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Zac to tackle burglary in Borough

Goldsmith sets out to strengthen security in London Borough of Hounslow.

Zac will target help for security improvements to the borough’s most high-risk homes and will ensure new developments include strong security measures as stan-dard.While burglary in London has fallen by a quarter since 2012, Hounslow saw 1,779 burglary offences last year and there are still too many victims of this intrusive crime. In Manches-ter, Salford has actively pursued a designing out crime approach and saw the number of burglaries fall by 25 per cent between 2001 and 2014.Commenting, Zac said:“Londoners should always feel safe and secure in their own homes – that’s why I’m taking a stand against burglary in our city.“My plan recognises that criminals don’t just target individual homes, they target neighbourhoods. By working together with developers, the police and local communities we can make buildings less vulnerable and our neighbourhoods safer.So let’s make life much harder for burglars by designing out crime from the start.” Zac Goldsmith

As Mayor, Zac will task the Met po-lice with preventing - not just inves-tigating - robberies and burglaries. Zac will:1. Review the London Plan to design out burglary in new developments – Zac will review the London Plan to ensure that there are strong require-ments on developers to include se-curity measures that will help to cut crime, such as proper street lighting; open walkways rather than narrow alleys and dead-locks on doors and windows.2. Target help for security improve-ments for London’s most at risk homes – Under Boris, victims of burglary are visited at home after the crime by police officers. As Mayor, Zac will ensure police also visit local neighbours at the same time, providing them with expert advice on simple measures such as locks and better lighting which can halve their risk of also being robbed. Zac will then work with Local Authori-ties and the Met to fund these mea-sures for lower income households.Read more at chiswickherald.co.uk

Conservative candidate for Mayor of London, Zac Goldsmith, has pledged to crack down on burglaries in The London Borough of Hounslow as part of his action plan to keep London’s streets safe.

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LOCAL NEWS.LOCAL NEWS.

Chiswick dentists treat kids in BurmaChiswick entrepreneurs wanted

West London dentist Dr Mike Clarke road tests the new generator-powered mobile dentistry unit. The “Burmadent” charity has this year treated more than 1200 young patients in remote parts of Myanmar (Burma).

A dental team from Chiswick in West London has travelled 5,000 miles east to provide free dental treatment for children in Myanmar (formerly Burma). The eight¬-strong team from West London Dental Centres, in Burlington Road, spent two weeks in the community, including orphanages and remote villages around the area surrounding Inle Lake, 200 miles north of the capital Yangon (Rangoon). Working for the charity “Burmadent”, they provided checkups and treatment for more than 1200 children, plus many elderly patients. The team was assisted by local Burmese dental nurses, who they had helped to train on previous volunteering trips.

Dr Mike Clarke, Principal at West London Dental Centres, said:“Our generous patients in Chiswick have really helped us to fund our volunteer trip, donating through our JustGiving page or at the surgery.“Many of the children that we encountered in Burma had never even seen a toothbrush before. That ¬ plus a sugar¬-rich diet ¬ means that

University College London’s School of Management has launched a search for the next Branson with the announcement of ‘The Panel’ - a one-day event in the style of Dragon’s Den, which will see budding entrepreneurs pitch their big idea to win a place on UCL’s MSc Technology Entrepreneurship course, worth £11,090. ‘The Panel’ is being organised by Chris Coleridge, Programme Director of the course, which gives entrepreneurs the skills, tools and network they need to start or grow a high impact business. Coleridge will be joined by other successful entrepreneurs and experts to assess the applicants and choose a winner.

children here lose teeth very quickly. The youngest patient who needed an extraction was just two years old,” said Mike, who is also a trustee at Burmadent.“But it was great to see that some of the fillings we provided on our previous volunteer trip were still going strong. By giving away free toothpaste and brushes, just simple dental health education has a practical, measurable benefit almost

straight away.“And the ‘well done’ stickers we brought with us were as popular with the children in Burma as they are at home!”

During their stay, the team took delivery of Burmadent’s new state-¬of-¬the art mobile dental surgery equipment, powered by a freestanding generator.“The mobile kit is a fantastic asset. We can now deliver the full range of dental care in

remote, inaccessible villages, not just extractions,” said Mike.Health care in Myanmar is patchy: unlike its more prosperous neighbours, Myanmar is said to still be the poorest country in the region ¬ with an estimated 33 per cent of its people at or below the poverty line.The Burmadent “Just Giving” page is still open for donations, or directly at the West London Dental Centres.

Its announcement comes after data from Companies House revealed that entrepreneurial Britain is booming, with 608,100 new businesses started last year, breaking the previous record of 581,173 new incorporations in 2014. Despite the upward trend for entrepreneurism, Coleridge points to a need for potential CEOs to seek assistance, saying: “Britain has never been as entrepreneurial as it is now, but at the same time competition is greater and challenges are ever present. We’re hoping ‘The Panel’ will encourage some of the UK’s most promising business people to come forward, including those who may not have considered studying while launching

their business. We can’t wait to see who comes forward and the ideas they present.” Applicants need to apply for a place on ‘The Panel’ before being considered, with only the best invited to pitch in front of Coleridge and a panel of experts. The winner of ‘The Panel’ will be awarded a place on UCL’s MSc in Technology Entrepreneurship course for the September 2016 intake, worth £11,090. Applications close on 9th June and are subject to a £75 course application fee. To apply visit https://www.mgmt.ucl.ac.uk/the-panel-application



CHATR: NOISE IMPACT OF HEATHROW’S THIRD RUNWAY WOULD BE ‘DEVASTATING’ FOR LONDON

NEW FLIGHTPATHS OVER CHISWICKImagine you have returned home, exhausted, after a busy day, grabbed a quick bite and have gone to bed for an early night only to find that you are experiencing the noise equivalent to a vacuum cleaner in your bedroom being switched on and off approximately every 90 seconds. You lie in bed waiting for the 11 pm cut off, only to find that flights continue until well past midnight. Although their frequency decreases, their noise is accentuated by the absence of other sounds at that time of night. Shortly after you have finally fallen asleep, flights resume again from 4.30 am - if you are unlucky enough to live under the glide path of the daily flight from Hong Kong. At present, a staggering 725,000 people are affected by the noise of Heathrow’s 490,000 aircraft movements: 28% of all people affected by aircraft noise across Europe. This number is projected to increase to over a million if the 3rd runway is built. These are the people exposed to an average (Lden) daily noise level of 55 decibels or more, which is threshold for noise being considered “annoying” and entitlements to compensation. Heathrow has not revealed the new flightpaths that would serve the 3rd Runway, but several forecasts show that areas of Chiswick that have never been previously overflown would be under a new flightpath. The planes would be at a height of around 2,000 feet, producing noise of up to 70 decibels on a landing approach, which is the equivalent to the noise of a vacuum cleaner a metre away. This is likely to be unrelenting as planes could run every 60-90 seconds or so, up to 12 hours a day with a mere four hour respite, or 16 hours a day for three weeks with then a week’s respite. Those areas already under existing flightpaths could lose respite and many parts of Chiswick could experience the noise of two flightpaths simultaneouslyAlthough there are currently regulations in place restricting the number of night-flights permitted between 11 pm and 6 am, London residents frequently report being disturbed by flights sometimes as late as 1 am and starting as early as 4.30. This situation is likely to get exponentially worse given the number of flightpaths that would converge over Chiswick. HEALTH EFFECTS OF NOISEYou may feel, of course, that you might be able to put up with this stoically and carry on, but your health, and that of your children, is likely to suffer. Scientific studies show noise annoyance and noise irritation can lead to serious health detriments including hypertension, cardiovascular disease and stroke. Long term aircraft noise exposure is associated with ‘chronic noise stress’ and this, in turn, is significantly associated with prevalence of high blood pressure. Exactly what you need to keep your heart in tip-top shape.Aircraft noise also affects child development. The Ranch studies (Road Traffic and Aircraft Noise and children’s Cognition and Health) tested almost 3,000 primary school age children living near Heathrow, Amsterdam and Madrid airports and found negative effects on children’s learning, including their reading, comprehension and recognition memory. A West London Schools Study concluded “High noise exposed children also had higher rates of hyperactivity than those exposed to low noise.” Tasks which involve central processing and

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language comprehension, such as reading, attention, problem solving and memory, appear to be most affected by exposure to aircraft noise. Language based tasks are more affected by noise exposure than non-language based tasks. However noise level is also significantly related to mathematical performance. As noise increases by contour band, performance drops by 0.73 of a mark. High levels of aircraft noise may impact on everyday activities such as homework, schoolwork and even playing. A South African study found that “68.7% of people residing near the airport presented with hearing loss, compared to 6.5% of those living further away. Investigation of the influence of high-frequency aircraft noise on the function of the auditory system in school age children confirmed damage to the peripheral cochlear mechanism in the group living close to the airport.”

