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Parking ‘Back Track’

Havering’s Conservative Administration have performed a spectacular ‘back track’ on parking charges! A recent Executive Decision, dealt with under ‘Special Urgency’ powers (thus allowing no opportunity for call-in or scrutiny), proposes a range of parking changes. You can read the full Executive Decision via the Exit strategy

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Stop Hate Crime confidential hotline

Stop Hate UK is an independent organisation that supports people affected by all forms of Hate Crime and discrimination across the UK. One of the ways they do this is by providing a confidential hotline, to enable people to report Hate Crime without having to contact the

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Managing loneliness

Local counselling experts Theresa Hughes and Julie York have provided a number of interesting and informative articles for us over the last couple of months. We are grateful to them for giving us their thoughts once again, this time on managing loneliness.  At the time of writing,

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Reporting companies who ignore consumer rights

The Competitions and Mergers Authority (CMA) have recently received a large number of complaints, as some companies sought to use lockdown as an excuse to ignore consumer rights and/or charge rip-off prices for goods and services. Whilst most people understand the difficult time that businesses have experienced

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