express their views and contribute to local democracy.  Unfortunately the Kilbu...
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Tuesday, 15 September 2020

Thank you from 'chicken shop basement' blogger

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Chicken Shop Basement Update   Following an update posted on Wembley Matters earlier I'd like to thank the readers and responders of Wem...
Sunday, 5 April 2020

Tributes pour in for Indro Sen - great CNWL lecturer and trade unionist

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Former secondary maths teacher, primary school governor,  College of North West London lecturer,  and most importantly trade unionist, I...
Tuesday, 3 March 2020

Councillors move to improve Brent Council's scrutiny process

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Scrutiny is more than just a band! Following my article about failures in Brent Council scrutiny processes LINK local resident and W...
Tuesday, 13 August 2019

Brent Planners seek further information from McDonalds on McDelivery service at Wembley Asda - cafe now closed and gutted

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The Planning Officer dealing with the application for a McDonald's restaurant in Wembley Asda has replied to Wembley Matters' query...
Thursday, 1 November 2018

Brent Council's 'deep and sincere regret' over Cassie's adult social care experience & commitment to learn from the case

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Following on from Tuesday's story (see below) about 'Cassie' an adult on the autistic spectrum, who contracted HIV while in the...
Friday, 20 July 2018

Wembley Matters off-line

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I am going into hospital for an for an operation  so Wembley Matters will be off-line for a while. I have certainly had cause to appreciate...
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Sunday, 28 January 2018

Butt and Brent Momentum at loggerheads over HDV & academisation

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Cllr Butt has co-signed the letter criticising the Labour NEC over their intervention on the Haringey Development Vehicle LINK . That, comb...
Monday, 13 November 2017

Alleged political interference in Brent's planning decision making process brought to attention of Monitoring Officer

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  From Philip Grant (first published as a comment on Andrew Linnie's psot) Further to Andrew Linnie's post...
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Wednesday, 19 July 2017

Normal service will be restored as soon as possible

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Regular readerswill have noticed a lack of postings in the last week or so.  This is not because  there are not Brent issues to be publicis...
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Wednesday, 22 March 2017

Brent CEO confirms Cllr Butt's right to speak on Wembley Stadium Planning Application tomorrow

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Carolyn Downs, Brent Council CEO, has responded to my request for clarification on the Council Leader’s right to sp...
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Thursday, 4 August 2016

Brent's Annual Governance Statement: Public money safeguarded & properly accounted for?

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A Wembley Matters reader writes: I came across the attached document tucked away in the "Transparency in Brent" section of the Co...
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Tuesday, 24 May 2016

Get to know some of your Brent local history with Philip Grant

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Wembley Matters readers, particularly in Sudbury and Kingsbury, may be interested in two local history events taking p...
Thursday, 31 December 2015

A New Year greeting to Wembley Matters readers, from a contributor

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Sunday, 8 November 2015

Wembley Matters: Normal service resumed

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I have been away on the North Norfolk coastal path on a personal version of Autumn Watch. There's lots of catching up to do but meanwhi...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

Time to ask if Butt is fit to hold office?

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The Kilburn Times has published an article LINK on the out of court settlement by Brent Council in the Rosemarie Clarke racial discriminat...
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