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Burns Night

Anybody know of anywhere in the Ealing/Brentford area doing a takeaway Burn's Night Supper - haggis, neeps & tatties, etc?

Thelma Leach ● 2096d1 Comments ● 2095d

Monster 5G mast in Boston Manor Playing Fields

So having been kicked out of Blondin Park, Three Mobile and EE are now hoping to put up a 60-foot high monster mast in Boston Manor Playing Fields instead.http://www.brentfordtw8.com/default.asp?section=info&page=plfivegmast001.htmIt’s interesting to see that the proposed mast relies very heavily on Huawei technology. One of the drawings submitted to Hounslow Council specifies the deployment of a Huawei BTS3900A cabinet.http://planning2.hounslow.gov.uk/NPSPublicDocs/00688507.pdfIn case you’re not familiar with it, the Huawei BTS3900A cabinet is the part of the system that deals with your calls, texts, emails and web searches. The technology in the Huawei BTS3900A also makes it possible to send all of this to Beijing so the Chinese government can see exactly what you’re up to. You can object here (link below) but only mention planning-related concerns, like height, overshadowing and loss of amenity. Spying by foreign powers does not count as a “material” concern.https://eforms.hounslow.gov.uk/ufs/ufsmain?formid=A086_PLANNING_COMMENTS&ALT_REF=00132%2FA%2FCOM1&CASE_NO=PA%2F2020%2F2091&ebz=1_1594408177409&ebd=0&ebz=1_1594408177409

David Marshall ● 2290d17 Comments ● 2096d

Black and White cat found on Windsor Road

Report made on Pets Reunited https://www.petsreunited.com/ealing/ealing/found/cats/found-black-and-whitecat/fxzjy8xs

Christine Mulligan ● 2098d1 Comments ● 2097d

Selling a Car Privately

We need to sell our car because it won't be compliant with the new ULEZ regulations. Before we bought this car we always used to lease vehicles so don't have much experience. Are services like webuyanycar likely to offer a decent price or is it worth the time and effort of selling privately and, if so, where is the best place to do this?

Christine Mulligan ● 2106d9 Comments ● 2098d

Bowie in Ealing & Acton

There is an interesting article in the online Ealing News Extra:https://ealingnewsextra.co.uk/history/bowie/

Philippa Bond ● 2102d0 Comments ● 2102d

Look After My Bills Nightmare.

To save people the agony of having to deal with a future nightmare  with Look After My Bills and Utility Point please read their horrendous reviews on Trustpilot.                                  This is an email I received from Trustpilot this week.                                                People are reading your review!Hi Neil Milkins,You recently wrote a review on Trustpilot and it looks like people find it helpful.117 people have already read your review.                                                                                                       LOOK AFTER MY BILLS SHAMBLES.It is now 12 weeks since Look After My Bills without my knowledge or permission changed my energy provider from S.S.E. to Utility Point. Jacqueline Loughman promised me 9 weeks ago that they would resolve the matter within 14 days. A week ago their senior complaints manager Daniel promised me he would phone me on (29-12-20) and have the matter resolved. No phone call and no answer to my emails to him. In the meantime I am going to have a sky high electric and gas bill when this matter is resolved. It is near impossible to get a reply from them once you have emailed and phoned them and it is totally impossible to phone Utility Point as ALL their phone lines have been cut off. I have been on the phone and emailing 19 hours in total trying to sort this mess out. Anyone thinking of going with Look After My Bills or Utility Point please check their horrendous reviews on Trustpilot.

Neil Milkins ● 2114d14 Comments ● 2104d

1.3 million children without a laptop

This will surely have an effect on learning. I read that children in private schools are less likely to have their education interrupted than children in state schools.

Nicholas Beard ● 2108d6 Comments ● 2104d

Hanwell couple accused of murder remain free

Don't normally like posting links to Daily Mail articles but this one shocked me. The pair may of course be innocent but the bigger issue this raises is that if extradition to India is seen as automatically being a breach of a person's human rights, this country has become a sanctuary for people from there who have committed serious crimes including alleged child murderers. There may be a good reason why Scotland Yard are not investigating but the government should be asking the Indian government for assurances about the protection of the accuseds' human right which they probably would have provided as a matter of course anyway. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9103123/Couple-adopted-son-11-killed-150-000-insurance-payout-stroll-home-shopping.html

Gordon Southwell ● 2110d1 Comments ● 2106d

Renaming Havelock Road Council corruption

Renaming Havelock Road may be a trivial issue. The way it was achieved is an illustration of how Ealing Council at its highest level goes about its business: dishonestly. The decision to rename the road Havelock Road was made by “two pillars of the community”, Julian Bell, Council Leader, and Paul Najserak, CEO.   Bell suggested the idea (10.6.20.)  Why?  He doesn’t live on the road or in Southall.   ANSWER:  he depends on Southall councillors for support and is in the pay of the local MP.    Self-interest. On 14.7.20 the matter appeared on the agenda of the Cabinet, never having been discussed by them before.  The Cabinet had it all done and dusted there and then.   They decided a council officer could make the decision. Democracy?  No. Decisions should be made by our elected representatives, not by council employees.  Paul Najserak made the decision.  Between Bell making the suggestion and Najserak making the decision what occurred appears to be a conspiracy to subvert due process so that Southall could be given what Southall wanted -  FREE.FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST I have been trying to get straight answers about what occurred for weeks.  I am still trying. A Freedom of information Request is needed to secure the minutes of meetings and internal memoranda. I believe someone has already made one.  If that person is reading this, would they please let us know the result - if there was one.Meanwhile: LETTER SENT TO BELL “Dear Julian Bell, Why did the Cabinet deal with renaming Havelock Road rather than leaving it to a resident to make an application?   There was no reason a resident could not do so and it is the routine way for such applications to happen?  Your sincerely, Andrew Farmer”

