Community Groups at Hayes Christmas Festival
Many community groups and local churches joined the Hayes Christmas Festival setting up their stalls and singing carols, including Hayes Town Chapel, Hillingdon's...
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Sahara Fundraising Trek by Local Nurses
A group of local palliative care nurses, including Claire Colman, Claire Young, Liz Bunker, Fiona Hamer and Lorraine Barton, is undertaking a...
Read this entry » Opening of Townfield Community Centre
Last weekend we celebrated the re-opening of Townfield Community Centre in Townfield Road in Hayes. In the 1980s I grant aided the centre when...
Read this entry » Debate on Punjabi Community in Britain
A large number of my constituents are of Punjabi origin. Consequently I am the chair of the All Party Group in Parliament on the Punjabi Community...
Read this entry » Cross Party Consensus that the Economic Crisis will be paid for by Ordinary Working Class Services
In the debate on the Government's Fiscal Responsibility Bill this week a consensus emerged across the main political parties that ordinary working...
Read this entry » Challenging the Consensus
In the debate in Parliament this week on the Government's Fiscal Responsibility Bill there emerged a grotesque consensus across all the main...
Read this entry » New Labour’s Rootless Pretenders
My New Year's resolution is to find time to start blogging again.This is an article I wrote for the Guardian's Comment is Free website. I was...
Read this entry » Fresh Fish Shop Opening is Good News for Hayes in New Year
This month a fresh fish shop has opened Hayes Town Centre. This is really good news for the continuing revival of town centre for the New Year....
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Fair Trade Stall at Hayes Christmas Festival
Local community groups came along to the Hayes Christmas Festival and set up stalls to promote their organisations and raise funds for their causes. The local Fair...
Read this entry »West Drayton Training Band at the Hayes Christmas Festival
The young people, who form the training section of the West Drayton Brass band, came along to paly at the Hayes Christmas Festival as well. The training band provides...
Read this entry »More from the Hayes Christmas Festival
The next school choir singing was Yeading Junior School. (Comments:0)...
Read this entry »Christmas Festival in Hayes Town Centre
This year we have revived the Christmas Festival in Hayes Town Centre. Organised by Hayes FM the festival included church and school choirs singing carols from the...
Read this entry »Switch on of Hayes Town Centre Christmas Lights
Our local Councillors Lynne Allen and Janet Gardner switched on our Christmas lights in Hayes Town Centre on Friday. Minet Junior School choir sang carols and lots...
Read this entry »25th Anniversary Celebrated at Charville Community Centre
Last weekend we celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Charville Community Centre in Bury Avenue, Hayes. The celebrations included an exhibition on the centre's...
Read this entry »Campaign to Restore the Golden Bridge, Hayes
The Golden Bridge in Charville Lane along the Yeading Brook in Hayes is famous for being the site of a demonstration in 1929 involving local people, including the...
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