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FINAL WARNING.                                                                                                                                                                                                                     If anyone is thinking of joining energy switching company Look After My Bills or energy supply company, Utility Point, please look at their reviews on Look After My Bills Problem Reporting Page and Utility Point Owes Me a Refund on Facebook Groups page. There are thousands of people nationwide that have had nightmare experiences with these companies. Both companies will sign you up within seconds on dedicated signing up landlines but when problems arise it is virtually impossible to contact them. Telephone calls are not connected and emails to them don't get answered. There are many warnings on Trustpilot about these two companies as well. Shockingly Utility Point are under investigation by Trustpilot for offering incentives to people to post positive reviews. Look After My Bills are now also under investigation for doing the same.

Neil Milkins ● 2067d0 Comments ● 2067d

Watch this video and be afraid, very afraid...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR3J2GPvI5vny2ME8c3b3ld2XNtiHJ4NtBSBiB3NFk8VFltWtqVLyeB33Vs&v=w9O8RBgfXnM&feature=youtu.be

Simon Hayes ● 2069d9 Comments ● 2067d

Shameful Gunnersbury Park CIC

Surely Ealing and Hounslow Councils need to call an enquiry into just how Gunnersbury Park is being run.Clearly, it is far from interested in being a community organisation but obsessed with their own agenda and rather deluded.The way in which the Bowls club, a long established club accessible for all, at costs that local people can afford, self financing, run and maintained fully by members for the past 25 years as a result of the complete failure of Ealing and Hounslow to maintain this parks facilities for near 50 years is nasty, ageist and wholly conceited.The silence from Ealing Councillors is yet again, underlining how ageist and removed they are from local community.  Hounslow councillors fare little better but at least have become aware that something fishy is going on with this Organisation.Far too many cosy arrangements to be healthy.I understand that somehow, this Organisation is exempt from any form of open access from Freedom of Information to public accountability. And yet they are funded by grants, awards and ultimately source from taxpayers and public money. None of which has found it's way to the Bowls club or other basic aspects of this park.  But above average salaries for those within the CiC and it's associates remain.Truly appalling. Local people, whether they be interested in Bowls or not, or how a public park with public amenities is being turned into a commercialised profit centre at the expense of basic amenities affordable and accessible for all ought to be asking their elected representatives to ask questions.Bowls is a multicultural genteel sport played all over the world. It is reviving and can be played from a young age right through to old age. Not many Sports than can accommodate that.When it's gone it's gone. A proper sports facility, a public amenity replaced by a Fast food outlet and a sideshow crazy golf. That's not a sport or a public amenity. It is a profit business.Did this not happen with Walpole Park and a Coffee Hut? That was another case of bullying and closed door dealing. And it went wrong. Very Wrong.Especially now that we are being told by authorities to walk, cycle and stay local.

Raymond Havelock ● 2072d8 Comments ● 2070d

I DONT THINK SO>

A HOUSE RENTED TO A TENANT BUT THE BACK GARDEN TO ANOTHE AND THE FRONT GARDEN TO YET ANOTHER. THE TENANCY IS IN FULL ISNT IT?

Oswald Whittle ● 2090d20 Comments ● 2074d

High Court Rules Against Mayor's Bishopsgate Streetspace scheme

The taxi drivers union have been successful in their High Court bid to have the mayor's Streetspace restrictions in the City scrapped. The judge ruled that they weren't very well thought out. If that is now the legal test for the validity of these schemes then some may need to be reconsidered.

Gordon Southwell ● 2098d43 Comments ● 2075d

Ealing Council shamed in the Telegraph

Yesterday our Council featured in the Telegraph, accused of "cultural appropriation" by renaming Havelock Road.  Imagine the distress and embarassment this must cause Julian Bell, the capitalist multi-propery owning Leader of the Council. Criticised in the Telegraph.  What will his big business friends think!Members of the Sikh community were criticising the renaming of the road for religious reasons in responses to the flawed "consultation" that took place. Their complaints  were supressed in the Council's report on the consultation.  What the Telegraph is not aware of is the devious means by which the Council foisted the expense of the change onto the council-tax payers,  our money used as a bribe to keep Sothhall members onside.    

