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	<title>Nigel Bakhai</title>
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	<description>Liberal Democrat Councillor for Elthorne ward</description>
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		<title>Pupil Premium benefits schools in Elthorne</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ealing Lib Dem councillors moved a motion at the December council meeting welcoming the £5 million extra investment in schools across Ealing this year as a result of the Coalition Government delivering on the 2010 General election pledge by the Liberal Democrats to introduce a pupil premium to help the most disadvantaged pupils. Unfortunately, the education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2012/01/03/pupil-premium-benefits-schools-in-elthorne/</link>
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		<title>Ealing Hospital Merger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At the December meeting of Ealing Council. I called for a cross-party campaign to save Ealing Hospital and suggested a joint letter to the Chief Executive of Ealing Hospital on behalf of all three political parties represented on Ealing Council and all residents to express their concern at the proposed merger between Ealing Hospital Trust and North West [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/12/31/ealing-hospital-merger/</link>
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		<title>Elthorne ward forum budget 2011-2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Since 2008, Elthorne has been allocated a ward forum budget every year to spend on local environmental, transport, town centre regeneration or other projects in the area. In 2010-2011, Elthorne had a budget of £40,000 and some of the funds from the ward forum went towards an alleygating scheme in Deans Road, establishing a new centre for providing arts in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/10/03/elthorne-ward-forum-budget/</link>
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		<title>Hanwell Library Saved!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I welcomed the announcement at Tuesday’s Council meeting that Ealing Council is no longer planning to close four threatened libraries in the borough. Obviously, whilst it is disappointing that the mobile library will be phased out, I am pleased that the council no longer plans to close the libraries at Hanwell, Northfields, Perivale and Northolt Leisure [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/06/18/hanwell-library-saved/</link>
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		<title>Cllr Nigel Bakhai 2010-11 Annual Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A year has now passed since the local elections in May 2010 and I would like to report back to residents on my eventful first year as a councillor in Elthorne. First of all, I have had one of the best attendance records of all councillors over the past twelve months and have not missed a single meeting of full council [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/06/09/cllr-nigel-bakhai-2010-11-annual-report/</link>
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		<title>Council Tax frozen but services face budget cuts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Council Tax was set in Ealing for 2011/12 at this month&#8217;s full council meeting on 1st March. The good news for residents is that council tax is being frozen. For a resident in Band D, their council tax of £1369.75 is made up of £1059.93 going towards Ealing Council and £309.82 to the London Mayor’s precept.  There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/03/31/council-tax-frozen-but-services-face-budget-cuts/</link>
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		<title>Hanwell Library under threat</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month I raised an oral question at the full council meeting on 1st February to the Labour Portfolio holder for Customer and Community Services, Councillor Kamaljit Dhindsa, about the future of Hanwell Library. I was told that the council is planning to hold a public consultation over the future of the library service in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/02/07/hanwell-library-under-threat/</link>
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		<title>Envirocrime Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Labour-run Ealing Council has recently announced plans to reduce the number of Envirocrime Prevention officers who deal with issues like flytipping and illegal street trading in the borough. As a result of these changes, the number of ward based Envirocrime officers will be reduced from 20 down to 11 which will mean that going forward most will have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/01/29/envirocrime-report/</link>
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		<title>Church Road Consultation Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2,354 consultation documents were mailed out to residents regarding the proposal to introduce raised tables at the Church Road and St. George&#8217;s Road junctions with the Uxbridge Road. Church Road Consultation Drawing 56 were returned undeliverable and there were 267 completed responses.  There was also an identical online consultation, which received 17 responses.  The total [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://nigelbakhai.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/01/22/church-road-consultation-results/</link>
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