MISLEADING NOISE FIGURESThere is a real danger of complacency arising from the published projections for average noise levels around Heathrow, after construction of a 3rd runway. Average figures for sound levels simply don’t reflect how noise is perceived by the human ear and brain and, as a consequence, figures such as those in the Airports Commission Report, do not give a true picture of what life will be like if Heathrow is expanded. For example, it would seem logical to expect that if the number of overflights in a time period increases by 50% (approximately the projected overall increase if a third runway is built), one might expect a sensible metric of noise pollution to increase by 50% as well. Instead, the actual method of calculation results in an increase of only 2decibels in the most commonly-used average. So, if you are a few miles from Heathrow and the current noise level is 57 decibels, a 50% increase in overflights will “only” increase this to 59 decibels! Moreover, that modest increase, in turn, is disguised by assuming that aircraft in the future will be slightly quieter. That decrease will not in reality be anything like sufficient to compensate for the massive increase in flight numbers by several hundred thousand. CHATR believes that the noise figures used by Heathrow and the Airports Commission are consequently highly misleading.

THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF HEALTH EFFECTS FROM RUNWAY 3 WILL BE “COLOSSAL” WARNS LONDON MAYORTransport for London (TfL) has published its research on the noise impact of Heathrow. Their findings closely correlate with CHATR’s own findings. Using methodology from the World Health Organisation (WHO), which values each lost year of healthy life at £60,000, Tfl’s Chair, Boris Johnson claims the financial impact of increased rates of heart attack, stroke, dementia and other disorders linked to aircraft noise will be “colossal”. Johnson warns expansion at Heathrow would cause “dire public health impacts” and urges the government to “face down vested interests” that support the £18.6bn scheme.Tfl’s report is also highly critical of the way that the Airports Commission has calculated the population who would be affected by significant levels of noise by 2050 if Heathrow expanded. Currently 766,100 people are affected by an “annoying” level of noise from the airport. The

Airports Commission modelled three scenarios and concluded that the number of people suffering such noise would fall. But Tfl points out that this is based on a series of “speculative” future changes to reduce aircraft noise, including steeper landing approaches, landing jets further down the runways and the redrawing of flight paths to avoid homes. TfL’s analysis indicates that the number of people affected by noise would rise to 986,600. Even under the Airports Commission scenarios, TfL warn that between 98,900 and 277,100 people who do not currently experience significant aircraft noise would do so. “Heathrow has no silver bullet for its noise nightmare,” said Boris Johnson. “You can shift flight routings all you like but you can’t avoid the suffering — you just end up inflicting it on thousands of new people.” TfL claims that 124 more schools and 42,300 more school children will suffer significant aircraft noise as a result of the proposed expansion at Heathrow.Last year, the Department for Transport published guidance for putting a financial value on premature deaths caused by medical conditions linked to prolonged exposure to noise. Using World Health Organisation methodology, TfL calculated that the “harm” of a third runway was worth between £20bn and £25bn over 60 years. The biggest cost is related to the health impact of sleep disturbance, which under one scenario is valued at £10.7bn.

In a week when the London Mayor, Boris Johnson, warned of ‘dire public health impacts from Runway 3’ and health costs that could spiral to £25 billion, Monika Holdak, research consultant for CHATR, examines the noise impacts of Heathrow’s Third Runway.

The dementia cost is estimated at £1.4bn, heart attacks at £400m and strokes at £900m.

If you, your parents and your children are insomniacs, have learnt how to withstand extended periods of sleep deprivation from a former member of the SAS, are unconcerned by your rising blood pressure or your children falling behind at school and are passionate plane spotters with 740,000 to choose from, then there is nothing in this article that is cause for any worry. If you are not, then it would perhaps be wise to consider the options available to head off this impending nightmare for you and your family sooner rather than later.

Monika Holdak joined CHATR at its inception as a research consultant, especially on health related issues. She lives in Chiswick and has recently established a family dental health centre in Richmond. For more information about CHATR please contact:Website: www.chatr.org.ukTwitter: @CHATR_HeathrowEmail: [email protected]


LOCAL NEWS.

No Mela at Gunnersbury Park this year

Residents drive new vision for Hammersmith town centre regeneration

The London Mela will not be held in Gunnersbury Park this summer. Instead, Remarkable Productions, the mela organisers, will be focussing on setting up a new independent trust to manage the mela. The new trust will have a board of trustees to guide it and will be financially independent from Ealing and Hounslow Councils for the first time.

The trust will focus on bringing the London Mela back to Gunnersbury Park in 2017 to celebrate the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence.

The trust will also work to produce a new London Mela presents programme to celebrate the diverse communities from the Asian sub-continent living in the capital. The programme is being supported by the Greater London Authority and Arts Council England and will launch in the summer with a few key events, with many more planned for 2017 and beyond.

The new trust will work with public funders, commercial partners and the wider public to develop funding, sponsorship and ticket sales strategies to be able to fill the gap left by the reduction in funding from local authorities.

The trust will be committed to keeping the event affordable and to bringing back the same breadth of high quality entertainment that mela fans have come to expect of the

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has put residents front and centre in formulating plans that will be central to what happens to Hammersmith town centre in the coming years.The Hammersmith Residents’ Working Party met for the third time to undertake their first work shop that will in large part govern what developers are permitted to do and what will happen with the Hammersmith Flyover and the gyratory and roads system.

The working party has been recruited to work alongside the council and create a development strategy for how Hammersmith could change over the next 20 years.Council leader Stephen Cowan said “We’re keen to work with residents rather than do things to them. This

event.

Councillor Julian Bell, leader of Ealing Council, said: “We appreciate how popular the mela has been and that its success has been internationally recognised. It will take on a different approach this year, while Remarkable explore how the mela can be improved and become self-funding before bringing it back next year.”

Julian Rudd, director of Remarkable Productions, said: “The London Mela is in the process of development and reinvention as it marches towards trust status and financial independence. It is right that we have a fallow year in 2016 in order to get that right. We are aiming to celebrate the birth of the new independent London Mela Trust in 2017, on the 70th anniversary of Indian independence, with the greatest London Mela yet.”

To receive updates and announcements about these events and this year’s Ealing Summer Festivals - follow @Ealing_Summer on Twitter and www.facebook.com/ealingsummer on Facebook as well as online at www.ealingsummerfestivals.com.

working party will strengthen the council’s hand in the tough negotiations we have with developers and others and has given residents’ associations and interested local people a much stronger voice on what happens to the neighbourhood they live in and care about.”The residents’ working party was formed last autumn, of local residents and resident groups.Members were selected from a wide-ranging number of applicants who are long-standing, concerned residents many of whom are also passionate business members and others with specific skills and knowledge.Aims for the project include improving and greening the environment, boosting numbers of genuinely affordable homes for residents, supporting business

and growing the local economy, creating good new jobs, improving King Street, restoring the town’s links with the river.During the workshop, the group looked at three key areas: land use, open space and connectivity and community.

All the feedback and work in subsequent meetings will be used by officers to help produce a planning document that will act as a blueprint for the regeneration.The Hammersmith Residents’ Working Party meets each month.

Brad Pitt in B&Q ChiswickHollywood actor Brad Pitt took advantage of the Easter Bank Holiday to catch up on some DIY.Pitt, 52, shocked shoppers when he was pictured buying DIY essentials in a London branch of B&Q on Easter Monday.The actor was reportedly ac-companied by two of his chil-dren at the hardware store in Chiswick.One worker captured a pic-ture of the actor - who looked casual in a flat cap - at the checkout and posted it to Twitter alongside the cap-tion: “S******t photo ever,

Dodgy pic...is it him?

but Brad Pitt was at my work today.”A source told Mail Online: “He just looked like any oth-er regular dad going about his Bank Holiday Monday. “The kids were extremely polite and he kept moving them out of the way so oth-er people could get on with their shopping. You’d never guess it was one of the most famous men in the world.”



Businesses at Heathrow pledge over 400 new apprenticeships to celebrate National Apprenticeship Week

Five year wait - and still no answers on Charing Cross Hospital from local health bosses

From Old Oak and Park Royal to the north, HS2 offers boost to housing, jobs and economic growth

London’s homelessness scandal: Homeless households soars by 92% in just five years

Heathrow businesses yesterday recognised the valuable contribution of its apprentices with pledges to create over 400 new apprenticeships during 2016.

The pledges came from some of the 400 businesses which work in and around the airport, including members of the Heathrow Sustainability Partnership, at an event hosted by Heathrow Academy to mark National Apprenticeship Week. Businesses making a pledge include Heathrow Airport Limited, World Duty Free, Balfour Beatty and Ferrovial Agroman.

