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Stolen Collie - URGENT APPEAL

Bobby the collie was taken from Ealing Common Station on 28 Feb and has been missing sinceHe’s three years old and owners are franticI can’t copy a photo of the appeal poster here but if you hear of anyone looking to sell on a collie type dog, know anyone who has suddenly obtained one or if it’s you who has him thinking he was a stray please get in touch as details belowCALL 07821 867999OR 07774 724797CrimeStoppers.0800 555 111(ANONYMOUSLY)DogLost ID: 173861MALE BORDERCOLLIEMICROCHIPPED3yrs oldMISSING SINCE9.37pm - 28th Feb 2022Ealing Common StationLONDON W5BOBBY WAS SEEN ON CCTV BEINGENCOURAGED ONTO A TRAINThe couple involved had a Labradortype dog of their own, arrived on aWestbound Train, and left station onan Eastbound Train with Bobby.IF YOU WERE JUST KEEPING HIM SAFEPLEASE HAND HIM IN TO ANY VETSCALL ONE OF THE NUMBERS HERE

Colin Goodman ● 1654d2 Comments ● 1653d

best estate agents?

I clicked on that and just got a list of all of them.  Whilst I had expected a blank page - much as the CD of the Wisdom of Donald rump is a blank disc - but not even that!

Robert Shaw ● 1662d3 Comments ● 1654d

Host a Swedish 6th form student in Ealing

The Swedish School at The National Archives in Kew is recruiting host families in Ealing for Swedish 6th form students arriving in the end of August. In case you have a spare room in your home, this is a way for you to get an extra income and a chance to get to know a young person from Sweden. Many of our hosts have a long lasting friendship with their students as the student lives with you for 5 or 10 months. The host family provides care and a room for the student as well as breakfast and dinner. Host families receive £740/month. More info here https://swedishschool.org.uk/en/become-a-host-family/ or send an email to hostfamily@swedishschool.org.uk

Gustav Johansson ● 1655d0 Comments ● 1655d

Ealing Council - Air Quality Strategy Survey.

Tell 'em exactly what you think!  😆http://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90425083/Ealing-Air-Quality-Strategy-Survey?utm_campaign=Shaping_Ealing_%20Air_%20Quality%20_email%20template&utm_source=emailCampaign&utm_content=&utm_medium=email

Rosco White ● 1668d94 Comments ● 1655d

Water meter  - effects on boiler

I’ve been advised by a gas engineer to have something fitted to my boiler, now that we’re on a water meter. Does this sound right? Sorry I’m not sure what the part is?

Maggie Dodge ● 1660d14 Comments ● 1655d

More claims about NHS Closures

Labour start May election campaign at Ealing Hospital with Eve Turner of Ealing Save Our NHS, Dr Sonia Adesara, from Keep Our NHS Public, and Southall MP Virendra Sharma on 26th Feb 2022. Lies about NHS closures from those who failed to provide Covid information or vitamins.

Martin Cain ● 1661d2 Comments ● 1661d

WW2 bomb on Ealing Common

Does anyone know anything about this?

Ian Richardson ● 1666d5 Comments ● 1665d

Should we be reassured on Ealing's Cinema?

Peter Mason and Cllr Anand have been featured in a new video issued by Ealing Council from the Filmworks site eating popcorn and promising that Ealing will be getting a cinema. I would assume it has been made partly in response to the article that was recently published on this site which reported that the cinema wouldn't be opening until the end of the year. One thing that doesn't appear to be mentioned in the video is a date with Covid being used as the excuse for the delays but other construction projects are cracking along quite nicely and haven't missed deadlines certainly not by this extent. It is mentioned that a Picturehouse representative was at the site but that doesn't necessarily give total reassurance. The financial troubles of the group have been well covered and there is a big question about the viability of multi-screen cinemas on the scale of this one with many films now being released on streaming channels. There simply may not be enough films to show on eight screens. Neither Cllr Mason nor Cllr Anand are financial analysts so they can't know for sure that Picturehouse will be around or will stick to its commitments.



Gordon Southwell ● 1668d4 Comments ● 1668d

Puncture repair Ealing

Where is the best place to get a bicycle puncture repaired in Ealing and how much should I expect to pay?

