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Town Hall asbestos: Unison’s statement on today’s verdict

May 29, 2015 Town Hall asbestos

PRESS RELEASE UNISON in Waltham Forest Embargo: None Date: 29th May 2015 THE LONDON BOROUGH OF WALTHAM FOREST FINED £66,000 FOR FAILING TO MANAGE ASBESTOS SAFELY AND PUTTING ITS EMPLOYEES HEALTH AT RISK The London Borough of Waltham Forest was fined today at Southwark Crown Court following their pleading guilty to two Charges under the Health and safety at Work Act 1974 section 2(1) and section 3(1), namely failure to protect their employees and failure to protect the public with a further two charges specifically relating to the Control of Asbestos regulations 2006 and 2012 regulation 4(8) which relate to the failure to manage asbestos in the Town Hall basement. Waltham forest Council had a... »

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LBWF and the Town Hall asbestos scandal: new evidence emerges

May 27, 2015 Town Hall asbestos

LBWF is due in Southwark Crown Court on Friday 29 May for sentencing over its conviction for breaking health and safety legislation in relation to asbestos in the Town Hall. In the subsequent fall-out, further questions no doubt will be asked about how LBWF interacted with NPS London Ltd, since in formal terms the latter was a key player in the authority’s Asbestos Policy (for which see the ‘documents’ tab). It is already established that (a) policy or no policy, there was a good deal of confusion about the asbestos in the Town Hall, the dates when reports were received, who exactly was supposed to manage what, etc.; and (b) Shifa Mustafa (described by Chief Executive Martin Esom... »

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Cllr. Pye: going, going…gone?

May 11, 2015 Cllr. Marie Pye, the Labour Party in Waltham Forest

Word reaches me that Cllr. Pye’s position is becoming ever more tenuous, that she has been stripped of her Scrutiny position, and has one foot on the trap-door. In happier times, Cllr Pye was a member of the ruling troika, and held important Cabinet portfolios. Cllrs Loakes and Robbins dwelt on her every word. Indeed, she was Leytonstone’s very own Cleopatra, hectoring public meetings whilst reclining on a council-supplied chaise longue (manhandled in by two dutiful retainers). Oh, the fun of yesteryear. Oh, how the mighty have fallen. »

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Tower Hamlets’ grand finale: ‘four brave Davids beat the lying corrupt Goliath’

April 24, 2015 Lutfur Rahman, Tower Hamlets

The judge’s verdict is here: http://trialbyjeory.com/2015/04/23/tower-hamlets-election-court-judge-richard-mawrey-qcs-full-ruling/ It’s long but worth reading, not just because of the comparisons that inevitably arise with Waltham Forest, but also because there are barbs in all directions, especially concerning the Labour Party’s modi operandi; the way that the ‘left’ has become addicted to the epithet ‘racist’, brandishing it at every opportunity; and the absurd logic deployed by council officers in some cases to illegitimately protect their employers. For the four brave citizens who pursued the petition, see here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uk... »

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LBWF and asbestos: how those potentially most affected are treated

April 23, 2015 Town Hall asbestos

A correspondent who worked in the Town hall for a number of years writes as follows: ‘After over a dozen emails and three interventions by my councillor…and after filling in a form (which was more suitable for a manager reporting on an industrial accident in their department) I have now been told the types of asbestos to which I may have been exposed. Talk about jumping through hoops ! I have written to my doctor to have this entered on my medical records. Of course, none of this answers the general point of how people who have been exposed but who didn’t see about it in the press and who are not particularly tenacious get to find out this info’. Another absolute disgrace. »

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