Since 2004, the Heathrow Academy has placed over 1,500 people into

Local health bosses were grilled at a tense meeting at Hammersmith Town Hall this week – and were unable to clearly state the crucial details behind their plans to downgrade Charing Cross Hospital. In a performance that drew criticism from councillors and residents, the health chiefs were unable to say what services would remain at Charing Cross, what would happen to the A&E, or even if there would be any acute care beds. They were also unable present the business case on which their plans are based – despite them having passed it to Central Government nearly a year ago.Cllr Stephen Cowan, H&F Council leader, said: “It has been five years since the ridiculous plan to downgrade Charing Cross Hospital was launched – yet health officials say they still can’t tell us exactly what will happen if the current A&E is allowed to go or exactly what they plan to replace the current hospital with. “This is simply not good enough. I call on them to take

• In-principle agreement to transfer selected government-owned land at a key transport interchange to the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC) paving the way for massive regeneration of the area.• London’s largest development site will host up to 25,500 new homes and 65,000 jobs at the transport ‘super-hub’ for HS2, Crossrail and the Great Western Main Line.• Government Growth Strategy funding for Greater Manchester and Leeds City Region Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) will

New government figures on homelessness in London released show:• In 2015, 18,650 households in London were accepted as homeless by their local council, a 9% rise in a year and 92% higher than 5 years ago. • The number of homeless families living in emergency

apprenticeships, including 82 that graduated last year. Heathrow Airport has invested more than £4 million in the growth of the Academy and has ambitious plans for its future. Should Heathrow expansion go ahead, the airport has promised to offer 10,000 apprenticeships over the course of the project.Over 75,000 people are employed at Heathrow, and the airport accounts for one in five jobs (22%) in Slough, Spelthorne, Hounslow, Hillingdon and Ealing. In the 11 years since the Academy was established, over 5,000 local residents - from school leaving age upwards - have been placed into further training opportunities and more than 3,000 have been employed at the airport.

on board the independent recommendations of the Mansfield Health Commission and immediately halt their plans. The people of this borough deserve better – and we won’t stop fighting until they get it.”The proposals for ‘Shaping a Healthier Future’ – which involve slashing services at Charing Cross Hospital including its heavily used A&E – were deemed deeply flawed by the landmark Mansfield Report into local health service reorganisation, published in December.The local health chiefs were summoned to attend H&F Council’s health scrutiny committee meeting to directly address the concerns set out in the report, but they failed to do so.Committee member, Cllr Hannah Barlow, told the panel they had failed to respond to the Mansfield Report as the committee had requested. She said: “What we have been given today is a top-line vision slide deck, but what we had actually asked for is a considered response to the report’s findings.

Speaking at the event, Heathrow CEO, John Holland-Kaye, said:“We want Heathrow to be a great place to work, which attracts the most talented people from the local area and allows them to fulfil their potential - an environment where one of the children in a local school today can one day do my job. The Heathrow Academy plays a vital role in giving them the best start to their careers at the airport.”

“There has been no response or consideration for the vast amount of work that has gone into the Mansfield report. The number of residents and healthcare professionals that have offered their input into the report is significant. It is not to be discredited.”The panel, comprising top members of H&F Clinical Commissioning Group and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, were invited to H&F Council’s Health, Adult Social Care and Social Inclusion Policy and Accountability Committee. In their evidence, they reaffirmed their commitment to the Shaping a Healthier Future programme, which they say enjoys the support of clinicians and will improve outcomes for patients.

allow local partners to plan ahead for HS2 in their cities.HS2 is unlocking a massive regeneration project at Old Oak and Park Royal, and promoting local growth in Greater Manchester and Leeds thanks to new government funding.The Chancellor George Osborne has offered a boost for a major London development site at Old Oak and Park Royal with the in-principle decision to transfer selected land to the Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation (OPDC), bringing the prospect of up to 25,500 new homes and

65,000 extra jobs in the area closer to reality. Old Oak in west London will host a transport ‘super-hub’, with Crossrail and HS2 combining with the Great Western Main Line to provide fast and frequent access to London and also the west and north of the country. Bringing future ownership of the land under control of the OPDC ensures that development of what is currently London’s largest regeneration site is as smooth and swift as possible, and the OPDC will now proceed with funding, financing and delivering the regeneration.

Transport Minister Robert Goodwill said:“HS2 is not just a train line. I have already seen the transformative change that this project is triggering in Old Oak Common, Birmingham and elsewhere even before spades hit the ground next year. “That is why we’ve brought forward growth funding for northern locations – so they too can maximise the potential for their own region, thanks to HS2.”The Chancellor also announced £1.25 million of Growth Strategy funding for each HS2 station at

Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester Airport and Leeds to make the most of this unique economic opportunity. Half the funding will be provided early in the next financial year, with half reserved for after confirmation of the Phase Two route in autumn 2016. The funding can be used to get people, businesses and places ready for HS2, helping to build a long term economic, social and environmental legacy. It will also help align the opportunities of HS2 and the Northern Transport Strategy to help spread the benefits further, faster.

Communities Minister Baroness Williams said:“The Northern Powerhouse is about rebalancing the economy and unlocking the potential of the great cities of the North. HS2 with its promise of more jobs, housing and growth is central to that.“We have already seen how stations along the route are attracting interest and investment and now Manchester and Leeds can go full steam ahead in their plans for accommodating this historic opportunity.”

B&B’s and hostels in London has risen by 16% in a year and 142% in five years.• The loss of a private tenancy remains the single biggest cause of homelessness among Londoners, with over 7,000 households becoming homeless after eviction from a privately rented home in 2015. Seven times as many

households as 5 years ago.Responding to the figures, chief executive of Shelter, Campbell Robb said: “The devastating rise in homelessness in London revealed by today’s figures provides unquestionable proof the capital is once again at the mercy of a housing crisis.

“And as the number of homeless Londoners continues to grow, it’s clear that the modest proposals on rough-sleeping in the Budget are simply inadequate given the scale of this problem, and will not reach the thousands of homeless families hidden away in cramped B&B’s and dingy hostel rooms.

“Over the past fifty years at Shelter we have seen first-hand that reducing homelessness is only possible when a government is truly committed to providing secure and affordable homes, and adequate support should the worst happen. But, tragically as we approach our 50th anniversary we

are instead facing the catastrophic consequences of short-sighted welfare cuts and a severe housing shortage. “If we want to break the cycle of homelessness for good, this government and the next Mayor have to stop side-stepping the root causes, and urgently prioritise building homes that Londoners on low and ordinary incomes can actually afford to rent long-term or buy.”


EALING COUNCIL NEWS.

For those of you that live in the Ealing Council area of Chiswick...

HOUNSLOW COUNCIL NEWS.

For those of you that live in the Hounlsow Council area of Chiswick...

Countdown to garden waste charging begins

Shout loud to stop hate crime Ealing Council leads the fight against loneliness

Blooming good news

Residents have days left to take advantage of a ten per cent discount off their annual garden waste subscription charge. The current free service will end on Monday 4 April. Residents who wish to continue to have their garden waste collected need to sign up and pay for the new service. The annual subscription costs £50 for a fixed year period (4 April to 31 March 2017). Anyone receiving council tax support will pay £25 covering the same period.Residents who sign up after 1 October will pay £30, for the period until 31 March, or £15 if in receipt of council tax support.Anyone who subscribes before and on Thursday 31

Around 35,000 cases of hate crime committed in the UK against people because of their sexual orientation go unreported every year. Hounslow Council is taking a stance and trying and stem that statistic by asking residents to help promote tolerance and raise awareness of the prejudices faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender [LGBT] people. A survey has been created by the council’s Community Safety Team, Hounslow Police and OutWest, a leading LGBT charity to find out more about attitudes around LGBT hate crime, and to encourage victims to report the crimes against them and make people aware how they can do this. The survey also asks what the LGBT community think would help increase the number of people coming forward to report hate crime and highlights the unprejudiced support victims can get. Councillor Sue Sampson, Cabinet Member for Communities, said: “The

Ealing Council is leading a campaign with the NHS and a range of community and other organisations to combat the issue of loneliness and isolation amongst residents. The council and partners launched a new Loneliness and Isolation charter at Ealing’s first ever Loneliness and Isolation Seminar held at Ealing Town Hall on Friday, 18 March.The charter sets out how the council and other agencies will tackle loneliness in the borough. Among guests at the event were representatives from Age UK, the NHS, the Campaign to End Loneliness, Neighbourly Care Southall, Ealing Community Transport and social housing groups,Ealing’s cabinet member for health and adults’ services, Councillor Hitesh Tailor spoke at the event. He said: “There is a growing recognition of the devastating impact that loneliness can have on a person’s physical and mental health. Research shows people who are lonely are more likely to visit their GP or need residential care at an earlier point in their lives. Our vision is to make Ealing a place where older people and people in need of care

Some of the 20,000 flowers planted this year by Ealing Council Published Friday 18 March 2016Ealing Council has been selected from more than 600 entrants to compete in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) Britain in Bloom Awards 2016. Ealing was nominated by London in Bloom for the large city category for its outstanding commitment to environmental responsibility, community participation and gardening achievement in its parks and open spaces. Ealing Council is one of 72 finalists chosen from across the UK. Councillor Bassam Mahfouz, cabinet member for transport, environment and leisure, said: “Ealing has long been famous for its lush open spaces and has previously won gold in several London in Bloom categories. It is a real honour to be nominated and it is a

March 2016 will receive a ten per cent discount; £5 or £2.50 off the annual cost.Signing up for the council’s new garden waste service is simple. Go online to www.hounslow.gov.uk/garden_waste and follow the links to sign up using the automated, online payments form. As well as paying securely you will also receive confirmation of your subscription direct to your specified email account.As part of the service changes, residents will receive a new 240 litre wheelie bin, making it easier to store and dispose of their garden waste before it is collected and recycled. The bins have a larger capacity than the two 90 litre bags, which are on offer to those who have problems using a bin.

number of hate crime cases that go unnoticed and unreported is just simply too high. We must try to do something about this issue. “We don’t want anyone suffering from any kind of abuse and we want people to feel safe and comfortable about speaking out. By getting views from the LGBT community, we can get an idea of what may trigger this abuse and how we can go about removing it out from our community. “I strongly urge as many as possible to take part in the survey and give us your views so we can look to make a difference to the lives of many people.” To take part in the survey, visit www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/HounslowLGBTHatecrime Chief Superintendent Raj Kohli, Borough Commander for Hounslow Police, said: “This survey is a very important piece of work that has the full support of Hounslow Police and myself.