Andrew Farmer ● 2139d10 Comments ● 2106d

AN HONEST  ANSWER  REQUIRED TO A SIMPLE QUESTION

The following is an email sent to Council Leader Bell:Dear Julian Bell,In the matter of Mr NajserakLast year, I asked you a simple question.  It concerned the circumstances in which Mr Najsarek gained employment with Ealing Council.  It was: “Did you already know anything of what appeared in the press on June 30 2016 in respect of Mr Najsarek’s behaviour in Bolton when he was appointed as Ealing's CEO?". I am asking you again.  You must know the answer.  All that is needed is yes or no.To fail to respond is a LIE BY OMISSION.  I refer you to the Epistle of St James, the origin of this concept.  I know it’s difficult.   A dilemma.  If you say “yes”, you will reveal that you were DISHONEST with the people of Ealing when, at the time he was appointed, you praised Najserak’s wonderful record of public service.  If you say “no”, you will confirm that Mr Najserak successfully DECEIVED his way into Ealing Council. Andrew Farmer 

Andrew Farmer ● 2110d1 Comments ● 2106d

EalingToday Forum - Dying?

And reading some of the recent posts not hard to see why.  Shame really - a regional forum should be for sharing tips, information, gossip and local news but not for advocating one's personal political dogma - do that with your own account on Twitter please.

Philip Coe ● 2111d7 Comments ● 2109d

Coronavirus cases in Ealing

A front page article"Some areas of Ealing have seen cases double again in a week" .....is described as attributed as follows, "Written with contributions from Anahita Hossein-Pour - Local Democracy Reporter"Would anyone know why the "areas" featured have no municipal reference such as ward boundaries and in some cases refer to either a road or an imprecise area. Maybe it's helpful to know if a road suffers more cases than others but then what about very nearby neighbouring roads for example."Bedford Park", for example is an area with a variety of definitions other than with the architectural filter.I think my question is where does the data come from?

Don Tanswell ● 2109d4 Comments ● 2109d

Missing Dog!! Lost seen Gunnersbury park 2pm 06/01/20

My friends dog has gone missing when out on a walk in Gunnersbury park.It’s a black and brown Dachshunds called Evie.Please keep an eye out for her! Thanks Nick

Nick Williams ● 2110d1 Comments ● 2109d

Ealing Schools Closed

Ealing primary schools to remain closed until at least 18th January Source: Little Ealing Primary School website

Martin Williams-Neale ● 2117d1 Comments ● 2110d

More half truths from Ealing's leader

So this time he is making g out that his administration is somehow doing a wonderful job with distributing vaccines.Just how many 80 plus year olds have bee vaccinated by this distributor since it commenced?Well some surgeries have reviewed less than a dozen vaccination filesDistrict Nurses and other direct line operatives have still not even had a long shot date.Distribution is selective and tickets issued to 90 years olds being dropped off and waited for at Vaccination centres.Several 90+ residents being invited for their vaccination but advised to Walk or Cycle.Access to many surgeries in LTNs remains difficult almost impossible and no help provided by LBE for drop of and collect points for the very elderly and those transporting them.I hope Mr Bell and co can sleep at night. Because their half lies are keeping others from being at peace.Why can this man and his cowardly crew simply not tell things straight rather than yet again play politics with people?

Raymond Havelock ● 2124d4 Comments ● 2121d

OLIO App

I've had my attention drawn to an app called OLIO which allows people with surplus food (as, for example, when your Christmas visitors have now cancelled) to offer it to someone who needs it (because, for example, their visits to family have been cancelled).Thought I'd mention it.

Susan Kelly ● 2128d1 Comments ● 2124d

Is “Better Ealing Streets” a fake organisation?

Just had a glossy flyer stuck through the door purporting to be from “Better Ealing Streets”. Yards of breathless guff about LTNs being the best thing since sliced bread. The organisation claims to be “…a group of local residents who support the Low Traffic Neighbourhood trials…”Really?The leaflet looks like it was written by Ealing Council.

David Marshall ● 2130d19 Comments ● 2124d

Shoe repairers

Is the shoe repairers on Northfields Avenue open?  Someone told me it had closed. I'll be very sorry if it has, they always did such a good with shoes and various other things.

Pat Kingham ● 2135d7 Comments ● 2124d

Crossrail and Ealing Broadway's lack of an escalator

As a regular user of Ealing Broadway, I'm really cheesed off that we haven't got an escalator to come when the patching up of the station is finally complete. There will be a small number of lifts so our dreadful mayor can 'tick the access boxes' but that's it. Maybe a little more foresight from tfl, Ealing Council and the local MPs, all Labour, might have got an escalator. If Greenford can get one, then why not a station that handles many times the number of passengers?

peter king ● 2144d10 Comments ● 2124d

Ealing Christmas & New Year Waste & Recycling  Changes

https://www.ealing.gov.uk/news/article/2052/changes_to_rubbish_and_recycling_collections_this_christmas

Philippa Bond ● 2126d0 Comments ● 2126d