Enough is Enough (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Yet another stealth tax facing millions of motorists each year, which also leads to excessive queues heading from Kent into Essex and vice-versa, is the road toll paid when travelling through the Dartford Tunnel or crossing the Dartford Bridge. A councillor in Havering has set up an e-petition calling for the abolition of the tolls at the Dartford Crossing. Apparently the tolls rake in £50m...
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
A health trust employee ran up a £1,000 calling a premium rate gay chat line from work. The bill was discovered by a telecoms consultant who was reviewing telecommunications at the Havering Primary Care Trust (PCT), which runs GP and dentist surgeries across the borough as well as St George's Hospital in Hornchurch. He estimated the employee had been calling the line for up to a year during...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
There's another grassroots story too, though. The BNP aren't standing a candidate against Evans, but will have high hopes of attracting many Havering and Redbridge votes for their contenders on the London-wide "top-up" list from which 11 of the 25 assembly members will be drawn. Should they secure just 5% overall, a BNP backside will be planted in City Hall. In 2004 they got 8.1% of the top-up...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Back from an Easter visit to home in North Wales to find out that the BNP held the seat in the Havering Council by-election on Thursday in Gooshays. A disappointing result of course. Despite Labour coming 2nd and increasing its share of the vote at the expense of the Tories (and the turnout only being a miserly 22%). However, there is no way that this overwhelmingly white working class ward...
Indigo Public Affairs (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
The Liberal Democrats gained Vassall ward in Lambeth borough council from Labour on Thursday night. The other two byelections saw the British National Party hold off a Labour challenge to keep Gooshays ward, Havering borough council, and the Conservatives easily retain Yapton ward, Arun district council.
NewerLabour (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
London Borough of Havering - Goosehays Ward BNP 865 Lab 741 Con 489 UKIP 70 Nat Lib 62 Lib 52 Labour still more than 100 votes behind... not good. Labour also lost a seat to the Yellow Peril in Lambeth (Vassall): LD 1,209 Lab 859 Con 206 Green 109 Eng Dem 8 Ind 7 Worrying trends. Labour voters need to get out and vote, or we'll be looking at Tory domination nationally.
Enough is Enough (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
Political Betting reports that the odious, authoritarian BNP held a council seat in the London Borough of Havering this week. Indeed it increased its majority in the Gooshays ward where the other two seats are held by the Tories (who came in a poor third on Thursday). Political Betting's coverage of local election results every Friday is outstanding (although quite why it refers to Conservative...
Home of the Green Arrow (Free subscription) | 03/21/2008
The British National Party, yesterday, not only held Gooshays Ward , in the London Borough of Havering, but substantially increased its percentage. This augers very well indeed for the London Mayoral and GLA elections in May. The result is: BNP 865 (38.0%) Lab 741 (32.5%) Con 489 (21.4%) UKIP 70 (3.1%) NLP 62 (2.7%) Lib-Dems 52 (2.3%) Turnout 22.6% Well done to the BNP’s Mark Logan and his...
Conservative Party Reptile (Free subscription) | 03/18/2008
The budget may have been a tiresome non-event, but some of the figures that came out of it really ought to change the tenor of political discourse. The reason for the endless Tory havering about tax-cuts is that the last two elections were partly won on the premise that 'Tory cuts' would leave a sort of gaping black hole in the public finances and were therefore irresponsible. Michael White
Luke's Blog (Free subscription) | 03/05/2008
Havering's only BNP councillor has resigned. At the 2006 council election, Gooshays Ward was highly marginal between Labour, the Tories and the BNP candidate. Yve Cornell, our candidate, was beaten by the narrowest possible margin, on the flip of a coin. A By-election on 20 March gives us an opportunity to win back a seat on the council and kick the BNP out of Havering. This is the start of the fight...
Labourhome (Free subscription) | 03/03/2008
On Sunday 9 March 2008 there will be a London wide day of action organised by TULO in support of Labour Mayor, Ken Livingstone and all our London Assembly candidates. In the City & East GLA constituency on 9 March we are planning to support our neighbours in Havering by campaigning in the Goodshays by-Election. The ward BNP councillor has resigned. At the 2006 council election, Gooshays Ward...
London Tour (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
London Borough of Havering Address : Main Road Romford RM1 3BB United Kingdom Telephone: 01708 434343 Text Phone: 01708 433175 Email: info@havering.gov.uk Website : www.havering.gov.uk
City Hall (Free subscription) | 02/19/2008
The neighbourhood police team in Harold Wood are one of the most popular and successful teams in North East London, so it is no surprise that Conservative Mayoral Candidate, Boris Johnson, wanted to meet them and learn about their work. Here he is pictured with PCSOs on bicycles which were purchased for them by local businesses. Boris heard how they had used their bikes to combat the 'mini moped' nuisance...
newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
I have been working on a story with my friend Irene from the Broadcast strand for BBC London. It is now up here . Mega-church has sights set on Havering By Richard Brennan and Irene Madonko The largest evangelical church in the country still hopes to move to Havering, even though the Council has rejected its plans. According to Kingsway International Christian Centre's CEO, Pastor Dipo...
The Bristow Blog (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008
Council ratings by the Audit Commission: 4 star councils Barnet, Bexley, Camden, Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea, Lewisham, Sutton, Wandsworth, Westminster 3 star councils Barking & Dagenham, Brent, Bromley, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Havering, Hounslow, Islington, Lambeth,...