“LGBT hate crime issues are under-reported and we would like to know what the experiences of LGBT communities are, so we can work together and address these issues and continue to make sure Hounslow is a great place to live, work and socialise.” Ola Satchell, Project Development Worker for OutWest, said: “As an LGBT organisation, we have seen the effect that hate crime has on the community, on almost a daily basis. “We understand how it affects people’s lives. We urge everyone in Hounslow to take a few minutes to respond to the survey. It will really help us work with the council and the police to ensure unreported LGBT hate crime is a thing of the past.”

and support can lead healthy, enjoyable, sociable and safe lives through the promotion of independence and active engagement.“We heard today about the difference that can be made to a person’s quality of life simply by being able to meet up with other people and make friends. There is a lot of fantastic work in our community that is taking place such and I would like to see more people use the opportunities available through our partners, to combat loneliness. The charter is the first stage in developing this aim”Key pledges in the charter include carrying out research to find out the true extent of loneliness in the borough; working with the NHS new staff at GPs’ surgeries trained to identify and help patients suffering from loneliness and developing a plan with partners to tackle the issue.As part of the council’s work to reduce loneliness and isolation, Ealing provides funding towards a number of projects in the borough which offer social activities and befriending opportunities for residents. These include Age UK Ealing which runs

testament to our great team of park rangers and volunteers that help keep our parks looking amazing. I am looking forward to showing the judges around this summer.”The council’s parks officers will also get the opportunity to lead the competition judges on a tour of the borough’s best parks and open spaces in August 2016. Britain in Bloom entries are assessed on a wide range of criteria, such as the maintenance of parks and communal gardens, the management of natural spaces, community campaigns to promote recycling and environmental awareness, and projects involving local residents and schools.To find out more about the borough’s parks and open spaces, visit www.ealing.gov.uk/parks

the Restore Plus project to visit people who have come home after a long stay in hospital. The service helps people with simple exercises they can do at home and also accompanies them shopping or at social events until they regain confidence.Neighbourly Care Southall, also receives funding from Ealing Council to offer activities for older people at its centre in Featherstone Road, as well as 16 hubs in West Ealing, Acton, Northolt, Greenford and Perivale. Activities including keep fit and computing classes and day trips. Its chief executive, Andy Buddle was among speakers at the event. He said: “For those who are socially isolated and housebound we offer a befriending service staffed by volunteers who visit people at home. It can make a big difference to people. For example we had one lady who was depressed following the death of her husband and rarely left home. Gradually our befriending volunteer helped her to become confident enough to come to our centre to join in activities.”Andy Nazer, from The

The changes, which were agreed by councillors in September, are being introduced to help the council save money and protect essential services.As part of the service changes, the council is offering a free composter, usually worth around £20, to households who wish to compost their garden waste at home. This limited offer is on a first come, first served basis, with a small number still available.Residents are strongly advised to sign up online by following the sign up links at www.hounslow.gov.uk/garden_waste Anyone without internet access can sign up by calling 020 8583 5555.

Campaign to End Loneliness said: “Loneliness can have the same impact on mortality as smoking 15 cigarettes a day and should be recognised as a serious public health issue. The Campaign to End Loneliness wants to see local authorities across the country taking a lead on tackling it in their communities. So we’re delighted that one of our Campaign ambassadors is speaking at this very important event on combating loneliness at Ealing Council.” For information on community groups, activities and support available in Ealing visit: www.careplace.org.uk


POLITICS: RUTH CADBURY MP. POLITICS&LOCAL ISSUES.

Local MP slams government on homelessness

Women’s Pensions Lib Dems slate Ealing council for poor record on residents’ phone calls

Lib Dem Councillors go homeless to raise money for the YMCA

Young people elect first Youth Mayor of Hammersmith and Fulham

Tougher checks on online knife sales

Local MP Ruth Cadbury, highlighted the issue of homelessness which has doubled since 2010 which she argued was a direct result of government policy.

Labour MPs challenged the secretary of state for communities and local government, the Rt Hon. Greg Clark MP on the government record on homelessness. In addition to street homelessness doubling since 2010, the number of households with no permanent home has increased to a staggering 370,000.

Hounslow statutory homeless rate is nearly double the UK average at 4.44 households out

One of the big issues I have been dealing with in Parliament has been the issue of Women’s Pensions. A series of changes to the state pension age designed to equalise the pension age of men and women are causing a real problem for women born in the 1950s some of whom are having to wait more than six years longer to retire.

of 1,000 being accepted as homeless and in priority need whereas the national average sits at 2.4 households per 1,000.

Ruth Cadbury says ‘Yet again, the government fails to recognise the impact that their cuts have made on local communities. The removal of funding for new social rent housing, the housing benefit cap, the bedroom tax, the rise in sanctions and the sale of 100,000 council homes all contribute to the housing crisis which is leading to a widespread homelessness here in the UK.’

Almost 4500 women in B&I born in the 1950’s are affected by the lack of fair transitional arrangements for all women born on or after 6th April 1951. Moreover, it is estimated that around 1300 women locally are still not aware that they will have to wait up to 6 more years than they originally anticipated. Many women have had their state pension date moved twice, sometimes with as little as 2 years notice. The issue is not that the retirement age is being equalised (which is right) but that the women involved have not been given enough notice about the changes. I spoke in the debate, and the issue has been debated several times in

At Ealing Council’s Cabinet meeting (22nd March) Councillor Gary Malcolm slated Ealing Council for missing their targets in answering phone calls from residents. Ealing Council has failed for the last four quarters to meet its targets, failing most badly over the past few months.

Liberal Democrat Councillors, Gary Malcolm and Jon Ball, attended the YMCA’s annual ‘sleep easy’ event to fundraise so that the YMCA can provide shelter and advice to many teenagers who are homeless or might become homeless.

Councillor Gary Malcolm won the top fundraising award for the third time running, after he raised £970. He was handed a prize by the Mayor of Ealing.

Councillor Gary Malcolm said: “It is always sad when people become homeless because of

Young people in Hammersmith & Fulham have elected the borough’s first Youth Mayor.Aminiata Koroma, who attends Phoenix High School in White City, will take office after winning 1,039 of the votes in a spirited competition that saw young people vote in schools, community centres and youth clubs across the borough. “I think that young people should have the right to have their voices heard,” said the 15-year-old White City resident, who has been on the borough’s youth council for a year.“It’s a cliché but young people are the future. The things that grown-ups are doing now affect our futures and I think it’s only right we have a say,” she added.While Hurlingham Academy pupil Joshua Yirenkyi Owuraku, 15, came second with 846 votes and was elected to the post of Deputy Youth Mayor.The pair will represent young people in H&F and will champion their local campaigns. They will accompany the mayor at events, lead H&F’s youth strategy and lead local consultations.Hammersmith & Fulham’s Member of Youth Parliament (MYP) was also chosen during the two-week election.Johnley Videna, who attends Burlington Danes Academy in White City, was named as the borough’s MYP at the results evening at Hammersmith Town Hall on Tuesday 22 March.The 17-year-old Shepherds Bush resident

An investigation has revealed the apparent ease with which so-called ‘Zombie killer’ knives can be bought online with little or no age verification. Conservative Candidate for Mayor of London Zac Goldsmith has called for tougher checks to prevent their sale to under 18s, as part of a broader package to tackle knife crime.

The Met police have previously warned that teenage members of London’s gangs were using so-called ‘Zombie killer’ knives as status symbols. After conversations with the Police, the Zac Goldsmith campaign worked with the Godwin Lawson Foundation to investigate how easily such weapons could be purchased online.

Shockingly, a volunteer on Zac’s campaign was able to purchase a Zombie ‘Pestilence Chopper’ Knife online without any age-verification in a matter of minutes using an Amazon Gift Card on a brand new account. The 10.25inch blade – described with the slogan “the rules no longer apply”– was delivered within a day and no ID was asked for on delivery.

Although crime overall has fallen by 17 per cent under Boris, knife crime against under25s increased by 22 per cent last year.

