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Last Tuesday evening I attended the Chiswick local area committee for the first time as an observer. As a Group Leader it is useful to maintain and develop an understanding of how local democracy is working across the borough.

Yesterday WinkBall.com dropped by and did a quick interview with me on some of my priorities for the election....

The Council's education department currently advise that "Hounslow’s current predictions show that for September 2010, the council needs to plan for 245 new reception class places, or eight additional classes

The original scheme proposed by ISIS (illustrated on the Igloo website), to whi

The worst fall out from the lack of an effective global agreement on how to address climate change -- and alongside this establish a global strategy on biofuels production -- is the recent fast rise in wheat prices.

The impacts on the Palestinian people is explained in this TV interview last week with an old friend Kirstie Campbell. Kirstie spent the first years of her life in Brentford, and is now a spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP):

Offsetting most of my CO2 emissions for the past year has been on my to do list for several months and today I finally got round to it. Its a crude fix to the climate change problem, but its better than no action at all.

This has been a bad year for me CO2-wise as I booked to go to the February wedding in New Zealand of an old friend, Sol Harris, just before watching Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth last

Much of my first year on the Council has been spent sitting on a scrutiny review panel looking at the current and future state of leisure and culture services in Hounslow. Given that a huge amount of this service area is outsourced to the CIP Group this became the focus of the panel's investigation.

The report has a raft of recommendations including the need for CIP to overhaul its corporate governance and build a membership base to hold trustees accou