Gordon Southwell ● 1676d13 Comments ● 1669d

Somers & Blake

Hi, Does anyone know if Somers & Blake, solicitors near Wickes in Hanwell, are still in business?  I've been getting a ringing out phone for the past week.

Caroline Cabraal ● 1676d4 Comments ● 1669d

Ealing Council Tree Department

In April 2021 Ealing Council contractors sawed down a beautiful and perfectly healthy Norway Maple from outside our property. Over nine months later its large ugly stump remains. The justification to cut this huge tree down was that over time its trunk and roots had caused damage to the pavement, as the trunk has been left and the pavement remains in the same condition the exercise was pointless and leaves us an eyesore in place of a magnificent tree. I have tried to telephone and have written regular emails to the Councils tree dept, the last time anyone was courteous enough to reply was in November when they cited the contractor as not having the correct tool and staff shortages, previously that it was policy to have a group of trees to do on the same day. Nine months! I’d be grateful for any suggestions on how to escalate the matter,  Ealing Commons local councillors have been emailed directly and copied on all correspondence but don’t acknowledge.

Adam Porges ● 1672d12 Comments ● 1670d

TfL still manipulating and lying

If TfL were a national government, it would be up there with Russia, China and many despot countries for their constant misleading and use of unsubstantiated propaganda.It may not be as nasty as those places but the methodology remains the same. It would no doubt be unrecognised by the UK and sanctions applied.Then again. our Government is not exactly squeaky clean when it comes to telling the truth or misleading the public.However, it takes constant Freedom of Information requests to glean anything from TfL and their duck and dive approach to responding usually means 2 or three attempts before the answers start to emerge.They know that journalists and those who take the trouble to investigate further have limited time or resources or both and this appeases them.The latest claims on this websites lead story are completely unsubstantiated and based on policy and politically funded research. In other words organisations that will produce a report that vindicates what their paymasters policy requires.To take one example : To date there are no clear and definitive causes of Dementia. Whilst Alzheimers is now the generic word, Dementia is a range of diseases of which Alzheimers is one.It is as common in rural areas as it is in dense urban areas - as is Asthma. I have family who suffer both and live in a very rural part of England and one in Eire. Fact is, after decades of research,fund raising the causes are still not understood. It is so random in so many cases.TfLs claims about Hospital admissions are also unfounded. it is modelled propaganda. They have omitted the sources again and again.  B*******t baffles Brains and it seems it works.Our politicians are too lazy or afraid to do the hard work of proper fact finding and force TfL to be open and honest rather than sly and deceptive.The huge waste of money on the ULEZ which with diminishing non compliant vehicles already way below the figure TfL based the justification on in the first place - again by not even being honest to themselves but keen to please their political masters, could have made safer road surfaces and better general improvements London wide for all road users and provide a fully funded mandatory training and proficiency scheme to be reinstated for Cyclists and other non car users.It was the LCC that set this up in the first place and it ended with the demise of the GLC.

Raymond Havelock ● 1719d124 Comments ● 1679d

Lost Kitten in Wilsmere Drive, UB5

Please could you keep an eye out for a kitten that got lost on 1.February, around 11AM, on Wilsmere Drive, near Wilsmere Park. He is male, black, with 2 white patches on his belly, and green eyes. Please contact me if you see him, he is so vulnerable out there.

Erika Lutzke ● 1680d0 Comments ● 1680d

What to do with your Old Electricals

Lots of info on the different ways to deal with and how to recycle your electricals now that many people will have updated or have had a sort out during the holidays.Make sure you match your chargers and leads to their equipment so that you don't recycle parts of items that you'll later regret... Mark them so mark them so no-one will get carried away in their de-cluttering enthusiasm.  You could spend ages trying to replace them online.https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk/

Philippa Bond ● 1700d18 Comments ● 1681d

Fire Engines Delayed by LTNs

No source is given for the figures on delays to fire engines in the report currently on the front page but I presume they come from London Fire Brigade. They don't really tell us anything we didn't already know. Emergency workers had made it clear that the barriers were causing them delay. What I found annoying was the attempt by some to minimise this problem by quoting figures based on average response times for fire engines as if a minimal change showed that the LTNs were not causing extra risk. What these figures demonstrate is that probably on around 40-50 occasions in Ealing fire engines took longer to get to an incident because of LTNs. Another reason to applaud Peter Mason's decision to scrap most of these schemes despite the punitive measures that have been taken against the borough in terms of funding as a result. As I write Sue Grey has yet to present her report but the Prime Minister may be gone by the end of the day — with him will go Andrew Gilligan and Ealing will start to get its fair share of transport funding again.