If elected Mayor, Zac will use his influence to work with Amazon, Ebay and other online retailers to strengthen procedures to make it harder for under 18’s to buy knives, and to stop the sale of knives branded as ‘Zombie killers’

Yvonne Lawson of the Godwin Lawson Foundation – whose seventeen-year-old son

Councillor Gary Malcolm said: “Liberal Democrats say that residents should be heard. At the moment they have lots of questions about the wheelie bins being forced up on them. People are annoyed. If people call the Council they should answer more quickly.”

financial situations or family disagreements. The event, wonderfully organised by Ealing’s YMCA, has raised lots of money to help provide shelter to many young homeless people as well as raising awareness of their plight when homeless.”

Councillor Jon Ball said: “Sleeping rough is always difficult. You feel very vulnerable and sleeping is rarely possible due to the threat of being attacked or the noise from traffic and lager louts. You wake up achy and still feel tired. I hope the money raised can help provide a safe place for many young people in Ealing.”

has been on the H&F’s Youth Council for three years. He said he was shocked to have won in such a landslide, with 1,181 votes. “I’m thrilled and I’m over the moon,” he said.“I think it’s because people could see my local and national campaigns for this year are realistic and achievable.”He said his p r i o r i t i e s include fighting racial, religious and gender discrimination.He will be aided

by Huma Sindhu who attends Fulham Cross Girls’ School in Munster Road. She was named the borough’s Deputy MYP after coming second with 505 votes.The pair will now head the borough’s Youth Council and represent the voice of the borough’s young people nationally at the UK Youth Parliament. “I’m really looking forward to working with Aminata our new youth mayor, together with Joshua, her deputy,” said H&F Mayor, Cllr Mercy Umeh. “Congratulations to them and our new Youth MP and their deputy.“I was hugely impressed by everyone who stood in both elections. We’re lucky to have such diligent and talented young people in this borough whose enthusiasm and energy make a real difference, both in Hammersmith & Fulham and nationally.”

tragically died in 2010 after being stabbed – said:

“As a mother who had lost my son to knife crime, it was difficult to comprehend how easy it is for young people to buy knives on the internet. I decided to put this theory to the test, and I was astonished by how easy it was to purchase a knife on eBay, a very easy process with no checks. A serious factor to our rise in knife crime”

Zac Goldsmith said: “One of the first duties of the Mayor is to keep Londoners safe. “We won’t solve knife crime overnight, but the first point of any plan should be to take as many knives off the streets as possible. That’s why I back the sensitive use of Stop and Search.

“We also need to tackle the supply of knives. I share the concerns of the police over the availability of so-called ‘zombie killer’ knives and as Mayor I will work with them, the Government and online retailers to strengthen the rules so that the law is being properly enforced. This is just one part of a broader plan, including protecting neighbourhood policing and investing in preventative measures.

Parliament before and since. I will continue to fight this battle on behalf of the many women locally who are affected.

Last week I met constituents, Maggie and Margaret, two of those affected. Neither of them were notified of either of the changes in retirement ages, from 60 to 62, and then to 64. Margaret is 19 days younger than Maggie yet will have to wait four months longer to receive her pension. Maggie said “We’re not idiots. We know that people are living longer. But we started paying in at 16, we had a contract that has been broken, with no notice.”


MONEY MATTERS.

Money Matters with Dr P Singh. Dr Singh is an experienced corporate treasurer and teaches international finance. He may be contacted on 07800 862499 permjitsingh.weebly.com

Buy high and sell low

2 Banks must pay £100m to HMRC for tax avoidance bonus scam

Stupidest chief executive comment

Oil theft costing Nigeria £millions a day

UK property purchase market is a laundry

Wide gap in wealth among Germans

The chart below shows that even supposedly sophisticated investors make fundamentally wrong investment decisions: investing at high prices then selling out at low prices. Ac-cording to hedgethink.com

A 12-year battle ended when judge Mance ruled that UBS and Deutsche must each pay £50m to HMRC for tax avoid-ance relating to bonus pay-ment schemes.

“It is difficult to accept that Parliament intended to en-courage, by exemption from taxation, the award of shares to employees, when the award of such shares has no purpose

“It’s a 3-billion charge out of a 55-billion balance sheet.” Eric Olsen, chief executive of LafargeHolcim

Would shareholders vote this as the stupidest comment by their chief executive?

Maybe Olsen would not think it such a trivial loss if it were paid out of his salary or share options?The loss is due to impairment

Estimates vary, but bunkerers (oil thieves) now take about 200,000 barrels of crude oil a day and even more production is kept out of use by attacks on pipelines and other infrastruc-

For all its self-adulation as a haven of best practice in fi-nancial governance and regu-lation, the UK is a wide open door for money laundering. Property is a very high value

The top 10 percent of Ger-mans have almost 60 percent of the wealth, whereas the bottom half of the population had to make do with just 2.5 percent, a study by the central bank has found, laying bare a wide gap between the richest and the poorest in Europe’s biggest economy.

The Bundesbank found that

the reason for the closure of the hedge fund in question “...had little to do with the long-term prospects for the invest-ment model...the skill of the manager, or the expertise of the team. It is simply a symp-

other than the obtaining of the exemption itself,” Mance said.

“This success could open the door for HMRC to challenge other so called ‘tax avoidance schemes,”’ which were per-fectly legal when they were originally implemented.” a lawyer warned.

One wonders how many other banks, companies and ordi-

charges relating to its opera-tions in several emerging mar-kets, according to Bloomberg.

Since the merger that made LafargeHolcim the world’s biggest cement producer, shareholders have had to stomach a 40% decline in their share price, and according to analysts and Lafarge, the out-look is bleak.

The appreciation of the Swiss franc and overcapacity in the

ture, costing the government £11 million a day in lost rev-enue, the BBC reports. The country’s auditor revealed £11 billion was unaccounted for (stolen) in 2014.

transaction, running into the millions per transaction and billions annually and that’s just the London market. Little wonder then that criminals can use the UK property market to

half the population had little or no wealth, and identified ris-ing property prices as driving wealth for those who own it, while those who rent, as many Germans do, were falling be-hind.

Households who own their home saw wealth jump by more than 33,500 Euros (£26,259) in the four years to

tom of the pattern of investors buying in at the top of a cycle and getting out at the bottom” i.e., performance-chasing.

nary citizens will be pursued for legally avoiding tax. High time the government closed these tax loopholes and saved them all a lot of money paying fees for defending legal tax avoidance.

Another supreme court judge was right to note: “In our so-ciety, a great deal of intellec-tual effort is devoted to tax avoidance”

industry has caused domestic contracts and market prices to collapse, putting pressure on profitability.

Cost-cuttings and less capital expenditure will save mon-ey, but the promised 1 billion Swiss Franc savings from merger synergies have yet to be delivered.

With oil being a major source of export revenue and prices plummeting, cleaning up the corruption has become a more urgent task.

launder their ill-gotten money. You’d think the authorities would have woken up to this risk and closed this route but no, the laundry is still open all hours.

2014, while those who rent saw theirs rise by just 1,000 Euros or less.

While Germany’s post-war boom produced some of Eu-rope’s richest men and wom-en, from car-makers to food discounters, reform of wel-fare payments and slack wage growth mean most Germans live modestly.

On the couch with Chiswick Psychotherapist Nicholas RoseStress that leads to anxiety

In the last column I wrote about stress - as prolonged stress can develop into anxiety I thought it might be useful to write about how to recognise anxiety and how it can be treated.

Anxiety is a heightened state that is identifiable through a combination of physical, psychological and behavioural symptoms. Anxiety is different to stress in that it is a longer term condition and it is for this very reason that it can be harder to identify and therefore to treat.

It is not uncommon for people to be unaware that they suffer from anxiety until they realise that other people do not feel like them and again, being able to identify anxiety can depend upon its cause. Where there has been a significant life event it can be easier to spot than if someone has been anxious since a very early age. Again it is common for people to not recognise anxiety because the way they experience life has never been any different. For people who have this type of anxiety it can be helpful to think about a persons early years and any childhood traumas.

And of course anxiety is linked to a wide range of other unpleasant experiences such as panic attacks, agoraphobia, other phobia’s, obsessive compulsive disorder etc. Long term anxiety may also result in clinical depression or other mental health conditions - so once recognised it is really important to start developing ways to manage and hopefully recover from anxiety.

Neuroscience is starting to help us understand

the impact of anxiety on how the brain functions and to confirm long held views about its nature. It is now being recognised that heightened anxiety can come from the part of the brain called the amygdala. From an evolutionary perspective this area of the brain is tasked with warning us of potential threats and we are starting to understand that whilst this is a very sensitive and fast acting system it is not particularly accurate. Some theorists are suggesting that it is not particularly suited to modern day life because there is so much external stimuli, this area of the brain is constantly activated. As such this is why activities such as mindfulness, yoga, meditation and others that involve reducing external stimuli are becoming increasingly important.

Returning to anxiety and how to treat it, a common experience is for sufferers to be anxious about being anxious and this is contrary to how anxiety can be alleviated. This cycle which can only result in an escalation of the anxiety must first be broken. We need to adopt a “kindly curiosity” towards the experience of the anxiety so that it’s particular nature can be understood. There is nothing wrong with anxiety, in might helpfully be seen as a gift that alerts us to something we need to address in our lives. However ultimately, life will only improve if we start to recognise that the anxiety is merely an alert to something and it does not mean we need to be frightened, rather it enables us to question whether we need to be frightened and importantly allows us to decide what action, if any, we need to take.

