School governors are the largest group of unpaid volunteers in the country and their role has become increasingly onerous with successive go...

Brilliant rousing stuff from  Christine Blower, General Secretary of the NUT, on the fight against acadsemies and free schools. She was spea...

Brent Council is consulting on a Supplementary Planning Document for the future use of the Brent Town Hall once the new Civic Centre is open...

Responding to reports that Transport Secretary Justine Greening will announce the first phase of work on the High Speed 2 rail link toda...

The Brent and Kilburn Times LINK is reporting that a allegation against Cllr Ann John, leader of Brent Council is being investigated by cou...

Protest against threatened youth centre closures last year  In January 2010 Barry Gardiner MP accused the the Brent Council (Lib-Dem and ...

This morning's Start the Week on Radio 4 had an interesting discussion on austerity and future economic models with an airing of New Eco...

In the old days of the Soviet Union there were a select group of journalists called  Kremlinologists whose job it was to analyse Soviet jour...

Following the November housing crisis meeting at the Town Hall which was organised by Barry Gardiner MP for North Brent, Jacky Peacock has c...

Willesden Old Library - scheduled for demolition  Following my posting on the proposed Willesden Green redevelopment several people have ...

Michael Gove bores the pants off Haberdasher pupils. I would have run out screaming...

Click to enlarge  Michael Gove is trying to steamroller primary schools into applying to become academies but is encountering opposition ...

Brent Area Consultative Forums start again next week. Council leaders will be presenting their budget proposals which will inevitabl...

Shahrar Ali, Green Party Assembly  candidate for Brent and Harrow, has a letter in the Brent and Kilburn Times this week criticising Navin S...

The report (LINK) on the Willesden Green Library Redevelopment to go before the Brent Executive on Monday January 16th recommends that the...

I don't take advertising on this blog but I am posting this as I think this job is important and socially useful. Library Homework ...

The leader and deputy leader of Brent Council are due to tour Area Consultative Forums later this month to discuss the forthcoming 2012-13 b...

Detroit Library Branch Closure Protested Again: MyFoxDETROIT.com Brent SOS Library campaigners have sent a solidarity message to fellow ca...

Big rises in allotment rents caused a furore last year LINK and allottees have just received notice that they will rise again in April 2012...

Kamila Shamsie is the author of five novels, most recently “Burnt Shadows,” which was short-listed for the Orange Prize for Fiction. She g...

Preston Library campaigners are continuing the struggle for Brent's Six Libraries to remain open and have issued the following bulletin:...

This is an edited version of an article in the Winter 2011 issue of  Partnership News from Brent Housing Partnership: Brent Council is to ...

Wembley Matters, launched in May 2009,  had its 70,000th page view this morning. I would like to thank you all for your support and encourag...

From Insight - Brent Council staff magazine With the future of Willesden Green Library in the spotlight and questions remaining over the...

Click to enlarge With Brent schools exploring options for various forms of academies, including the Cooperative Trust model; and followin...

The library foyer Brent Council this morning removed the hoarding, known locally as the Wall of Shame, from around Preston Library. Alth...

The Agenda for the January 16th meeting of the Brent Executive should be available next weekend and should include the report on the propose...

A spirited anti-academy campaign. More in 2012? A repeated theme of my postings on academies on this blog has been the lack of democratic...