MayorWatch (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
Residents of Barking and Dagenham who have been the victim or witness of a hate crime will soon be able to report the incident directly to a dedicated helpline commissioned by the local Council.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 05/02/2008
London, May 2 (ANI): Three cops, based in Barking and Dagenham, took a prisoner on a jaunt out to have sex with his wife as his reward for confessing his crimes. The prisoner, who was accused of battering his wife, was released for a day despite being on remand. Anti-corruption cops, who were keeping an eye [...]
Theo's blog (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Hat-tip to Recess Monkey for this scoop on the BNP in Barking . According to the Ilford Recorder, Cllr. Bob Bailey - the Deputy Leader no less of the BNP on Barking and Dagenham Council - launched a verbal attack on the newspaper's reporter after complaints about biased coverage. Now, I'm sure all councillors have felt a bit hurt from time to time by biased or shoddy by local papers. However,...
RecessMonkey (Free subscription) | 04/24/2008
Cllr Bob Bailey, Deputy Leader of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham Council was today caught up in scandal after suggesting the local paper was biased against the BNP. In a verbal attack peppered with four-letter words, the former Royal Marine accused the Recorder of bias and called journalist Sally Lowe, 29, a jobsworth. [...]
Articles Database (Free subscription) | 04/16/2008
As people are becoming more and more aware of the damage asbestos exposure is causing those who were around it before it got banned, the Barking and Dagenham Asbestos Victims Support Group are launching an appeal for former residents and workers to get in contact with them. This is so they can compile a record [...]
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
The British National Party candidate for Mayor of London has given a wide-ranging interview to the BBC. Richard Barnbrook is a Barking and Dagenham councillor, along with eleven BNP colleagues. He told the BBC: "You can be gay behind closed doors, you can be heterosexual behind closed doors, but you don't bring it onto the streets, demanding more rights for it."
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Labour MP Jon Cruddas talks to the Guardian about the BNP and politics in Barking and Dagenham prior to the London elections
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The Labour MP Jon Cruddas talks to the Guardian about the BNP and politics in Barking and Dagenham prior to the London elections
MSDN Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
At the NAACE conference I ran into an old friend, Sheyne Lucock, who is the General Inspector for BSF (Building Schools for the Future) and ICT at Barking and Dagenham Local Authority. Sheyne has always been somebody who's done things "his own way" - not concerned about what way the crowd is going, and very focused on what is right for his schools in the area. One of the most visible examples...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/04/2008
A Primary Care Trust in London has produced information leaflets about cancer specifically for lesbians and gay men. This is the first time an NHS organisation has produced such leaflets. The Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust developed them in association with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD). Entitled Gay Men and Cancer and Lesbians and Cancer, they are...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/02/2008
Barking and Dagenham is aiming to cut its smoking-related death rate with London's first one-stop shop to help people quit.
the groundhog (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Ground: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Stadium Date: Tuesday 12th February 2008, 7.45 pm League: League Two Result: Dagenham & Redbridge 6 Chester City 2 HT: 3-0 Att: 1,328 Strevens 13, 60 Uddin 15 Roberts 51, Murphy 90 (Chester scored 1st) Rainford 23 Nurse 83 Hall 90 Additional: Entrance £15 Programme £2.50 Hot drinks £1.00 Luckily for me my work were sending me on a [...]
London Logue (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Britain is the world leader when it comes to CCTV with more cameras filming its citizens going about their every day business than anywhere else. Now Barking and Dagenham in east London has become the first borough in the capital to introduce talking CCTV. They've spent £25,000 fitting loudspeakers to existing cameras and will be used [...]
Tim Worstall (Free subscription) | 01/25/2008
Suburbia has of late been home to shootings (Croxteth, Merseyside and Letchworth, Hertfordshire), suicide bombers (Beeston, Leeds), playground stabbings (Edgware, Middlesex), assertive ethnic workers (the Gate Gourmet staff at Heathrow) and an electorally advancing far right (Barking and Dagenham). Eh? Barking and Dagenham, suburbs? Letchworth was a New Town (very much the opposite of...
Transpontine (Free subscription) | 12/27/2007
The papers have been full recently of the story of the relationship between Simon Clarke, English National Ballet dancer, and Richard Barnbrook , British National Party councillor in Barking and Dagenham and the party's prospective candidate for Mayor of London. Among the ironies of this story is that Clarke has a mixed-race daughter and Barnbrook has previously gone on record as saying that...