At the primal level the three main psychological responses to an immediate

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threat are fight, flight and fright and we tend towards adopting a response based not only upon what is most appropriate given the context but what has worked for us in previous situations. For example, the fright response whilst it may have worked for someone who in the past needed to keep very still but it is not going to be helpful if every time you feel anxious you freeze.

What this means is we need to start to think about how the information being given to us by our thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations may require us to apply a degree of consideration and reflection to enable us to understand what is going on and as a result take an active role in how we respond. In other words, unless there is an obviously apparent immediate threat then although we may feel impelled to adopt an automatic response what we need to work towards is pausing and taking time to think through how immediate the threat may be and develop an appropriate response.


LOCAL NEWS.

Sherice Pitter is presented her award.

Hammersmith resident is Lyric theatre’s apprentice of the year

Chiswick nursery celebrates Easter

One of the backroom staff at Hammersmith’s Lyric theatre has been named the UK’s creative apprentice of the year.Hammersmith resident Sherice Pitter began working at the King Street venue – which is financially supported by Hammersmith & Fulham Council – in 2011 on a programme aimed at young people not in work or education.Two years later she was named Young People’s Apprentice at the Lyric Hammersmith, completing a community arts qualification before landing a job as development officer last September.Now she has reached the giddy heights of Creative and Cultural Skills Apprentice of the Year for the entire country.Last week 21-year-old Sherice was presented with her award at a ceremony at an events centre.The award celebrates apprentices in the creative and cultural industries who have shown exceptional commitment and ambition. “I feel honoured,” she said. “I found it very challenging in school and college, and having the opportunity to complete an apprenticeship has started me on a great career path. “Winning this has given me the confidence to challenge myself.”

Children at the Chiswick nursery and pre-school academy put their creative talents to good use this week as they handmade and decorated their very own Easter bonnets.

Staff from the Busy Bees nursery in Chiswick told children the story of Easter and children enjoyed the great outdoors as they explored the nursery garden searching for hidden Easter eggs and fluffy toy bunny rabbits.

Nursery manager Roxane Lovell, said: “Celebrations such as Easter are a great opportunity for children to get creative and iamprove their learning, and help to build an awareness from an

Sherice Pitter receives her award from Pauline Tambling CBE at the Creative and Cultural Skills awardsSherice’s apprenticeship was part of a programme run by the London Theatre Consortium, which includes the Bush Theatre, Royal Court and Young Vic. It has created 56 new roles in the past three years.It is aimed at 16 to 24-year-olds who are interested in the arts but who have not done higher education. Around 60% are from non-white UK backgrounds and 27% have a disability. This year the Lyric has already employed four new apprentices in everything from technical to community arts, venue operations to production. In all, the Lyric has supported nine young people who haven’t been to college. Sian Alexander, Lyric executive director, said everyone was very proud of Sherice. “We’re thrilled she’s with us now as development officer in our fundraising department,” she said. “Sherice and all our apprentices show us how positive these programmes are in developing the next generation of creative and cultural workers.”

early age of why important cultural festivals are celebrated.

“Spring is such an exciting time to be outdoors, as the garden comes to life with plants and wildlife in the warmer weather, and the children particularly enjoyed

searching for the hidden Easter eggs.

Chiswick Nursery and Pre School Academy is part of the award winning Busy Bees nursery group, the UK’s largest provider of quality childcare.


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LOCAL NEWS. LOCAL NEWS.

Shepherds Bush takeaway fined £30,000

The Woody Grill’s kitchen

A waste pipe at the Woody Grill

Piping at the Woody Grill

New Market for Chiswick

Chiswick RNLI called out on Boat Race day

High Road Market, launching on April 9th in the grounds of Belmont Primary School, Chiswick, is the latest addition to west London’s burgeoning artisan food scene.

An entirely unique interactive food market, this new market will showcase local and London food producers’ and will also offer craft beer, local brews, some beats, and some wonderful coffees.

The market can be found every Saturday at Belmont Primary School Playground, Belmont Road, Chiswick, London W4 5UL.TEL: 020 8994 7677

What’s on offer? You’ll find fresh delights such as Channel Fish, offering up daily catches such as Skate Wings, Red Mullet, and Smoked Haddock. Pick’s the Butchers showcase beautiful rare breed meats from the north of England. And Wild Country show off our rich nature reserve with their fresh veg and herbs.

You’ll also find delight such as fresh pies, Narnia cheeses (a London cheese company), Bad Ass Cakes, Pizza Maria with their pimped up Piaggio van serving up fresh pizzas, plus Bold Spirits who always seem to get the party started. Kids will

The Chiswick lifeboat crew rescued two canoeists suffering from hypothermia and exhaustion at the Thames foreshore on Boat Race day. The crew said they were returning from a previous call-out when they found the pair “in some distress” in front of the Harrods Depository near Barnes.

Both people had been taking part in the annual Devizes to Westminster

The owner of a filthy restaurant who put the public at risk was fined £30,000 after an investigation by Hammersmith & Fulham Council.

The owners of Woody Grill restaurant and takeaway in 1 Uxbridge Road, Shepherds Bush, pleaded guilty in court to a total of eight offences.

H&F Council’s environmental health team stepped in after complaints from residents who fell ill after eating at the restaurant.

Officers found the restaurant in a filthy condition, including dirty food preparation surfaces, chopping boards and fridge door handles.

love the music, the board games, the food, and the atmosphere.

High Road Market will also be offering a variety of tastings and demos each week, so that guests can learn as well as eat…

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Trader profiles:

Cobble lane cured: Chosen by the Evening Standard as one of the 1,000 most influential

Londoners in 2014, Cobble Lane cured transform top quality free-range meat into delicious hams, salamis, whole cuts, sausages and bacon. Taking a slow and caring approach they don’t use any chemicals to accelerate the process nor to stabilise or artificially enhance the flavour of their charcuterie.

Pick’s Organic farm:For a perfect Sunday roast then look no further than Pick’s Organics. Every week their very own butcher brings along bounty of organic pork and beef lovingly reared on their farm in Leicestershire.

Wild Country Organics: A modern organic family farm run by Dr Adrian Izzard, Wild Country Organics have developed growing techniques to produce a wide range of the tastiest organic vegetables and salads all right here on his modern organic farm in Cambridge.

In addition, cooked food was not protected from raw food, animal droppings were found in the back store room with no pest control measures in place and health and safety paperwork was not kept.

The restaurant’s owner, Cengiz Erpolat, was also ordered to pay costs of £4,327.50 and a £120 victim surcharge at Hammersmith Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday 23 February.

Erpolat owns six other Woody Grill restaurants across the capital and has previous convictions for similar offences in neighbouring Ealing.

“When customers eat out the

very least they can expect is food that doesn’t make them ill,” said Cllr Wesley Harcourt, H&F Cabinet Member for Environment, Transport and Residents’ Services. “And these failings are also unfair on the vast majority of businesses who invest properly in proper hygiene standards to keep residents safe.

“This heavy fine should serve as an indication of just how determined we are to stop restaurant owners motivated solely by financial gain cutting corners and selling dangerous food to the residents of Hammersmith & Fulham.”

Any suppliers of products shown in these photographs are not implicated in this investigation

international canoe race, a gruelling 125-mile contest that sees 300 boats travel from Wiltshire and finish opposite the Houses of Parliament.

They were taken to Chiswick Pier where paramedics treated the pair.

Helmsman Luke Dillon said: “One of the pair was suffering from exhaustion and hypothermia, having paddled through the night in wet and

windy conditions.

“We were able to assist them, start to warm them up and prevent their condition from deteriorating further.”

The international race has been held ever Easter since 1948 and, because of its arduous nature, participants are advised to train for six months beforehand.

Rescue: Two people needed help on the foreshore Chiswick RNLI


LOCAL NEWS.

Help! We need somebody. Do you have any memories of the Beatles at Chiswick House?

South Acton Estate - Social Cleansing or improving neighbourhoods?

Help! We need somebody to tell us about the Beatles when they came to Chiswick House - When you were younger, so much younger than today... on May 20th, 1966 did you race down to Chiswick House grounds to see the Beatles film promos for Paperback Writer and Rain?

If so, the Chiswick House Trust would love to hear from you for their archives and to celebrate the 50 year anniversary of the visit of the four most famous people on the planet at that time.

The legendary Chiswick House clips, forerunners of today’s ubiquitous music videos, show the Beatles miming to the songs in and around the 19th century Conservatory and the 18th century gardens.

Dan Knowles helps residents get the best out of compulsory purchase orders. Here he writes about his work and how his own experience led to a career helping others.

An Englishman’s home is his castle. When that phrase was first coined, King Charles I was on the throne and would occasionally take ownership of castles within the realm by force. The modern day equivalent is Compulsory Purchase.

The nobles and other rich landowners of the time have been replaced, mostly with the working class, living on Council estates under threat of demolition.

