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What's happening to housing?

12:38pm Tuesday 11th November 2008

What’s happening to housing in Ealing and Acton? Like the rest of the country, house prices have been falling, which is a mixed blessing, depending on whether you are trying to get in or out of the market. But given the credit squeeze and the fact that prices are only back to December 2006 levels, there is, in practice, little opportunity for those on low or average incomes to buy. Which makes the subsidised housing market more important in west London than almost anywhere else in the country. Yet the Mayor, council and some housing associations are doing little to help families or single people.

No time for a novice

12:37pm Tuesday 11th November 2008

Since I last wrote this column the financial crisis has certainly got worse, with HBOS taken over by LloydsTSB and Bradford & Bingley nationalised and large fluctuations on the world’s stock markets almost a daily occurrence.

The tonic of music

12:35pm Tuesday 11th November 2008

I thought that I’d reached that stage in life where absolutely nothing had the capacity to amaze me any more when I walked into a fairly typical Ealing home to find a 40-piece philharmonic orchestra, a former England football manager and an eager crowd awaiting the first note of what was billed as The Last Night of the Waldeck Proms.

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Forums for tokenism

10:23am Thursday 18th September 2008

The new football season – even if it does include a well-deserved England call-up for a Fulham player – hasn’t eclipsed the memory of Team GB’s stellar performance at the Olympics.

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Working for ordinary families

10:21am Thursday 18th September 2008

The current economic climate is challenging, to say the least, but it is certainly not as bad as the economic slumps under the Tories in the 1980s and 1990s.

New hope for new season

10:19am Thursday 18th September 2008

The international scene is so profoundly depressing at present that I hope the good readers of the Ealing Times will forgive me for concentrating on matters a little closer to home this week.

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How to cut out knives

10:50am Thursday 14th August 2008

At a time when young people in London and their families are worrying about knife crime and gang culture, Mayor Boris Johnson seems to be spending his time plotting to remove the Police Commissioner.

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Celebrating with the Sisters

10:48am Thursday 14th August 2008

Last month Southall Black Sisters (SBS) won a dramatic victory in the High Court when, after two days of proceedings, Ealing Council withdrew from the case.

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A tax on their profits

10:47am Thursday 14th August 2008

If the utility providers were still public companies – like British Gas, the London Electricity Board and the Water Board were – then central government could control price rises with a stroke of a pen.

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Town Hall must take the lead

3:34pm Friday 18th July 2008

All three town centres in my constituency have been causing controversy this month. The biggest fuss - appropriately - is over Shepherd's Bush where the giant Westfield shopping centre is due to open in November.