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Phil Taylor (Free subscription) | 21/09/2008
Apparently Ealing Southall MP Virendra Sharma jointly signed the letter which fellow MP Keith Vaz wrote to a judge in June urging the High Court to delay proceedings involving solicitor Shahrokh Mireskandari. Mireskandair was challenging a court order to pay £400,000 in costs to the liquidator of an airline. Vaz and Sharma asked for [...]
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Head of Legal (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Rahila Gupta in today's Guardian writes about the victory of Southall Black Sisters in its judicial review a couple of weeks ago: Ealing Council had wanted to cut its support for the organisation in order to fund another means of domestic violence provision not targeted at black and Asian women. Well, it looks as though Ealing went about this the wrong way procedurally and without properly
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 28/07/2008
Rahila Gupta: Following a victory for Southall Black Sisters, Ealing council now has to rethink its policy on domestic violence services
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by Samm (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
Anyone want to join me tomorrow, I'll be shaking a bucket to raise funds for Aldo Diana mission to row the Atlantic single handed for charity. 20 firefighters will be pulling a fire engine between Southall and Ealing Fire stations and hopefully I'll manage the 3 mile walk alongside them (I don't know how these people manage these challenges!!!), does anyone want to join me? if so email me, the link...
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East Grinstead Courier (Free subscription) | 24/07/2008
Athletics: East Grinstead Athletics Club's senior mens team went to Bracknell last Saturday for their fourth league match of the season, competing against the home club, Ealing & southall and herne hill harriers. with two third places and one last place in the previous three matches east grinstead were hovering just above the relegation places - all three of their opponents were much higher in the...
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Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
A blog entitled disabled feminist reports that the High Court battle mounted by Southall Black Sisters appealing the decision of Tory Ealing Council to withdraw their funding has ended in the council pulling out from their case. DF puts it down to a victory for Facebook and includes a rhyme about this victory for SBS [...]
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The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 22/07/2008
Sorry, a bit delayed, but to officially report: SBS has won their court case. From their press release: "UPDATE: Southall Black Sisters" Victory against Ealing Council "'There is no dichotomy between funding specialist services and cohesion; equality is necessary for...
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Liberal Conspiracy (Free subscription) | 21/07/2008
It was back in April this year that Ealing Council voted to withdraw funding from Southall Black Sisters , a women's support group, on the spurious grounds that targeting services at black and minority ethnic groups ran contrary to the "equality" and "integration" agenda. On Friday it lost its court case.
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Pickled Politics (Free subscription) | 19/07/2008
I’ve hear from a friend that Ealing Council has backed down over its much condemned decision to cut funding for Southall Black Sisters. No surprise the decision came from a Conservative ran council, but I bet they were surprised at the strength of the opposition to their plans. The demonstration in support of SBS was [...]
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SOCIALIST UNITY (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
SBS have won their battle against Ealing Council: Ealing Council has conceded defeat in a landmark hearing brought by a number of women helped by Southall Black Sisters (SBS), which supports victims from ethnic minority groups. Speaking outside the courtroom, Pragna Patel, the organisation’s chairman, said: “We feel vindicated because we feel the council has accepted that they [...]
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The F-Word Blog (Free subscription) | 18/07/2008
Yesterday and today protestors are gathering outside the High Court in support of Southall Black Sisters, as the case is heard on whether Ealing Council broke the Race Relations Act when it acted to effectively pull funding from SBS...
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Rupa Huq's home on the web (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
Found myself over the weekend at a party thrown by Virenrda Sharma to commemorate the passing of his first year anniversary as MP for Ealing Southall. On the top table were a number of big names: former long-serving Ealing councillor Hilary Benn, millionaire Labour donor Lord Paul and a Canadian MP who happened to be [...]
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Phil Taylor (Free subscription) | 11/07/2008
I cycled over to the Brilliant restaurant in Southall this morning to take part in the launch do for this year’s Mela. Council leader Jason Stacey introduced the Mayor who recounted his limited experience of Bhangra style dancing at a cousin’s wedding in Delhi. According to Boris it goes: “lightbulb, lightbulb, motorbike, motorbike”. [...]
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New Statesman (Free subscription) | 10/07/2008
All the gossip from the Westminster Village Spied exiting Druggie Dave's office was that political disaster, Tony Lit, the Rolls-Royce-driving playboy who crashed in last July's Ealing Southall by-election after Labour exposed him happily posing with Tony Blair a few months earlier. My informant whispered that David Cameron wishes to keep his accident-prone protégé sweet, toying with the idea of dressing...
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What A Healty Weight (Free subscription) | 09/07/2008
The potentially deadly pills being sold under the counter include Vigora, Proxyron and Kamagra. Kamagra oral jelly is alsoIn recent days trading standards officers working buy kamagra online have seized nearly 1600 tablets from one shop in Southall, the same Ealing community where 2000 tablets were seized three weeks ago. Authorities believe the fake pillsAt Boots the chemist, which began selling Viagra...