Gordon Southwell ● 1691d30 Comments ● 1685d

An urgent plea.

From Facebook."An urgent plea for help to anyone travelling on the 207 this morning (and for some kind person to share this to Hanwell friends - please)A bereaved man on his way for a last visit to his partner at Ryan’s undertaker in South Ealing, before the funeral tomorrow, left a bag of really precious but not valuable things of his partner’s including a photo for the funeral on the bus. He ran after the bus when he realised,  but fell over. He did alert the next bus. It is a Marks and Spencer’s green and black zipped cool bag n the bottom deck of the bus. Southall bus depot are trying to locate it too. Ryan’s happy to receive calls about it too - 020 8567 1664 Would be so grateful if you can help."

N V Brooks ● 1686d5 Comments ● 1685d

Sneaky LTN backdoor alternative

I read in the paper a new policy adopted on 2 occasions to my knowledge, new road restrictionsFirstly a no left turn sign off Olive Rd (to motorists) to enable access to South Ealing Road.2) is to prevent left turn from Springbridge Rd/Haven Green into Gordon Rd,Effectively closing the road & channelling traffic down the main roads as an alternative to foolhardy LTNs

Peter Yale ● 1703d9 Comments ● 1688d

Is Alex Stafford a pork pie plotter?

Has anyone been keeping tabs on Alex Stafford, formerly of this parish, and his doings in Rother Valley?  It would interesting to know if he was one of the pork pie plotters involved in the coup attempt against Johnson or indeed if he might be considering doing a Christian Wakefield and defecting to Labour. I had a quick scan of his social media and was unable to find any messages of support for the Prime Minister at this difficult time for him.

Gordon Southwell ● 1697d4 Comments ● 1690d

Complaints procedure rewritten to protect the CEO.

Complaints procedure rewritten to protect the CEO.The complaints procedure used to have 3 stages.  It has been reduced to 2.  It will no longer have a stage-three input from the CEO.  Instead, it will go straight to the local Government Ombudsman.  Nice for the CEO.  If the LGO finds the Council guilty of maladministration, the CEO will no longer be implicated.The CEO should be held accountable for anything and everything those under him do.  He is paid enough to take responsibility for their behaviour.   The change was discussed at the cabinet meeting of 10.11.21.  The rationale for trimming away the third stage was that it was found that the stage-three review did not change the outcome for the complainant. The same might be said of stage two, because the officers who review the response of the stage-one respondent (their colleague) act not with the honesty and impartiality required of a public servant but as “counsel for the defence” for their colleague.   The usual trick, even at stage one, is to claim the matter has already been dealt with. At the cabinet meeting, there was no discussion of whether the CEO should not still play a part in the process by being the second-stage respondent. So, now the CEO has no responsibility to investigate the behaviour of the senior officers below him, which one would have thought was one of his functions. The author of the proposal put before the Cabinet for this change was Alison Reynolds,who has control of the complaints procedure.  This is the Alison Reynolds who when asked to investigate a complaint against a senior colleague wrote “I have concluded that all of the matters raised as part of this case have now been addressed”  - even though she was the first person to address them  - and handn’t addressed them and didn’t! The complaints procedure is corrupted by senior officers who protect their senior colleagues by this quick-fix comment (“already dealt with”).  It has become institutionalised by repetition.

Andrew Farmer ● 1690d1 Comments ● 1690d

I hope the next LBE Chief Exec is a "suitably high quality candidate" such as Najsarek was.  🤣

One thing we do know, s/he will possess uncannily strong Left Leanings.That is all!

Rosco White ● 1700d4 Comments ● 1693d