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About, like, you know whatever. RSS feed for this section. The Metropolitan Police have released the latest crime statistics for Newham and they don’t make for happy reading, with a 4% year-on-year increase. While robberies and residential burglaries are down, violent crime – murder, assault, rape and other sexual assaults – are all up. As is gun crime – up 27%. Also worrying are the significant increases in hate crime. Yr to June 16. Yr to June 15. Violence Against the Person. Forest Gate North results.
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Money (that’s what I want) | forestgatedotnet
https://forestgate.net/2014/06/13/money-thats-what-i-want
About, like, you know whatever. Money (that’s what I want). The best things in life are free, but you can keep them for the birds and bees. Details of the allowances paid to the mayor and councillors in the last financial year (2013/14) have been published in the ‘ Summer Edition. Version of the table lists councillors in alphabetic order (except the mayor, obviously, who is always on top) and doesn’t include any totals. So it’s hard to see exactly how much is being paid and to whom. There has as yet bee...
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Snouts in the trough – 2013 edition | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. Snouts in the trough – 2013 edition. Last week, without fanfare, Newham council finally published the report on councillors’ expenses and allowances for 2012/13. As the year in question ended at the start of April and the report is dated May 2013, I’m not sure why it took so long to put it into the public domain. The top ten recipients of council tax cash last year were:. R A WALES – 81,029. L T HUDSON – 45,528. I K CORBETT – 42,811. R J CRAWFORD – 42,811. How to get an iP...
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newham | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. The Metropolitan Police have released the latest crime statistics for Newham and they don’t make for happy reading, with a 4% year-on-year increase. While robberies and residential burglaries are down, violent crime – murder, assault, rape and other sexual assaults – are all up. As is gun crime – up 27%. Also worrying are the significant increases in hate crime. Yr to June 16. Yr to June 15. Violence Against the Person. Racist and Religious Hate Crime. The re-run was due t...
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Snouts in the trough – 2015 edition | forestgatedotnet
https://forestgate.net/2015/07/27/snouts-in-the-trough-2015-edition
About, like, you know whatever. Snouts in the trough – 2015 edition. Newham has published its annual report on the allowances paid to councillors. In the previous financial year – April 2014 to March 2015. The report lists all councillors who served in the financial year 2014-15 and as this was an election year it includes those who left office in May 2014, as well as those who were re-elected and those joining council for the first time. Kill them to give us an Excel or .csv file? So who gets the most?
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Number crunching | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. The council is shortly going to consult residents on the 50 million of savings it is going to have to make as the result of central government funding cuts. Here are a few numbers to put that into context:. 8211; amount borrowed in so-called ‘lender option, borrower option’ (LOBO) loans. 8211; ‘cost of capital financing’ (i.e. interest on loans, including LOBOs) in 2014/15 (budget). 8211; cost of buying and refurbishing Newham Dockside as the council’s new HQ. Thanks, this...
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Uncategorized | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. RSS feed for this section. Coming up at the weekend, a timely Freedom of Information response. Has revealed the true cost of the mayor’s ‘free’ events for residents. Over the five years covered that’s a total of. Imagine what else that money could have been spent on. In Tribune arguing that Labour needs to support fair votes. The arrogance of the Labour Party. In denying the right of the electorate a fair vote. A prayer for Owen Smith. In addition, both Newham MPs, Lyn Bro...
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allowances | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. Snouts in the trough – 2015 edition. Newham has published its annual report on the allowances paid to councillors. In the previous financial year – April 2014 to March 2015. The report lists all councillors who served in the financial year 2014-15 and as this was an election year it includes those who left office in May 2014, as well as those who were re-elected and those joining council for the first time. Kill them to give us an Excel or .csv file? So who gets the most?
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Natural order | forestgatedotnet
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About, like, you know whatever. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things. Yep Douglas Adams nailed it. Number crunching →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. E7 Now and Then.
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