Andrew Farmer ● 2087d5 Comments ● 2076d

Yellow Amazombie Locker Landed on our Pavement Outside Co-Op

Outside our Co-Op on Greenford Avenue, a huge yellow monolith has appeared. I wonder if they had permission?It's big, and it's ugly, and it reminds me that we are allowing billionaires to destroy our businesses and avoid any social responsibilities.I recently discovered World of Books. They buy unsold inventory of used books from UK charity shops. So far they've had every book I've wanted. I deleted my Amazombie account.

Alan Anderson ● 2082d11 Comments ● 2076d

A lot of sirens

There seem a lot more sirens than usual - or maybe I'm just noticing it more?

M Powes ● 2082d1 Comments ● 2077d

Starved dogs

Is anyone else unhappy about the graphic photos pertaining to the above?

Simon Wycombe ● 2080d8 Comments ● 2078d

Look After My Bills Nightmare.

This is a post from today (Monday 8 February) put on the Facebook page, Look After My Bills Problem Reporting Page by B**** Orm***"After initially being attracted by the promise of finding consumers the best market deal and starting the registration process, I read some worrying reviews and immediately cancelled - told LAMB that I had changed my mind and did not want them to look after my bills. Subsequently I continued to receive emails saying I had been transferred, causing me grief and frustration. I again informed them that I did not want LAMB to look after my bills and also emailed my current supplier to tell them I did not want LAMB to transfer me and that I wished to remain with Coop Energy. LAMB continued to email me about my transfer. What a nightmare! Fortunately Coop Energy stepped in on my behalf. This was quite some time ago and I continued to receive email from them but I have blocked them. Neil I wish you luck. Once they get their claws in you they fill your life with worry and anxiety. Relentless!"                                                                                                                                                                     For some reason, Money Saving Expert Martin Lewis on Saturday 6 February urged energy users to use switching companies such as Look After My Bills to try to get cheaper energy.                               All I can say is, before you consider doing this look at the Facebook groups page Look after My Bills Problem Reporting Page and Trustpilot, Look After My Bills reviews before making a decision you may regret for months to come.

Neil Milkins ● 2079d2 Comments ● 2078d

SA variant in Ealing since December

So the latest bit of bad news to add to the stubbornly high cases and slow vaccine roll out as well as the low uptake.Never mind though it has only been here for a month so it is unlikely to have spread.

M Powes ● 2085d20 Comments ● 2082d

More ANPR cameras to be installed LTN 30 is a problem

Thank you Ealingtoday for reporting this. I am not a road traffic professional but I worked in the safety industry and carried a Home Office warrant for some time and took courses at university in the psychology of perception. I've held a clean licence for 55years.I would strongly recommend the council review this ANPR camera at least before rushing to put in more. 1)There are 4 routes to the barrier in Culmington Road yet only one speed camera warning sign. That one is positioned after the camera at the barrier. In normal life warnings are given BEFORE the danger i.e. before the camera that allows the message to sink-in and appropriate action be taken.  The camera sign is often linked to speed cameras and many motorists probably check their speedometer when they see one; a dangerous detraction. 2)There are warning signs "No access to Culmington Road ahead except cycles". For strangers that means nothing. One sign is even sited IN Culmington Road. Strangers won't know what it means and even the Council have made 3 road name mistakes in public notices. These are "unique signs" and have to be interpreted by the motorist. Standard signs showing road closed ahead would have been cheaper and carried more information at a glance. Motorists absorb standard signs without thinking; subliminally. There should have been standard signs on each of the 4 limbs approaching this junction. To be continued

Arthur Breens ● 2104d36 Comments ● 2083d

Just why are so very few over 85s getting vaccinated?

In Ealing it is dire.Not even a date for those over 85s and reports of very selective invites.GPs with just a handful of vaccines and it's now a third week.Yet other boroughs are now moving to the 70-79 group.Not a word on Ealing's website. Not a word on how an 85 yr old with must attend Hospital appointments is supposed to be vaccinated prior? As per the NHS and Gov website advice.Nothing from Ealing Council or NHS CCG.Theres a deserted football stadium at the border of Ealing. Sitting there ready. Still serviceable It can be used for parking residents cars for a film shoot next week so why not as a mass vaccination centre for Brentford and South Ealing , Boston Manor and Northfields?The silence and lack of any information being supplied to GPs and elderly over 80s is really poor.Why?