On one side of the fight are the residents under threat of losing their homes. Vocabulary such as social cleansing and gentrification are commonplace as the working class are often priced out of areas where sky scrapers and plush apartments are built. On the other side are the local council and often a development partner. They’ll often suggest that the old run down estates are past their sell by date and that regeneration can provide the additional housing that everyone agrees is needed.

When schemes work well, the new properties are populated by the affluent middle class, punctuated by residents from the old estate and first time buyers, stepping on the housing ladder thanks to the

“The idea was that we’d use them in America as well as the UK, because we thought, ‘We can’t go everywhere. We’re stopping touring and we’ll send these films out to promote the record.’”” “These days obviously everybody does that - it’s part of the promotion for a single - so I suppose, in a way, we invented MTV.” George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology.

Footage of the films shows masses of presumably uninvited “extras”, children playing on the tree behind the band, schoolchildren in maroon uniform outside the conservatory, and students crammed against a gate trying to get a peak of the Fab Four who had taken refuge against the hordes of fans in the walled garden.

Do you know who they were? Were you there? If so, please email any anecdotes or pictures you may have of the day to [email protected] putting “Beatles Memories” in the subject field.

Although the Beatles are long gone, fans and film aficionados still make the pilgrimage to West London to visit the scenes of the famous films. The 65 acre grounds look significantly better than they did, thanks to a major £12 million restoration in 2010, but a trip to the first English landscape garden rewards visitors with reassuringly similar sights of the Grade 1 listed Conservatory, kids playing, grand vistas and hidden pathways, architectural delights and a dazzling array of flowers, shrubs and specimen trees.

government’s popular Help to Buy scheme. Where schemes work badly, residents on the old estate cry that they are being forced out with nowhere to go.

Dan Knowles is a Chartered Surveyor working for a property consultancy called Sawyer Fielding. Unusually, he got involved with helping residents under threat of Compulsory Purchase after losing his own home, years ago. Working in this area brings huge challenges, both emotionally and technically.

On Tuesday 15th March, BBC 1 showed a documentary called ‘The Estate We’re In’ which highlighted the plight of residents on the West Hendon Estate in North London. Leaseholders were being offered close to half the value of their homes and many tenants were being evicted and housed in temporary accommodation all over London. Dan whose company acted on behalf of most of the leaseholders commented “negotiations were long and challenging but we finally reached a fair outcome.”

Many estates aren’t as lucky though. The documentary suggests that there are 90 estates undergoing regeneration. Companies like Dan’s can only help a small number. He’s known some residents lose out through not knowing how to protect themselves.

One estate that is more fortunate is the South Acton Estate, Ealing Council’s largest. Dan’s company joined forces with a residents group headed by the formidable leaseholder, Betty Lajanska. They negotiated significantly improved offers for leaseholders. In a helpful step forward, Ealing Council and its development partner

Acton Gardens have recently started offering new-build properties on the estate to those having to sell to them.

Whilst some estates in London are seeing angry residents protest against gentrification and social cleansing, at South Acton, collaborative working to make regeneration work for everyone is making for a

far smoother ride. So far at least!

As for Dan’s company, they realise they are in a privileged position, being able to help large numbers of residents. Their ‘Sawyer Fielding Gives Back’ service has just made its third charity donation in as many months. It all started with a £4000 donation to

our own Charity of the Year, Acton Homeless Concern.

‘The Estate We’re In’ is still available on BBC IPlayer and on Youtube. As resident Jackie says to the camera, “anywhere there’s a council estate in London, they’re coming to you next!”


LOCAL NEWS. LOCAL LIFE.

The triumph of Sunday peopleby Reverend Martine Oborne

But what exactly have we been celebrating?

Of course, as a Vicar, I should know!

We have, of course, been celebrating Christ risen from the dead. But what does that mean? And what difference does it make?

I remember one of my children asking me once whether the world would be any dif-ferent, if the events of Easter had never hap-pened. And it’s a very good question.

We talk about Christ taking away the sin of the world. But there certainly seems to be plenty of sin about the place, when you take a look around you.

In the past week or so, we have seen the vi-olence of the terrorist attacks in Brussels, the mad vengeance of the person who murdered Assad Shah, a Glaswegian shopkeeper, who had had the temerity to wish his ‘Christian na-tion’ a happy Easter. And, on a more personal note, a dear friend of mine suddenly died – barely into her fifties.

Our world is beset with violence, vengeance and sorrow. It’s what you might call a Good Friday world.

Which sounds bleak.

But when I watch the scenes on TV of the vig-ils in the Place de la Bourse and the tributes to Mr Shah in Shawlands, I am struck how defiant is the human spirit.

We will not be defeated by evil. We will not give up hope. We will stand together in soli-darity – saying #thisisnotwhoweare.

We will gather together, light candles and keep silence. We will kneel and pray for our broken world. We will weep and yearn for peace. We will continue to hope.

That things can be different.

That we will not be condemned to a Good Fri-day world forever.

That, as sure as Sunday follows Friday, there will come a time when violence and ven-geance and sorrow are no more.

This is what the Christian story of Easter is about.

Christ is raised from the dead. And not only gives us hope that we can be made new, but that our world can be made new too.

The husband of my friend who died wrote bravely about his loss on his church website. He said, As the days pass, my wife’s absence is growing. The thought of not holding her or talking with her and knowing I never will again in this life is a painful wound.

But then he tells how he senses that Good Friday is behind him and Easter Sunday will ultimately come. Perhaps, not for a long time, but that it will ultimately come. He says, I sense that perhaps I shall be in Holy Saturday for a long time…but it will pass. He clings to the hope that Easter Sunday brings. That love will triumph – even over death.

So, despite all the horrors and suffering of our world, I cannot help being encouraged, almost affirmed, of God’s presence and activ-ity - when I see hope springing up in the most unlikely of places – at the site of a terrorist attack or at the graveside of a loved one.

The good news of Easter is that hope is in-domitable. We will not only go on hop-ing that things can be different. We will be transformed and empowered and encouraged to play our own part in making those things different.

We will refuse to be Friday people. We will be Sunday people bringing in a Sunday world.

A world that will be truly something to cel-ebrate.

Let us happily greetevery creature we meet

and with positive attitudeextend our gratitude

to our Lord,the giver of life.

Let us bless the wood lous,the lowly field mouse. The fox and the bat,the cat and the rat,

cause they all have a place in God’s heavenly graceand are worthy of note,

however remoteit may seem, on occasions like this.

And if this garden were bigthen a cow or a pig

might be welcome to playwith us all here today.

But bless the dog and the frog,the toad in the roadand let’s not forsake

the common grass snake.

And I must confirmthat even the worm,

who makes us squirm,deserves dedication

as we give our oblations.And would St Francis ignore

an ant at the door?

And as Robin Redbreasttakes a well deserved rest

in his sweet little nest,may we beg his pardon

for using his garden,God’s other creatures to bless.

And will mole underground,think thoughts profound

as his over-ground mound, we surround.

And the weasel and ferretall have their merit.

And should we includethe beetle and crow?And even the rabbitwho makes it a habit

to eat all the carrots we grow!

Can we possibly guess what creatures he’ll bless,as God pours out his gracefrom somewhere in space

to give such joyto the whole human race?

So to all things that fly,that do creep and do crawl,

let us join with our Lordand say “Bless em all”!

© Tony Inwood.

Bless this Mouse!(For an Animal Blessing Service)

by Tony Inwood

Well, Easter is over. And hopefully everyone has had had a good Easter break. Time to celebrate. Time to eat chocolate eggs. Time to get together with friends and family. And celebrate.

Grove park Primary Celebrates Shakespeare Week

World Leader in Essential Oils Launches European HQ in ChiswickLast week Grove

Park Primary School celebrated Shakespeare Week. The pupils and staff have had lots of fun getting to know Shakespeare, his plays and his language. Every class from Nursery to Year 6 has got involved.

Teacher Helen Alvey said, “We’ve been learning soliloquies, p e r f o r m i n g scenes, creating Shakespearian insults, concocting witches’ potions, designing costumes, making dream catchers...the list goes on and on! It has been a truly Shakespearian week!”

Following over $1 billion achieved in annual sales in 2015, the world’s number one essential oil firm - Young Living - has opened new European Headquarters in Chiswick. In a move to attract key up-and-coming talent in the region, the move has already created 54 new jobs, and the vast office space allows for a three-fold increase in team size in the future.

“Chiswick Park is a prime location for Young Living to build and nurture strategic partnerships, as well as expand resources for our members in the region”, said Jared Turner, Young Living Chief Operating Officer.

“This move establishes

Young Living as a key player in the London business community, and helps establish us as a coveted brand to work for and partner with.”

Chiswick Park has established itself as the premier business hub in London, with a dynamic environment that supports Young Living’s culture and wellness lifestyle. In addition to expanded office space, the new location offers resources to members, including a premiere meeting facility, expanded call center services and accessibility.

“Young Living has experienced tremendous global growth in recent years, and we invested

in the London offices to create an infrastructure to support anticipated future growth,” said Turner. “We are committed to cultivating business opportunities in the region and hiring talented individuals locally.”


