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Stuart King (Free subscription) | yesterday
I'm pictured above with (from left) Bibi Qureshi, Chris Locke and Janet Grimshaw: Labour's three council candidates for Thamesfield - Putney town centre and riverside. All three are excellent local candidates with years clocked up living in the area, contributing to Putney. Janet Grimshaw lives in Kenilworth Court on Lower Richmond Road with her daughter who went to All Saints School. She's a member...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | yesterday
As anyone who reads this blog regularly will know, housing and the environment are my two main political priorities. The two come together when we talk about the quality of our urban environment in Putney and the far poorer state the Conservatives allow our council estates to be kept in compared to the more affluent areas. In Labour's 2006 manifesto for Wandsworth - which I wrote - we devoted an entire...
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
I had a really fun shoot with this gorgeous brother and sister. We started the shoot at their home where I photographed the two of them upstairs; we played peekaboo and jumped around pretending to be various different animals. The big sister did the best horse impression I think I've ever heard!! Luckily they both warmed to me quickly and seemed to love the camera which made my life nice and easy!...
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I had the pleasure of meeting Shelley and her two lovely boys this morning after I was recommended by two of her NCT friends who I have photographed previously. Her eldest Matthew is 21 months and her baby is 3 months old....so she certainly has her hands full! Matthew was very lively and I had to chase him round the garden kicking balls most of the time! We managed to get this lovely soulful look...
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
I got an email from Clare and Simon a few months ago saying that they wanted to buy some gift vouchers for their Mum for her 60th birthday. Obviously I'm always pleased when I get a new client but I was even more pleased than normal because I went to school with them both and their parents are very good friends with my parents and even came to my wedding! It's always a real treat to photograph people...
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Labourlist (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Full Name: Stuart King Age: 38 From: Born in London, 1970 PPC for: Putney (Tory majority 1,776) Website: www.stuartking.net Selection Result: June 2007: I don’t recall the exact numbers, but it was with over 70% of the vote in the first round. I was a local candidate, a former councillor and invested a lot of time calling round on members. It paid dividends. Member of the Labour Party since:...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Another Roehampton story in last week's Wandsworth Guardian (along with the collapse of the Conservatives' Danebury Avenue demolition plans) was another success story for local policing. Getting more police resources focussed on the Lennox estate, at the top of Priory Lane, has been something I've been working on for months - I reported on it in this special edition of the Putney Paper and it was an...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
There's a scene in the book and film "The Rainmaker" by John Grisham where the defendant in a civil trial has to admit that they wrote to the victim denying their claim for a health insurance payout in these terms: "On seven prior occasions we have denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth time. You must be stupid, stupid, stupid." I have to say that this is how...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Up until a few days ago, Conservatives in Roehampton were delivering a newsletter containing the story above promoting their dreadful demolition plans for Danebury Avenue. Earlier this week the plans were dropped. Talk about the right hand not knowing what the far right hand is doing! Particularly notable is the quote from one of the Tory candidates for Roehampton: "We need to make sure that...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Osiers Gate is the third stage of the Riverside Quarter development, currently being considered by Wandsworth Council planners. A few days ago I reluctantly submitted an objection to this application. I say reluctantly because I recognise that the Enterprise Way part of the development on which Osiers Gate will be built needs to be regenerated and because several aspects of the plan are positive....
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
I had another lovely autumnal shoot on Saturday morning with these gorgeous brothers above and their mum and dad. I was greeted at the door by their eldest, who said to me with a big smile on his face 'I hear you take photos. I bet I have a better camera than you and I can take better photos too.' So it seemed I had competition! I think I earned his respect though when I showed him that I in fact had...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
One of the big blights on Putney - alongside the never-ending potholes - is the amount of flytipping the Conservatives allow to take place here. This was one of the very first issues I raised after being selected: when I was a councillor it was a massive issue in the area I represented for eight years; and I was also responsible as the Labour opposition speaker on environmental issues for trying to...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
I write a lot about the river Wandle - it's important to me because I grew up alongside it in Wandsworth. The Wandle forms much of the eastern boundary of the Putney constituency;but a lot of the western boundary of it is formed by another waterway, Beverley Brook. You can view Beverley Brook at several points around the constituency: it exits into the Thames just past Leader's Gardens; winding between...
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Vicki Knights Photography (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
I had a shoot this morning with this gorgeous little lady who is the grand old age of 14 days old! We actually had the session planned in for next week but as Amelia decided to enter the world a bit early we needed to bring the shoot forward so we could catch up while she's still little. And little she is....still weighing not much over 5lbs....so tiny and cute! Amelia wasn't too keen on participating...
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Stuart King (Free subscription) | 03/10/2009
I spent most of today with Putney Labour Party members choosing our councillor candidates for the six council wards in Putney. There is a real chance that the councillor elections next year could coincide with the general election - in which case you'll have four votes: one for your MP and three to choose your councillors. I can't guarantee this because I don't know the details of every candidate...
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