H&F News

Meeting to Launch NHS Closures

June 23, 2012

              From next April most of the familiar parts of the NHS will disappear to be replaced by Andrew Lansley’s new Commissioning Boards.  Ostensibly run by local GPs, these will in fact be anonymous bodies spread across London staffed by bureaucrats and supported by privatised services.  For instance, the [...]

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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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Saving homes in West Kensington & Gibbs Green Estate

June 30, 2011

I have recently written to both Capco and the leader of LBHF, to point out that 2/3rds of households on the threatened West Kensington and Gibbs Green Estates have joined the West Ken & Gibbs Green Community Homes group, launched to enable residents to take over the leases of their homes and prevent Capco and [...]

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Izvestia

June 17, 2011

LBHF’s Pravda Mark 2 has been getting a bad press itself lately since local blogger Chris Underwood revealed the trouble they have got into with their own Government over breaching new restrictions on council propaganda.  On Sunday I will be on the Politics Show discussing this with a local Tory Councillor, Greg Smith. New guidelines [...]

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Pravda reborn

May 3, 2011

I had a very friendly meeting with the Chronicle’s owners last week. We had something to celebrate – the demise of H&FNews.  Now it is dead it seems even more monstrous than when it slid through our letterboxes. A state-subsidised propaganda sheet to tell you lies about every local issue of importance. It is a [...]

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Dosvedanya Pravda

April 11, 2011

aka ‘Pravda’ Ends As It Began – With a Big Lie Deceit and hypocrisy have been the journalistic watchwords of H&F News since it began sliding through our letterboxes five years ago.  In that time millions in taxpayers’ money has been spent on a vanity publishing exercise that has ranged from political bias to nauseating [...]

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Andy’s eNews

July 16, 2010

Politics and protest return to Hammersmith Tonight sees the first response by residents in Hammersmith & Fulham to the unprecedented cuts in local services announced in the three weeks since the budget. Over 100 voluntary and community groups are threatened with closure because they are losing their income, premises or both.  Many are meeting outside [...]

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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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Tories Promise to cut their own Propaganda

March 15, 2010

I recently wrote to  the Tory local government spokeswoman, Caroline Spelman, to congratulate her on her excellent speech condemning councils who publish newspapers designed to replace the local press with propaganda.  As residents will know, H&FNews is one of the country’s worst offenders. Below is a copy of the letter I wrote to Mrs. Spelman [...]

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