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World Teachers’ Day: Empowering teachers, building sustainable societies
From Education InternationalOn 5 October, World Teachers’ Day, Education International, with its affiliates and partners worldwide, will highlight the new 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals,...
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Your chance to share in Sudbury’s history
Guest blog by Philip GrantNext Saturday, 10thOctober, everyone in the Sudbury area of Brent will have the chance to discover what an interesting place they live in. For months, local people from the...
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National Gallery strikers to return to work after dispute agreement reached
The strike was widely supportedFrom PCS Press ReleaseOur members at the National Gallery voted unanimously today to return to work after we reached an agreement to end the dispute. The news comes...
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End this wretched sniping at Barham Library volunteers
This comment by Gaynor Lloyd was submitted in response to the comments on Wembley Matters' story on the decision abut to be made by Trustees on the organisation to be granted the lease on the Barham...
View ArticleWill Affordable Housing Position Statement address Planning Committee's...
The Planning Committee of July 23rd (the meeting where the Minutes were mysteriously unpublished for weeks before pressure finally got them unearthed or created LINK ) considered a wide range of...
View ArticleBarham Park library decision tomorrow - meeting open to the public
The meeting of the Barham Park Trust that will decide whether the Barham library campaign will be granted the lease on the Lounge for a community library takes place tomorrow (Thursday) at 3pm at...
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Preston Library urges support for Barham campaigners at this afternoon's meeting
FromPreston Library CampaignFrom this Saturday, we'll be showing films in the library every Saturday night at 7.30. These films are free for members of the library (you can join at the door), and we...
View ArticleBarham library campaigners win 15 year lease on Barham Lounge for community...
Barham library campaigners cracked open a bottle of champagne this afternoon when Cllr Michael Pavey used the chair's casting vote to award a 15 year lease to the campaign for the Barham Lounge.This...
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Neasden road works to impact on Wembley road and bus travel for 6 months
Traffic has been very heavy along Blackbird Hill/Forty Lane/ Forty Avenue during peak hours since new schools have opened in Wembley and they are still not operating to full capacity.Now roadworks at...
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Democracy for Sale?
As Brent Council prepares to celebrate Local Democracy Week LINKguest blogger Scott Bartle raises some pertinent questions about the role of money in national elections.
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Unison challenges Barnet Council's library devastation
'The Thick of It' actor Rebecca Front supports Barnet library campaignersFrom Barnet UnisonOn Friday 2 October 2015, Barnet Council published their devastating report on the future of the library...
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Have your say at Wembley Connects on Monday: policing, Children's Centres,...
A local resident remarked to me the other day what a mess the area around Wembley Stadium was looking with hastily thrown up plastic and steel multi-storey blocks jostling for space being a far cry...
View ArticleBrent Youth Service cuts & out-sourcing will see at least two Youth Centres...
A cut of almost 70% in Brent Council's youth service budget (from £1,314,000 in 2015-16 to £414,394 in 2016-17) will see the service out-sourced and based mainly at Roundwood myplace Centre in...
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Registering children as British Citizens - training session Tuesday 13th October
This is an excellent project which tries to circumvent some of the nastier aspects of the UK government's policies regarding the children of EEA and other nationalities whose parents have been granted...
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Green's Lucas and Jones take opposing positions on EU Referendum
It was announced yesterday that Green MP Caroline Lucas is joining the board of the EU 'In' campaign. This came shortly after it was reported on Friday that Green peer and retiring London Assembly...
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Three passionate voices on the education crisis
I tweeted the above open letter, first published in the TES, yesterday on both @WembleyMatters and @GreenEdPolicy and it has been retweeted many time, including by the writer and broadcaster Michael...
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Whose Wembley? Is Quintain delivering for local people?
The PR and the actuality of the regeneration of the area around Wembley by Quintain Estates (taken over by a US private finance company in July sometimes seem at odds.On the ground as the video shows...
View ArticleBrent Coucil and TfL must take action on dangerous Wembley Asda junction
Watch this video carefully and you will see a woman with a push chair trying to cross Forty Lane at the junction with the Asda slip road and King's Drive, Wembley Park.The volume of traffic means that...
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Corbyn and Council Cuts: Time for a united resistance?
Local councils are currently drawing up their budgets for 2016-17 with the accompanying cuts to accommodate the cuts in local government funding. Council leaders across the political spectrum have...
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