Hammersmith & Chiswick Conservatives Choose Local Crime Fighter Dinsmore as Parliamentary Candidate Wednesday, 25 October, 2023 Hammersmith & Chiswick Conservatives have chosen a high-profile crime fighter and local councillor as their standard bearer for the next General Election. Activists attended a packed meeting on Friday 21 October at Chiswick’s George IV pub to choose 34-year-old barrister Andrew Dinsmore from a three-person shortlist. Andrew hit the headlines earlier this year after taking an online petition to the... Local News
Looking Forward To A Community-led Recovery In The New Year 2nd January 2021 Readers of our weekly Councillor column will be familiar with our rotation by now. As it turns out, I have the pleasure of closing off 2020. Therefore, on... Local News
Dealing with an Unresponsive Council and a Night Prowler 12th December 2020 Nine weeks seem to come around quickly – it's blog time again. What’s changed in Chiswick since my previous blog? Traffic LTNs and Streetspace Not a lot. The... Local News
Streetspace, LTNs and the Need to Support Our Local Shops 5th December 2020 Walking around Chiswick it's clear that residents are pre-occupied with two issues. The Streetspace road closures including C9 and the prospect of the whole of... Local News
How To Have a Covid Ready Christmas 28th November 2020 Covid-19: Going into Tier-2 Councillors attended a meeting on 27 th November with senior council officers to discuss the latest national and local guidance with... Local News
A Week in Chiswick When Decades Happened 21st November 2020 As the saying goes, there are decades when nothing happens and there are weeks when decades happen. And so it has been this week, here on my laptop and phone... Local News
17 Buses Stationary on the High Road on Friday Afternoon 14th November 2020 Chiswick Traffic Chaos Hounslow Council traffic schemes including Streetspace, Turnham Green Terrace, Devonshire Road, Low traffic neighbourhoods and other... Local News
Cllr Biddolph's speech Seconding the Motion of No Confidence in Hounslow Council Leader 13th November 2020 MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE IN HOUNSLOW COUNCIL LEADER Borough Council Meeting of 10th November 2020 Thank you Mr Mayor. I'm seconding this motion because of the... Local News
Motion of No Confidence in Steve Curran, leader of Hounslow Borough Council 11th November 2020 The motion of no confidence in Steve Curran as leader of the council is due to a constitutional anomaly. The leader of the council is elected by the Borough... Local News
Press release: stop the mutilation of Chiswick 11th November 2020 CONSERVATIVE COUNCILLORS FIGHT THE COUNCIL TO SAVE CHISWICK FROM TRAFFIC CHAOS At a meeting of Hounslow Council on Tuesday Conservative Councillors fought to... Local News
Vote on Thursday to break the gridlock 10th December 2019 Two days before polling day, the Prime Minister is taking nothing for granted - whilst the Conservatives only need to gain 9 seats to get an overall majority... National News
Cost of Corbyn: Labour's plans for 108 new taxpayer funded quangos revealed 10th December 2019 New analysis shows that Labour’s manifesto commits to creating over 100 new quangos, with a total cost of £13.2 billion over the next five years. National News
Brexit, actually 9th December 2019 Boris Johnson's funny election advert parodies Love Actually but makes an important point: this election is too close to call. National News
Revealed: Labour’s plan to make our streets less safe 9th December 2019 Labour’s opposition to stop and search would increase crime on our streets, putting frontline officers and communities at risk. National News
Sport investment will get us ready for the World Cup bid 7th December 2019 A Conservative Majority Government will put a £550 million investment in grassroots football at the centre of its plans to back a UK and Ireland World Cup 2030... National News
Jeremy Corbyn’s plans to rig a second EU referendum 6th December 2019 The Prime Minister has written a letter urging Jeremy Corbyn to reconsider his Brexit policy and his plans to fiddle Labour’s second Brexit referendum. National News