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A motion submitted to last week’s meeting calling on the Council to approach the Local Government Association (LGA) to carry out a review into scrutiny procedures was unsurprisingly rejected by the Hillingdon Conservatives who currently control the make up of the Council. There have been recent changes to the way in which Councillors are entitled

“I know what it is like to be called a ‘paki’, or a ‘wog’, to be strung up on my first day of senior school because I was a different colour” were the words of Hillingdon Labour Councillor Jazz Dhillon when proposing his motion on Islamophobia to the Hillingdon Council meeting that took place last week.

A Hillingdon Labour Councillor has reacted to the Council’s decision to scrap the corporate parenting board and removal of Councillors’ right to scrutinise council policy on vulnerable children in care, by expressing his worries that lack of scrutiny could lead to a ‘Baby P’ situation. Cllr Tony Eginton, Hillingdon Labour’s lead on Social Care, has

Responding to the news that the High Court have dismissed all the legal challenges to plans to build a third runway at Heathrow Airport, Hillingdon Labour Group Leader Cllr Peter Curling said “We are extremely disappointed at the high court ruling on the third runway at Heathrow Airport. We believe that the environmental impact and

A record number of people were issued emergency food parcels in the last year, according to The Trussell Trust who support a nationwide network of foodbanks in the UK. According to their data, a record 1.6 million food parcels were given out to families and individuals who are experiencing food poverty right here in the