TORIES WOULD ROB YOUNG AND OLD OF FREE TRAVEL! NASTY PARTY NEVER WENT AWAY!

The Tories in London are trying to cut London's free bus and tram travel scheme for children under 18 in full time education. The scheme was supported by 8/10 Londoners and has helped hundreds of thousands of families save as much as £350 per year. The Tories are desperate to make cuts to travel concessions across the board and have also been attacking the Freedom Pass, which gives free public transport in London to older people and the disabled. London is the only major world city to achieve a shift of people from cars to public transport. Free travel contributes to the public transport culture that's required if we are to keep the city moving. Margaret Thatcher once said, 'When I see a man of 25 riding the bus, I see a man who has failed in his life.' This anti-public transport attitude still pervades the Tory party today. Beneath the thin veneer of Cameron's Green conversion, it has not changed! The nasty party never went away!

Winter Wonderland in the Brent River Valley Park

This beautiful scene at Bowles Bridge was captured on Thursday, 8th February 2007 when the Brent River Park was covered in a beautiful white blanket of snow. Local children, given the day off school, revelled on the small slopes of the golf course with makeshift toboggans and snowmen and snowballs abounded.Bowles Bridge (or Boles or Bulls) is believed to be named after John Bowles, the owner of Dormers Wells Manor in the reign of Elizabeth 1. It is thought that this crossing may have been used by the Romans and indeed, a Roman inscribed stone was found in the garden of "The Hermitage" nearby. The spire of St. Mary's Church (built in 1841) is just visible in the background.

HOT ON FLY-TIPPING? 'WHAT A LOAD OF OLD RUBBISH!'

This has become the unfortunate, all too common sight for sore eyes on the Borders Rd at the junction with Greenford Ave and is just one of the many examples of the Conservative Council's failure to deliver on its promise to deal with illegal fly-tipping. Rubbish is being left to accumulate to unacceptable levels and is encouraging other forms of anti-social behaviour to occur, to the great dismay of neighbouring residents, who say the neglect has led to an upsurge in graffiti and crime and is a constant blight on their lives. We say a two-pronged attack combining prompt removal with vigorous enforcement should be easily achievable if the Council cared as much for Hanwell as it does about other more affluent parts of the borough.