Thursday, September 22, 2005

Getting Slaughtered (corny puns volume 2)

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A puncture in my bike’s front tyre meant I was late getting to a PCT away day in Teddington. I’m generally cynical about away days, which to...
Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Wilkinson Sword

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Following yesterday’s good news for Park Royal, I was sad to hear today of the closure of the local Wilkinson Sword factory. Although, I und...
Tuesday, September 20, 2005

Investment in Park Royal

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Most of Park Royal - London’s largest business park - within our Borough lies within East Acton ward. This means that I have more contact wi...
Monday, September 19, 2005

Development and Design

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The night of the monthly Labour Group Meeting, preceded as ever by a number of presentations. This included presentations by each of the fou...
Sunday, September 18, 2005

Eric Sykes and East Acton

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For some unfathomable reason, tonight's Melvin Bragg documentary on Eric Sykes failed to mention his link to East Acton. In Eric's l...
Saturday, September 17, 2005

Africa Comes to Acton

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I've complained for years that the Council's free magazine 'Around Ealing' has never been delivered to the East Acton Estate...
Thursday, September 15, 2005

East Acton Steering Group

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Went to a meeting of the East Acton Steering Group at Old Oak School. This is a joint body that unites Councillors, residents associations a...
Wednesday, September 14, 2005

Residents take on Virgin

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I chair the Audit Committee of the Primary Care Trust, and this morning attended a very interesting meeting with the other Audit Chairs of W...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Virgin on the ludicrous (corny puns volume 1)

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The twenty first anniversary of the day I was first elected to represent East Acton – 13th September 1984. Spent the morning at the Virgin P...
Monday, September 12, 2005

I'd rather have been at the Oval

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Performance and Audit Panel tonight concentrated on scrutinising the Council’s performance on collecting debts (particularly social services...
Saturday, September 10, 2005

Housing

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I organised a special advice surgery this morning, because a constituent needed to see me urgently about a housing problem. East Acton doesn...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

Licensing and Kitchen Waste

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Spent most of the day with one eye – or at least two ears - on the Oval. In the evening, we held our monthly all-members Labour Party meetin...
Wednesday, September 07, 2005

Primary Care Trust

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My main public role outside of East Acton is as non-executive director of Ealing Borough NHS Primary Care Trust (PCT). Today was our Board m...
Tuesday, September 06, 2005

From Alcohol to Water

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A useful meeting today with colleagues to plan next year’s “Responsible Host Scheme” in the Borough. This is an scheme which LB Ealing pione...
Saturday, September 03, 2005

North Acton Issues

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Advice surgery this morning – given the size of East Acton ward, we hold five advice surgeries every month. Today’s was at St Gabriel’s Chur...
Friday, September 02, 2005

You're never far from an Acton connection

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Shameless Acton partisan that I am, I used part of my summer break to visit a couple of places of Actonian interest. Most parochially, whils...
Thursday, September 01, 2005

From Dead Man's Alley to Pensions

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Two varying meetings tonight, that show the diversity of the work of a Councillor. Firstly, the very local issue of Dead’s Man’s Alley” on t...