Raymond Havelock ● 2111d27 Comments ● 2083d

Covid-19 Rates on the up in Ealing

For the first time, the rate per 100,000 in Ealing (258.3) is now above the national average (257.3),

Ian Fergus ● 2161d87 Comments ● 2084d

TfL and covid-19

Never thought I would side with the transport unions but the TfL demand that workers within in the identified high-risk covid-19 variant zones continue to go to work is nonsensical.Our hapless mayor constantly bemoans the plight of TfL workers and yet as head of TfL allows this demand to be made. Incompetence at its purest and I do hope the TfL workers simply ignore their bosses in this instance

N V Brooks ● 2084d0 Comments ● 2084d

Best Chinese food delivery in Ealing

Does anyone have favourite Chinese food delivery service that caters for the Ealing area? It doesn't necessarily have to be on Deliveroo, Just Eat  or Uber Eats.

Tricia Arbuthnot ● 2112d5 Comments ● 2085d

Ealing's reliance on parking fine income betrays Labour party principles

Probably not a surprise that Ealing is one of the highest issuer of parking fines in the country according to a report on currently on this site. Judging by a ticket place on a car parked near my home, enforcement continues unabated despite the supposed lockdown.It is no longer worth pretending these fines don't act as a local tax with the revenue being used to cover the shortfall in Council Tax and government grant funding.PCNs are not adjusted for income so you get the same for parking in the wrong place at the wrong time if you have a Fiat Uno or a Ferrari. It will be argued that as the very poorest in society don't tend to own cars then as a tax this is a reasonably point. However, people who need to use cars for their work will tend to be on below or around average income with a large proportion of fines going to those in the building trade, carers, minicab or delivery drivers.Better off drivers probably make up the bulk of people who successfully appear these fines.Some will say that it is a voluntary tax and if you can't afford to pay it obey the rules. Our family have received two parking fines over the last decade in Ealing - in both cases we had thought we had parked correctly in areas we were familiar with but the signs were misleading. Appeals were dismissed out of hand and no attempt was made to improve the signage. Very few people parking in Ealing will do so on the basis they hope to get away with it because by now most are aware how intensive enforcement is so most fines are issued to people who have made a genuine mistake.This effectively means that the parking fines operate as a highly regressive tax something that is directly opposed to the founding principles of the Labour party. Yet it seems to be Labour authorities, like Ealing that use this most as a method of raising finance. I appreciate that this is a challenging time for council finances but the over dependence of this borough on this form of income is not healthy or fair on residents.

Mark Evans ● 2098d8 Comments ● 2090d

Getting Back on Your Bike/Cycle

Here are some tips put together by cyclists:https://www.lcc.org.uk/pages/cycling-advice-2020There is also lots of info about cycling here including courses and the popular free Dr Bike maintenance and about different cycles and deals for trying out cycles:https://www.ealing.gov.uk/info/201173/transport_and_parking/150/cycling/1

Philippa Bond ● 2125d51 Comments ● 2091d

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS.For some people it is not bearable to think about, or to plan for their own funeral or for that of their spouse. However in these uncertain times I believe it is a responsible thing to do to take some of the pressure and grief off family members by not leaving things to late. Myself and my wife have taken steps to leave very little for our family members to worry about regarding these arrangementsWe have taken steps to arrange Pure Cremation funerals which was catapulted into the news a few years ago by singer David Bowie. For instance, if I die first, my wife will contact a funeral director in Hampshire. They will take care of all the arrangements needed. I would be collected from my home or from anywhere else and taken to Hampshire to to the funeral director's own private crematorium for disposal. No flowers, no family present and no funeral service. Arrangements have already been made for a memorial service shortly after my death.The benefits of doing things this way is that the cost to my wife and family is minimal. If I die at home the cost of the complete funeral arrangement is £1195.00 or £1.445 if I die in hospital or nursing home. The average cost of a cremation funeral in the UK is £3,986, sometimes thousands more.Being a very competitive business I am sure that some funeral directors would charge less than £1195.00.Nobody wants to die, but time and unforeseen events befall us all. In the mean time wash your hands and socially distance.

Neil Milkins ● 2092d0 Comments ● 2092d

Are LBe using LTN cameras to see other image data?

Can anyone throw light on the revelation that Ealing Council are selling image data gathered from LTN and other similar cameras to third party Data  companies, Thus using images of not just cars but cyclists and people without their knowledge or permission?This sounds truly disgusting.  How can this be checked?

Raymond Havelock ● 2095d5 Comments ● 2093d