Lynne Featherstone's Campaign for Fairer Health Funding
When you go to your GP, you expect to have equal access to treatment, regardless of where you live. We Haringey patients should have the same access to treatment and [...]
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Rubbish! by Lynne Featherstone
I came home the other day and my daughter said ‘a woman called to explain about the change in bins.’ (I live in Highgate). I asked my daughter what the woman had said. [...]
Domestic Violence – our shameful secret by Lynne Featherstone
A few years back I was walking down a local road (delivering leaflets of course) when I heard vicious shouting (male) coming from an open window above a shop. This wasn’t [...]
The Cost of Living
An £800 tax cut and Council Tax freeze for people in Haringey. When I talk to people on the doorsteps in Haringey, they often ask me what I’m doing to help in their daily [...]
Giving young people a fair start in life!
My early years were spent at Highgate Primary – one of the many great schools in Haringey borough. And the schools here are getting better and better, with particularly [...]
International Development
In September, I started my new ministerial job as Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for International Development. The days prior to reshuffles are always tense – so I [...]
Pinkham Way
I first got involved in politics as a student when Oxford Polytechnic decided to close the course down the course I was studying. I launched a campaign that brought together [...]
Battle for Pinkham Way continues
The battle to stop North London Waste Authority building a waste plant at Pinkham Way is continuing, with the news that Haringey Council has failed to properly consult local [...]
Pinkham Way development? No thanks!
Local people are horrified at what might happen to their local area if the looming planning application for one of Europe’s largest waste processing plants to be developed [...]
Pinkham Way – again!
I make no apology for writing for a second month in a row about North London Waste’s (NWLA) proposals for a huge waste processing plant at Pinkham Way. NWLA’s recent [...]