6 out of 10 Brent pupils get offer from their first preference secondary school
Brent Year 6 pupils heard yesterday if they had received an offer of a place from their preferred secondary school. Parents can indicate up to 6 preferences in order. The picture is somewhat...
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Last chance to ensure it's not 'Last Orders' for the Queensbury Pub
Message from Save the Queensbury campaignPlanning officers are recommending that The Queensbury is demolished. A decision will be made on Weds 12th March.If you submitted an objection to the planning...
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Copland students challenge councillors over ARK forced academisation
Copland students on the picket lineAround 400 Copland school students have signed a petition* to Brent councillors over the forced academisation of their school. A headteacher from the Ark stable has...
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Labour campaigns on housing at scene of their 'No Common People' development...
It seems rather inappropriate for Brent Labour Party to set up a stall this Saturday coming outside Sainsbury's in Willeasden Green to campaign over housing. They will be accompanied by Claude Moraes...
View ArticleSufficient places in other schools for Year 7s if Brent free schools fail to...
In response to concerns I expressed about the fate of Year 7 pupils in September 2014 if the free schools they have been offered do not find premises or open in time, Sara Williams, Strategic...
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Crowds turn out to save the Queensbury Pub
Young people make their view known Members of the Brent Planning Committee were left in no doubt how much local people value the Queensbury Pub whene they were greeted be a great crowd on their site...
View ArticleGreen MEP warns on trade deal threat to NHS
Jean Lambert MEP has warned that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) damages democracy, threatens the future of the NHS and should be scrapped.Speaking as negotiations between the...
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All Souls College ordered to disclose Kensal Rise 'binding agreement'
Guest blog by Meg HowarthProtest outside All Souls College, OxfordAll Souls College, Oxford, has been ordered by the Information Commissioner to provide a copy of its Option Agreement - also known as...
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Chalkhill Park gets fenced in
Open AccessFenced InChalkhill residents were surpised last week to see a railing fence going up around their new park. When the park was being planned many residents wanted a fence but were told no...
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Katharine Birbalsingh and the tale of the black and white shoe laces
Michael Gove applauds Katharine Birbalsingh at Tory Party ConferenceParents of Year 7 children who have been offered a place at the Michael Free School have been somewhat bemused by a letter from...
View ArticleNatalie Bennett: Narrow schooling for a failed economic model betrays pupils
This article by Natalie Bennett, leader of the Green Party, was first published yesterday by the Huffington Post, LINK under the title:Education Reform - Why It's Time to Abolish Dictatorial,...
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Community, councillors, Assembly Member and MP rally behind Queensbury Pub...
Making community representations to the Planning CommitteeBrent's Planning Committee will tonight decide whether to accept the officer's recommedation to approve Fairview's planning application,...
View ArticleQueensbury Pub in Willesden Green Saved
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View ArticleHas email planning fraud probe been downgraded?
Guest blog by Meg Howarth It seems that the investigation in to the fake online email support around Andrew Gillick’s original planning application for Kensal Rise Library is now in the hands of Brent...
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EDUCATION NOT FOR SALE: TUC report condemns profiteering from education
... The government's free school and academy programme has cost taxpayers nearly £80m in consultants' fees according to a new TUC report published today.The research – which analyses official...
View ArticleBrilliant 'Gove Must Go' rap by Chester MC
The fight is not just against Michael Gove but against the whole neoliberal Global Education Reform Project (GERM) supported by all three main political parties, nevertheless this is FUN!
View ArticleEmail Fraud: Will the new broom reach into some murky corners?
Guest blogger Meg Howarth continues to press for answersin 'The Case of the Fraudulent Emails'. IKt should be straightforward but...New brooms generally sweep clean, so it's to be hoped that Brent...
View ArticlePeople's Assembly makes itself fit for purpose
Today's recalled People's Assembly Against Austerity began with a warm minute of standing applause for Tony Benn and Bob Crow which seemed to set the tone for a serious but friendly day in which the...
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Ain't no use to sit and do nothing, babe... U3A is all right!
The Kenton and District branch of the University of the Third Age (U3A) will have its first meeting is on Wednesday 26th March, 10am at the Century Bowling Club in Logan Road, Wembley (off Preston...
View ArticleThe Queensbury Pub planning commitee voting record
Readers have asked for details of the Planning Committee vote which saves the Queensbury Pub in Willesden Green from development for the time being. I am grateful to the Kilburn Times for this...
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