The team behind me - the work starts now for May 2015

Selected by party members to be Labour's Candidate in 2015 Election

At West Thames College today party members selected me to stand against MaryMacleod in the 2015 General Election. Thank you to everyone involved.  It was a hard campaign, with strong candidates: Sam White, Murad Qureshi, Puneet Grewal and Nisar Malik.

More later .  . .   time to eat.

Bus Improvements from S106 (Planning gain) funding

We will soon see improvements to the 235 and 267 bus routes following planning gain deals with developers and a Hounslow Cabinet delegated decision;

The Wallis House/Great West Quarter provided £620,338 to fund a Sponsored Route Agreement with London Buses to extend the 235 (from Feltham) will go all the way through Brentford and up Ealing Road to the Great West Quarter, .

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel development at Syon Park provided £174,780 to fund a Sponsored Route Agreement with London Buses to increase the frequency of bus route 267 in the evenings (Monday-Sunday) from three to four buses per hour.

Both of these improvements are due to take place this year.

Racist Grafitti etc in Brentford Recently

I am saddened and angry to find that after many years without racist graffiti in locally, I am aware of at least 2 incidents  in the last 2 weeks. The first just off Green Dragon Lane, when an offensive note was left under a resident's windscreen telling him to move his car from where he always parks outside his home.  His car's registration plate was also defaced with a marker pen. This was reported to the police who are investigating. Then on Saturday in Lion Way, behind the High Street, a large "EDL" was written on the wall and the Lion Way sign defaced, again all done by marker pen.  This was cleaned up within 2 hours of being reported to Hounslow Highways. I have raised this with the borough police and the hate crime team base at the Treaty Centre.  The issue is being discussed at the Brentford SNT Panel on Thursday night. Please keep a look out for offensive messages of this sort, and report them to the police,  contact@hounslow-hatecrime.org.uk, and let local Councillors know as well. We cannot let this abhorrent behaviour go unchallenged.