3:45pm Friday 18th July 2008
Since the Audit Commission published its damning assessment of Harrow Council this year, branding it as the worst-performing borough in London and the third worst in the UK, I have been advocating the need for a clear strategy to be adopted by the council to enable it to provide the high quality of services we Harrow residents deserve.
3:41pm Friday 18th July 2008
Holiday times are approaching and I know that many people will be looking forward to a rest from the hurly-burly of their normal lives and I certainly wish everyone well in whatever form their holidays take, but we should all be aware of those for whom the summer means business as usual. Out of a sense of duty and public service, many people will simply carry on working to protect us and to carry out their usual duties.
10:51am Thursday 5th June 2008
An extra four-and-a-half million parents in Britain will get the right to request flexible working, including many in Harrow, following the publication of an independent review prepared for the Government.
10:45am Thursday 5th June 2008
I want to discuss three very important areas in brief in this month's column - each of them strangely interlinked.
10:06am Friday 9th May 2008
Last week I met with Mr and Mr Aveyard, an elderly couple who live in Pinner, who were recently threatened with legal action by Harrow Council if they didn't remove a fence which Harrow Council itself put up.
10:05am Thursday 10th April 2008
The Civic Centre should be sold and the site redeveloped. It is far too big, encourages inefficiency and bureaucracy and is symbolic of the problems at Harrow Council which the Audit Commission so graphically highlighted last month.
9:56am Thursday 10th April 2008
One of the most intriguing poltical questions, amongst many at the moment, is when a Government minister is allowed to also be a local MP? I have had the great pleasure and privilege of being the MP for Harrow East for nearly 11 years and have been a Government whip for almost eight of those 11 years.
10:01am Thursday 6th March 2008
THE recent Audit Commission report rated Harrow as the worst performing local authority in London and the third worst in the UK as a whole. I am sure Harrow Times readers will agree that this is an unacceptable situation.
9:58am Thursday 6th March 2008
I THOUGHT that it would be useful if I gave everyone a flavour of a not untypical day in the constituency.
10:57am Friday 8th February 2008
HARROW'S schools rightly have an excellent reputation. The hard work of pupils, teachers and parents has meant we've seen excellent results year after year. But I want to see reform and further investment to keep our schools among the best in the country.
Updated 10:16pm Friday 25th July 2008
The Archbishop of Canterbury said he aimed to heal divisions among the 77 million-strong Anglican Communion through "consent, not coercion" as he sought to gain unity.
Relatives of Jean Charles de Menezes will renew their "struggle for justice" as they mark three years since the Brazilian was shot dead in a catastrophic error by police.
Michael Carrick believes moving to Manchester United was the best decision of his career.
An obsessed stalker sent a deluge of gifts, letters and emails to Little Britain star David Walliams, a court has heard.
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