Fulham

The Tories in Hammersmith & Fulham are still claiming Labour's successes while neglecting public services

Labourlist (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009

By Toby Flux In September we highlighted that Channel 4 News may have been hoodwinked by Hammersmith and Fulham’s ruling Conservatives. Today we can reveal that it looks like another journalist has also recently been taken in by false claims from the service-cutting Conservative council. In an article entitled Council tax freeze in London may be hint of a Conservative future The Times’...

• Hammersmith and Fulham Tories ‘hoodwink’ The Times - Labour Matters

Is Hammersmith and Fulham a taste of things to come?

A Change of Personnel (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009

Local Authority budgets will be much tighter in the next few years whoever in is power, but is the Conservative controlled Hammersmith and Fulham Council the sort of blueprint all Local Authorities will be adhering too after the next election. To be fair the Council has delivered lower Council Tax but also innovation and cost cutting – jobs and service cuts in ordinary speak something all Local...

GP–led, seven–days–a–week service, opens at Charing Cross Hospital

Wellbeing Newsline: Greater London (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009

Fulham health centre treats minor injuries and illnesses Edited by Nick Adams: Local residents in West London should benefit from easier access to GPs and emergency medical care since a new 24–hour health centre opened at Charing Cross Hospital recently. The Fulham Centre for Health works alongside the emergency department to provide urgent care for people with minor injuries and illnesses. In...

• Hertfordshire youngsters to benefit from new mental health facility - Wellbeing Newsline: Hertfordshire
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Chard increases property advertising in Hammersmith & Fulham

Chard London Sales & Lettings Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009

Chard has just taken four pages in the Hammersmith and Fulham newspaper to further increase exposure for our clients' properties when selling and letting in this area of west London. We feel this is especially important as stocks of properties available for sale and to rent across Hammersith and Fulham are falling. In simple terms we're selling and letting faster than new properties are coming onto...

Fulham v Chelsea - live!

The Guardian (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009

Hit refresh for the latest or set your browser to automatically update with the button below. Email any quips, queries or other musings over to barney.ronay@guardian.co.uk Roy Hodgson has just said both teams play "in the borough of Fulham". An early blow struck in the pre-match mind games for the honourable 1960s cockney bankrobber Cottagers manager. Although technically it's the borough...

Craven Cottage

London Passenger (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Craven Cottage is the name of a sports stadium in the Hammersmith and Fulham area that has been the home ground of the association football team Fulham F.C. since 1896. The capacity of the stadium was increased to 25,500 following cosmetic repairs. Fulham's highest all-seated attendance to date of 25,661 was recorded in their 0-1 defeat against Liverpool on Saturday 4 April 2009. It is located next...

Andrew Gilligan on council newspapers in the London Evening Standard: fantastic article

newsjiffy (Free subscription) | 27/07/2009

Must-read article in the London Evening Standard from Andrew Gilligan on council newspapers, which he describes as contributing to the death of local papers. Gilligan highlights their free delivery and subsidised advertising rates, enabling them to survive at a time when local papers are cutting back staff. He also focuses on the bias towards the ruling group on the council and their activities, giving...

Hammersmith & Fulham Council accused of "social cleansing"

theRatandMouse (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009

A freedom of information request by Andrew Slaughter, MP for Ealing, Acton and Shepherd's Bush, shows notes of presentations to senior Tory figures made by Stephen Greenhalgh, Tory leader of Hammersmith and Fulham council, which suggest limiting social housing...

• Tory borough accused of 'social cleansing' - The Guardian

Alphabet soup in London’s property conundrum

Malaysia Property News (Free subscription) | 04/07/2009

There are some places where only the rich can afford, where politicians, footballers and Russians congregate. Some of London’s prime areas include Notting Hill, Chelsea, Bayswater, Kensington, Knightsbridge, St John Wood, Hyde Park and West Hampstead. Savills director Edward Lewis serves up some alphabet soup to give a broad overview of the different areas and how they rate. Instead of an A or...

So you can cut taxes and boost services

John Redwood's Diary (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008

The following press release has just been sent out by Conservative run Hammersmith and Fulham Council in London: Council tax to fall by 3% — third year in a row COUNCIL tax bills are set to tumble by three per cent for the THIRD year in a row at Hammersmith & Fulham Council as a major help [...]