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County Council to provide free school meals vouchers

The Conservative Cabinet at County Hall has agreed to provide children eligible for free school meals, vouchers to the value of £30 for the Christmas holidays and £15 for February half term. They have also agreed set aside £1m for a further programme of support which will be developed as…

Councillor accused of alleged homophobia elected as mayor

The Conservative councillor at the centre of the Hertsmere homophobic row was installed as Mayor for the Borough last night at an ugly meeting where Labour councillors were silenced by the adjournment of the meeting. Cllr Alan Plancey had given an interview to Jewish News in 2014 which appeared in…

Open letter to proposed new Mayor Cllr Alan Plancey

Labour forces Christmas free school meals

Labour’s demands for a debate on free school meals for Hertsmere’s needy children has prompted the Council to announce a plan for Christmas. Food for meals will be cooked daily by a charity, but it will require funds from the council for their transportation. The financial support will be considered…

Labour councillors demand emergency debate on free school meals

Labour councillors furious with the Government’s refusal to support vulnerable children by providing free school meals over half term and Christmas are demanding an emergency debate in Hertsmere. They are requisitioning an extra-ordinary Council meeting where they will ask the Council to provide funding for the approximately 1800 children within…

Dowden votes against extending free school meals.

Despite Labour Councillors in Hertsmere calling on the Government to fund free school meals throughout the school holidays, Conservative MP, Oliver Dowden, voted against the motion meaning over 1800 Hertsmere children are at risk of going hungry. The call was to extend free school meals for the forthcoming October half…

Council supports delivery of film & TV heritage centre

Unanimous backing has been received for a Labour initiative for a film and television heritage centre that will celebrate Hertsmere’s long-standing association with the industry. The call for the creation of a local group to generate plans and ‘ultimately the delivery of a film and television centre in Borehamwood’ was…

Labour councillor appointed to oversee parish business

Potters Bar Labour councillor, Chris Myers, is one of four temporary councillors who will be stepping in to help keep South Mimms Parish Council running after the majority of its members resigned earlier this year. As four of the parish council’s five seats were vacant following a mass walk out,…

Dowden votes for ‘developers’ charter’ that gags local residents

Local residents will be blocked from objecting to many new developments across Hertsmere after Conservative MP, Oliver Dowden, voted to pass controversial new laws in the House of Commons despite a motion on Wednesday from Shadow Communities Secretary, Mike Amesbury, to set them aside. Under the new measures developers will…

Attempts to demolish district councils ‘gerrymandering’

A plan by Conservative-controlled Hertfordshire County Council to abolish the county’s 10 district councils will demolish local democracy and create a super authority where other parties are wiped out, has been described as ‘gerrymandering’ by Labour in Hertfordshire. In a letter written by David Williams, Conservative leader of Hertfordshire County…

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