Chief Finance Officer's Briefing Note on RSG Four Year Funding Settlement
Following postings on this blog and thr Brent Conservative Group's attempt to get the issue debated, Conrad Hall, Brent Council's Chief Finance Officer has issued this briefing note:Four year funding...
View ArticleBrent Kilburn Connects to discuss air pollution, proposed parliamentary...
Wednesday, 21 September 20167pmLondon Interfaith Centre, 125 Salusbury Road NW6 6RG(Modern building with glass frontage and dome on top between Queens Park and Brondesbury Park stations) 206 bus ir...
View ArticleParents pledge to fiight for retention of Granville Plus Nursery School
Parents of children at Granville Plus Nursery School in South Kilburn are petitioning Brent Council over plans for the redevelopment of the site on which the nursery, including a recent purpose built...
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Confused.pomme?
A Wembley Matters reader has sent me a photograph, taken in Kingsbury yesterday morning. He remarks:This year is the first time, in over 25 years, that I have seen ripening apples and apple blossom on...
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Amy Johnson - free local history talk at Kingsbury Library - Wednesday...
In a further example of Brent Libraries working with local voluntary organisations Philip Grant will be speaking about another famous former Brent resident on Wednesday 28th September:In 1929 a 26...
View ArticleCommons Education Committee to investigate primary SATs tests
From the TES LINKMPs are to investigate how this year's new tougher Sats tests have affected primary schools.This was the first year that ten and 11-year-olds took the new tougher tests in reading,...
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Slippery Standards meeting on Butt complaint
Cllr Muhammed ButtI was unable to attend last night's Brent Standard's Committee Meeting last night as I was chairing a school governing body meeting elsewhere. It appears I missed a fascinating...
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Fancy some lopping in the woods at the Welsh Harp on Saturday?
This is the work that will be undertaken tomorrow:1. Cutting back hawthorn and blackthorn with sheers and loppers along the path to the education centre so children do not have to walk on the road....
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Alarm bells should ring! 'NW London NHS 'Transformation Plan' to be discussed...
From Brent Patient Voice LINKFor the first time since the local NHS and Council bureaucracies started drawing up the NW London Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) in January of this year, they...
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Soil isn’t sexy but we need to dig in and help conserve it
I am just back from a few days away in Cambridge and the surrounding countryside so this press release from Green MEP Molly Scott Cato has come at a time when I am reflecting on what I saw. It is not...
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'WE ARE THE LIONS' Grunwick40 Exhibition opening soon. Can you help?
From Grunwick 40We are the Lions Exhibition October 19th 2016 to March 26th 2017Open Monday to Friday 9am to 8pm; Saturday Sunday 10 am to 5pmThe Library at Willesden GreenForty years ago a group of...
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'Change of culture' needed to ensure positive use of self-directed mental...
The Brent Health and Wellbeing Board on Thursday 6th October has a heavy agenda but the report on Brent Mental Health User Group's (BUG) research into the use of self-directed support is well worth a...
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After Paris Agreement ratified by EU bloc, Green MEPs call for united...
EU Environment Ministersmet today in Brussels and announced that the bloc has agreed to ratify the Paris Agreement on climate change. The UK’s Green MEPs have welcomed the news and are calling on the...
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Poo, pavements & potholes - hot topics for Wembley Connects on Wednesday
A pavement 'repair' in King's Drive, WembleyFly-tipping in Chalkhill
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Education the focus for campaigning this weekend
The National Union of Teachers will be out in force this weekend campaigning for the best education for all children and arguing for investment in schools and measures to reduce child poverty and...
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The Great Grunwick Strike - Film & Guest Speaker Saturday October 8th
From Preston Library CampaignDoors open at 7.15, and the programme will start at 7.30. Our films are free, but we ask for donations which help us to run the library. Preston Community Library is in...
View ArticleLabour stifles the anti-cuts movement
A year ago I published a piece on Wembley Matters which asked what Jeremy Corbyn, then the new Labour leader, would do about local council cuts. I drew attention to the contradiction that under him...
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'Appalling' Brent STP engagement meeting short on detail and understanding
From the official video LINKThe following item is published with the permission of Eric Leach who publishes an occasional Newsletter researched, written and edited by a group of concerned residents in...
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