H&F Chronicle

Dirty tricks as West Ken residents defend their homes

July 26, 2011

In a move that even seasoned Hammersmith watchers found shocking, the Council sold several thousand of its residents and their homes to a property developer for £15 million last week.  Yes, this really happened:  CapCo, the giant property company that wants to build 27 storey blocks of luxury flats on the site of two council [...]

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Pravda Mark III

July 4, 2011

    The Council’s latest attempt to get round their own Government’s restrictions on propaganda is a 72 page glossy that makes H&F News read like the Independent. All your favourites are here – promos for the council’s preferred developers, lots of photographs of  Tory councillors, and the council leader’s own “vision” for the future. [...]

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Commons Select Committee Slams H&FNews

April 6, 2010
Protestors outside Hammersmith Town Hall

The Tory council’s propaganda paper, H&FNews, suffered a deserved blow this morning with the publication of a Commons Select Committee report on the future of Local and Regional Media. The committee, chaird by members of the Conservative party, used Hammersmith and Fulham’s publication as an example of councils seeking shameless self-promotion. Publications such as H&FNews [...]

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Proper Paper Not Propaganda

March 26, 2010
Fulham Chronicle Front Cover 26th March 2010

The Hammersmith and Fulham Chronicle have renewed their attack on the council’s own propaganda sheet costing close to £7,000 every issue. The Chronicle’s campaign for ‘Proper Papers Not Propaganda’ is growing strength and you can help their efforts by signing up to the petition or by reading more about the Chronicle’s case at their website. [...]

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Andy Slaughter’s eNews #63

December 8, 2009

New Web Campaigns Local Events Parliament Politics Developers Corner

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Changing the face of the borough

November 26, 2009
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This article appears in the November 26th edition of the Fulham Chronicle A letter in last week’s Chronicle gave a timely reminder to politicians that their accountability doesn’t start and end on election day.  What power we have we exercise on trust not on personal or political whims, and it is strictly temporary. That basic [...]

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Local Investment

October 15, 2009
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Article Published on the 15th of October in the Fulham Chronicle Last week I attended the re-opening of John Perryn School in East Acton.

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Column in the Hammersmith & Fulham Chronicle

September 25, 2009
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The below article appears in the current edition of the Hammersmith & Fulham Chronicle. If you are reading this, it is because you have gone to your newsagent and handed over 55p.   Good for you: we are fortunate to still have two local papers exclusively serving the borough, each with a century or more of [...]

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Andy’s MP Column for the Fulham and Hammersmith chronicle

July 23, 2009
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Battle is now joined on the future of Hammersmith & Fulham.  Last Friday the council’s consultation on how the borough should change over the next 20 years ended.  Don’t be surprised if this is the first you heard of it – they have been at pains to keep it quiet, like most of their consultations [...]

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New plan for the borough gives free rein to developers

June 12, 2009
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from the Hammersmith & Fulham Chronicle Last week Hammersmith & Fulham’s Conservative council published what it described as its ‘vision’ for how the borough should develop over the next 20 years.  It is no exaggeration to say that if even partly executed it would be a nightmare for everyone who values their current quality of [...]

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