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[Blogs] BNP Upsurge Arrested In Barking and Dagenham (Labourhome)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:41:06 GMT

Well at least there’s one bit of good news from last night’s by election in The London Borough of Barking and Dagenham. Fears of a BNP upsurge on the back of their London Assembly Member, already strong base in the council in B and D and their overtaking Labour last week in Henley were allayed. The official results are here: Results for the Chadwell Heath Ward By-Election Terry Justice Conservative...

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On the Knocker in B and D (Rupa Huq's home on the web)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 10:14:47 GMT

John Gray reports here with pictures on canvassing at the weekend in the St Marks Gate ward in the Chadwell Heath area of Barking and Dagenham. There’s a council by-election on Thursday and the BNP who are standing are likely to be bouyed up by their Henley result (although they lost their deposit there too). The other two ward [...]

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Give up smoking - by text (SMS Text News)

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:39:25 GMT

A recent service by GPS in Barking and Dagenham to target people who want to give up smoking has apparently seen great response rates from patients when targeted by text message. The service, run by iPLATO, is being used to ask patients what there current smoking ’status’ is. The idea is that those who have been identified [...]

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Barking and Dagenham Set Up Hate Crime Hotline (MayorWatch)

Sun, 11 May 2008 01:38:39 GMT

Residents of Barking and Dagenham who have been the victim or witness of a hate crime will soon be able to report the incident directly to a dedicated helpline commissioned by the local Council.

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Confessing to the cops can get convicts sex with wives! (Thaindian News)

Fri, 02 May 2008 10:52:29 GMT

London, May 2 (ANI): Three cops, based in Barking and Dagenham, took a prisoner on a jaunt out to have sex with his wife as his reward for confessing his crimes. The prisoner, who was accused of battering his wife, was released for a day despite being on remand. Anti-corruption cops, who were keeping an eye [...]

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BNP councillor - pull the plug on local newspapers (Theo's blog)

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:16:00 GMT

Hat-tip to Recess Monkey for this scoop on the BNP in Barking . According to the Ilford Recorder, Cllr. Bob Bailey - the Deputy Leader no less of the BNP on Barking and Dagenham Council - launched a verbal attack on the newspaper's reporter after complaints about biased coverage. Now, I'm sure all councillors have felt a bit hurt from time to time by biased or shoddy by local papers. However,...

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BNP Cllr brands journalist “Nazi” (RecessMonkey)

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 15:33:15 GMT

Cllr Bob Bailey, Deputy Leader of the BNP group on Barking and Dagenham Council was today caught up in scandal after suggesting the local paper was biased against the BNP. In a verbal attack peppered with four-letter words, the former Royal Marine accused the Recorder of bias and called journalist Sally Lowe, 29, a jobsworth. [...]

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Asbestos Support Group Calls On Victims (Articles Database)

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:44:23 GMT

As people are becoming more and more aware of the damage asbestos exposure is causing those who were around it before it got banned, the Barking and Dagenham Asbestos Victims Support Group are launching an appeal for former residents and workers to get in contact with them. This is so they can compile a record [...]

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You can be gay behind closed doors says BNP (PinkNews.co.uk)

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 12:34:20 GMT

The British National Party candidate for Mayor of London has given a wide-ranging interview to the BBC. Richard Barnbrook is a Barking and Dagenham councillor, along with eleven BNP colleagues. He told the BBC: "You can be gay behind closed doors, you can be heterosexual behind closed doors, but you don't bring it onto the streets, demanding more rights for it."

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'We do not have thousands of Nazis running around' (The Guardian)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:10:14 GMT

The Labour MP Jon Cruddas talks to the Guardian about the BNP and politics in Barking and Dagenham prior to the London elections

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Video: 'We do not have thousands of Nazis running around' (The Guardian)

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:10:14 GMT

The Labour MP Jon Cruddas talks to the Guardian about the BNP and politics in Barking and Dagenham prior to the London elections

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Building Schools for the Future, and building consensus today (MSDN Blogs)

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 07:51:33 GMT

At the NAACE conference I ran into an old friend, Sheyne Lucock, who is the General Inspector for BSF (Building Schools for the Future) and ICT at Barking and Dagenham Local Authority. Sheyne has always been somebody who's done things "his own way" - not concerned about what way the crowd is going, and very focused on what is right for his schools in the area. One of the most visible examples...

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NHS Trust unveils gay-specific cancer information (PinkNews.co.uk)

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 15:30:28 GMT

A Primary Care Trust in London has produced information leaflets about cancer specifically for lesbians and gay men. This is the first time an NHS organisation has produced such leaflets. The Barking and Dagenham Primary Care Trust developed them in association with the Gay and Lesbian Association of Doctors and Dentists (GLADD). Entitled Gay Men and Cancer and Lesbians and Cancer, they are...

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One-stop shop tackling smoking (BBC News)

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:44:12 GMT

Barking and Dagenham is aiming to cut its smoking-related death rate with London's first one-stop shop to help people quit.

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Dagenham & Redbridge (the groundhog)

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:44:41 GMT

Ground: London Borough of Barking and Dagenham Stadium Date: Tuesday 12th February 2008, 7.45 pm League: League Two Result: Dagenham & Redbridge 6 Chester City 2 HT: 3-0 Att: 1,328 Strevens 13, 60 Uddin 15 Roberts 51, Murphy 90 (Chester scored 1st) Rainford 23 Nurse 83 Hall 90 Additional: Entrance £15 Programme £2.50 Hot drinks £1.00 Luckily for me my work were sending me on a [...]

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Talking CCTV comes to London (London Logue)

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:32:14 GMT

Britain is the world leader when it comes to CCTV with more cameras filming its citizens going about their every day business than anywhere else. Now Barking and Dagenham in east London has become the first borough in the capital to introduce talking CCTV. They've spent £25,000 fitting loudspeakers to existing cameras and will be used [...]

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Suburbia (Tim Worstall)

Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:22:34 GMT

Suburbia has of late been home to shootings (Croxteth, Merseyside and Letchworth, Hertfordshire), suicide bombers (Beeston, Leeds), playground stabbings (Edgware, Middlesex), assertive ethnic workers (the Gate Gourmet staff at Heathrow) and an electorally advancing far right (Barking and Dagenham). Eh? Barking and Dagenham, suburbs? Letchworth was a New Town (very much the opposite of...

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BNP Ballet Groupie: the Lewisham Connection (Transpontine)

Thu, 27 Dec 2007 15:45:00 GMT

The papers have been full recently of the story of the relationship between Simon Clarke, English National Ballet dancer, and Richard Barnbrook , British National Party councillor in Barking and Dagenham and the party's prospective candidate for Mayor of London. Among the ironies of this story is that Clarke has a mixed-race daughter and Barnbrook has previously gone on record as saying that...

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BNP ballerina to marry BNP barmcake (Liberal Burblings)

Wed, 19 Dec 2007 18:28:00 GMT

Good luck to them: The ballerina and British National Party activist Simone Clarke is to wed a fellow far-right party councillor, her new fiance announced today. Clarke will marry Richard Barnbrook, a councillor in Barking and Dagenham and the party's candidate for mayor of London, whom she met after he came to support her during anti-fascist protests of her performances as Giselle in London...

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From Barking to Barnes and a Battersea Barn Dance (Jonathan Fryer)

Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:58:50 GMT

Yesterday I was in full campaign mode, thankful that the London weather is unseasonably mild and sunny. In the morning, I was out delivering residents’ surveys in Eastbury ward in Barking and Dagenham, which the LibDems used to hold, before the recent local surge of the BNP — a situation London region is keen to [...]

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