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Green Earth Garden Services
In short: I’m a happy customer. Highly recommended, especially for the way they don’t try to over-sell extra gardening work, mentioning options without being pushy or misleading. Based in Haringey, they work over a much wider area and also do some weekend slots. Their website, including contact details, is at www.green-earth.com
How are those pot hole repairs going, Haringey Council?
From one 10 minute walk last night, courtesy of the council with the worst roads in the country:
Lynne Featherstone launches petition against loss of services at Whittington Hospital
A news release brings the news: Haringey Liberal Democrats and Lynne Featherstone MP have launched a petition calling on Whittington chiefs to ensure that no hospital services are lost – and no land sold off – without equal or better local replacement services being put in place. The plans to sell off land and relocate [...]
Haringey: third-worst primary schools in London
A Haringey Liberal Democrats story brings the news: Just 58% of children in Haringey go to a good or outstanding primary school compared to 92% in Camden, 91% in Barnet and 89% in Islington.The figures are laid out in a report by Ofsted that compared schools across the country and show Haringey is third worst council [...]
Management errors may see future London vote counts moved from Alexandra Palace
From the Electoral Commission’s report into this May’s London elections: On the morning of 4 May, a test of the sprinkler system at Alexandra Palace disabled the venue’s power supply. The test happened in spite of earlier agreement between the GLRO and the venue management that there would be no test of the system on [...]
Plans for Hornsey Town Hall advance, at last
It must be about a decade since I first wrote a leaflet for the local Liberal Democrats calling on Haringey Council to get a move on with plans to put Hornsey Town Hall back into public use. It’s been quite an eventful tale of different plans since then, and all the time the clock has [...]
Electoral administration isn’t going quite as well as it should…
First, the good news: all the reports so far indicated a strong surge in people registering just before the deadline earlier this month. The Independent has some further figures to add to earlier reports. Thankfully, Havering Council with its hostile approach to people using the Electoral Commission’s website seems to be very much the exception. [...]