ART&ARCHITECTURE. ART&ARCHITECTURE.

FROM THE FIGURE TO ABSTRACT SCULPTURE

Henry Moore worked at

3 Grove Studios, Adie Road Hammersmith in the 1930’s and wrote for an arts journal, as well as practicing as a sculptor in London into the war years, producing powerful drawings of people sheltering in underground stations in the blitz. In the 1920’s, whilst teaching at the Royal College and Brook Green School of Art both Moore and Barbara Hepworth, a contemporary of Moore, were to become influential artists embracing European abstraction in a use of pure form and sparse composition. Both were more attracted to direct carving and looked towards Brancusi and Epstein rather than classical sculpture.

In his sculpture Moore pursued a love of pre-classical form, exposed to Mayan sculpture seen in the Louvre, he moved away from traditional life drawing. However, the English pioneer of abstraction in sculpture was to be his Royal College of Art colleague, Barbara Hepworth.

Ironically Hepworth was neglected for several decades as the emphasis was on her male colleagues, although an exhibition

at Tate this year will put a new tilt on this group of sculptors framing Hepworth as the more radical, abstract artist. Subject matter was a point of debate during this period. The freedom to address pure form and explore the poetics of space was the arena where interaction between form, line, plane and environment was to become important. Hepworth’s work had elements in common with architecture, requiring no narrative

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interpretation, and consequently was commissioned and placed outside some of our great London buildings.

Moore’s focus, by contrast, was the female form, and although he addressed the theme of mother and child whilst working in Grove Studios, he was drawn back

to the simple gigantic figures, familiar to us from ancient non-European sculpture. What this group of artists cut out from their repertoire, was the Victorian ideal of the classical sculpture. The ‘cast court’ was the place where students were asked to copy Greek sculpture in an attempt to emulate the peak of human achievement. The drudgery of copying, spurred a rebellion, which prompted an exit from this room full of

plaster copies, as well as a general questioning of the value of the life room. “Life” for both Moore and Hepworth was to be found elsewhere. The subject matter of the female form as ‘muse’ was a thorny one for a woman practicing in such a male profession. Hepworth’s abstraction was a perfect foil to this. Objectification for a woman artist of Hepworth’s generation was very real. Ironically Moore remained in hock to the female

form, whereas the complication or even a possibility for a female artist to be confused with the role of “muse” prompted Hepworth to take a more sophisticated approach to what art should be.

A new generation of art historians later in the 20th century managed to recoup the first generation of women pioneers of modern sculpture, including Chiswick based Gertrude Hermes as well as Barbara Hepworth, laying out this dilemma of why there were so few women represented in the art galleries and museums. They discovered that although history conceals many talents, there are indeed many interesting women artists working amongst us.

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1. Henry Moore 3 Standing Figures 1947 Stone2. Barbara Hepworth Single Form 1962 Bronze3. Louise Mock Untitled Blackened Stoneware4. Hilary Brown Float Pink fibre-cement and stainless steel

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The Palm House in Kew Gardens designed in 1844-48 by Decimus and Nicole Burton has a ribbed vaulted ceiling reminiscent of plant and

animal forms. It was the first time wrought iron was used for a building of this scale and paved the way for another modular gigantic structure by Paxton, built in cast iron and glass, that took only 4 months to erect in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition of 1851. This was our first pre-fabricated building and as such was the harbinger of all that is modern in architecture.

The impetus for this project began with the Mechanics Institute who wanted “trade” to come out of the dark satanic mills, and into the bright light of this ‘Crystal Palace’ for all the world to admire. Exhibiting things made by workers was the start of our modern sensi-bility, bridging the gap between high and low culture and cleansing the dirty image of British manufacture. The mid 19th century was a moment that, with all its complexity, celebrated what it is to make artifacts in many parts of the world, from the gigantic Indian dia-mond, to the Canadian butter sculpture of the Prince of Wales, refrigerated and dressed in ‘American Indian’ costume!Although flawed by its colonialism this was an en-deavor to bring many cultures under one roof and was deeply fascinating to its audience as a first view of the world through the objects it makes. It proved to be the start of truly ‘popular’ art. So much so, that the Great Exhibition created enough profit from visitor tickets to subsequently fund the setting up of three West London ‘Palaces for the People’ in the form of the Science, Natural History and Victoria and Albert museums in Kensington.

Charlotte Bronte wrote of her visit to the Great Exhi-bition: “Its grandeur does not consist in one thing, but in the unique assemblage of all things.’ Her own writ-ing had already revealed a 19th century interest in the hidden life of the colonies. She showed her moment in history and its fascination with ‘otherness’ in the writing of the ‘exotic’ and ‘insane’ character Bertha Mason in Jane Eyre in 1847.

The Palm House at Kew exists in a parallel time zone with Jane Eyre and The Great Exhibition in its col-lecting of plant species from all parts of the world. By installing John Frederic Daniell’s revolutionary inven-tion of the hygrometer, that could register atmospher-ic humidity, ensured a warm welcome was offered to plant species from across the globe that would have otherwise quickly perished in London’s bitter winters. The new constructions of iron and glass allowed such an extravagant quantity of light to enter a building that it became possible to support exotic plants.

Combining the Victorian technical ability to create the first humidified atmosphere with an interest in col-lecting everything from around the world, under the glass canopy of the Palm House, the beginnings of our modern multi cultural society were seeded. Indeed the Palm House is an apt metaphor for the British Empire which “embraces” all in its gilded cage.

Inspired by the structure of a giant waterlily, Decimus Burton designed the Palm House for Kew Gardens and Joseph Paxton a lily house for Chatsworth.

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Conor O’Shea agrees four-year deal with Italy

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Harlequins director of rugby Conor O’Shea has reached agreement to become the new coach of Italy from June on a four-year deal.

O’Shea, 45, will take over from Frenchman Jacques Brunel, who is returning to his homeland to become for-wards coach at Bordeaux-Be-gles.

The move had been expected - Irishman O’Shea, who led Quins to the Aviva Premier-ship title in 2012, had been strongly linked with the job for some time and had already confirmed that he would be leaving The Stoop at the end of the season.

Mike Catt, a 2003 World Cup winner with England, will be O’Shea’s attack and skills coach.

Catt returns to rugby after leaving his post as an England assistant coach in December following the host nation’s spectacular 2015 World Cup flop when they failed to prog-ress beyond the pool stage.

Alfredo Gavazzi, president of the Italian Rugby Union, said: “O’Shea is a young technician with a track record of success in the field with strong managerial skills.”

O’Shea said: “As I said when I announced that I would be leaving, I feel the end of this season is the right time for me to take on a new challenge and I am honoured, hum-bled and excited that I will be working with everyone in Italian Rugby to ensure they can achieve on the undoubted potential they have as a rugby nation.

“I spent many years in the 1990’s playing against a great Italian side and I know there is the ability and will within this current group of players and the FIR to ensure that the current team can become the best Italian team in its history, but that is for another time.

“For me now there is a job to finish here at Harlequins and to ensure we finish this season as well as we can and see if we can add some more

Conor O’Shea will become Italy coach in June

Mike Catt will be O’Shea’s attack and skills coach

silverware to the Trophy Cab-inet at this great club. I will say my goodbyes then and not before.”

His first task will be to help oversee Italy’s summer tour

to Argentina, the United States and Canada.

The Azzurri this season fin-ished bottom of the Six Na-tions table for an 11th time in 17 seasons. They conceded

224 points and 29 tries in five games, while their final two fixtures against Ireland and Wales saw them beaten 58-15 and 67-14, respectively.

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Fears for Brentford midfielder Josh McEachran over foot injury

QPR and Brentford handed fines by the FA

Brentford midfielder Josh McEachran has suffered a potential-ly serious injury with the club fear-ing he may have broken a bone in his foot, Sky sources understand. The 23-year-old, who signed from Chelsea last summer, sustained the injury in training on Thursday and has been sent for scans.McEachran is a regular in the first team and has started the last six matches in midfield. He missed the first four months of the season with foot injury.The former Chelsea youth team player, who previously spent time on at Middlesbrough, has made 15 appearances for the Bees this sea-son.Brentford are currently on a run of 10 defeats in 13 Championship games and have subsequently joined the relegation fight, sitting in 18th place, six points above the drop zone with eight games to go.Head coach Dean Smith said after their most recent defeat at home to Blackburn that he was keen to bring on loan signings in defensive-mid-field and on the wing.

QPR and Brentford have been fined £7,500 and £10,000 respectively for misconduct by the Football Association following an incident in their recent derby at Loftus Road.Players from both sides were involved in a me-lee early in the second half of QPR’s 3-0 win on March 12, sparked by home midfielder Karl Henry’s tackle on Ryan Woods.Both clubs denied an FA charge of failing to control their players but an Independent Reg-ulatory Commission hearing on Tuesday found QPR and Brentford guilty and warned them as to their future conduct.

Josh McEachran has made 15 appearances for Brentford this season

QPR beat Brentford 3-0 at Loftus Road

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