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Live In Carer Required ASAP Please

LIVE-IN CARER WITH CAR for charming, educated, elderly couple (one with slow onset Alzheimer’s) in Isleworth. ASAP start, either 5 days/week or 2 weeks rotation. Experience essential. Please email for further details on the background and the job description - jackiesmith111@talktalk.netThank youSharon

Sharon Compass ● 4667d0 Comments ● 4667d

Equal pay whatever one's gender

Can someone tell me what is L.B.Hounslow's track record re equal pay? Radio 4's 'Today' program tells that Birmingham City have just lost a marathon court dispute, and have to re-imburse past and present female employees; and that with costs it will eventually have set them back £1.1billion. That 10 years back, about half of the nation's L.A.'s had an unequal pay policy; and there are some still holding out on the dispute. Google reveals nothing of Hounslow's history and I wondered if someone could enlighten me.

Glyn Gordon Collins ● 4670d1 Comments ● 4668d

nuisance builders

This evening I saw two examples of nuisance behaviour by builders in Clifden Road.  At number 23 the builders developing the site have blocked off the road with a chair and planks - to reserve parking for themselves tomorrow morning.  They do this every night.  And outside the Old Swimming Baths another set of developers have erected a huge scaffolding in the road to reserve parking for themselves.In the face of this illegal blocking of the highway, law abiding local residents struggle to find a parking space. No sign of any parking enforcement by traffic wardens....

Adam Jackson ● 4679d15 Comments ● 4669d

Builder for small job

I'm looking for a builder for a small, maintenance job. Does anyone have anyone they could recommend? Thanks

Karen Brown ● 4669d2 Comments ● 4669d

A Level Maths Tutor Required

I am looking for a tutor for extra support for my son who is doing AS,   A Level Maths - Any recommendations ?  Willing to pay and to travel

Marta Nunes ● 4673d2 Comments ● 4670d

The proposed closure of Charing Cross Hospital is a disgrace!!

With Charing Cross Hospital we have 500 Beds that are book marked to be reduced to just 60 Beds WHY? we may ask for Development the reply!! it would seem that yet again Money is the root of this evil.Charing Cross treat all kinds of Cancer Patients,their Outpatients Clinics are overflowing I personally have been a patient on a yearly basis since 2002 and without the Consultants & Staff well!! "I" thank God am one of the lucky ones. However without Charing Cross it could so easily have been another story.We need more Hospitals not closure of existing ones!!This Coalition promised so much,yes I do appreciate that Austerity Measures are necessary,however when we continue to give monies to India who have a Space programme & Bangladesh who have a Nuclear programme etc and that this "AID" accumulates to approx 12 BILLION POUNDS per year whilst within London we have just last week had 10 Fire Stations closed with nearly 560 people made redundant just because it would cost £28 million a year to keep them open.What is £28 Million to keep us safe & alive opposed to £12 Billion Aid giving yearly to assist outside governments to go into Space & perhaps use their Nuclear Power against the UK in the future.Our Coalition Government need to prioritize our needs because all these funds that they give to other countries do not go to the actual ppl of said countries they are spent how each individual government wish and our government have no say!! Each day we see Our NHS,Fire Service & Police diminish greatly our Schools are in Turmoil because each year they have a different curriculum to teach it confuses both Teachers & Pupils. I say wholeheartedly to our government don't destroy us!!

Dawn Hardy ● 4674d10 Comments ● 4672d

Brompton Bicycles

I see from the home page that this marvellous local company are in the final of the European Business Awards. What a wonderful success story and also putting Brentford on the map. Well done to all who work there.

Keith Iddon ● 4672d0 Comments ● 4672d

Why do they bother?

Has anyone else noticed the amount of people who've already put out their rubbish for collection and which is just standing there? Surely by now people know that collection days change over Bank Holidays don't they?  As we all get the cards that tell us collection dates and recycling weeks you do wonder why the Refuse Service bothers.

Vanessa Smith ● 4687d36 Comments ● 4673d

Campaigners demand police action after run of break-ins

Article in the Hounslow Chronicle 'Act now on burglaries'Things have got so bad in Cranford that residents have got together to deal with the rising crime and anti social behaviour. It is good to see that community spirit still exists and are being led by good people. Maybe this should happen throughout the borough?

Karan Kad ● 4673d0 Comments ● 4673d

Builder / Garden Paving Contractor wanted

I am looking to rebuild my front garden wall and also have a small amount of paving at the back looked at.Has anybody used a reliable builder or garden maintenance contractor who is reliable that they can recommend.  Even builders that get good marks on checkatrade.com don’t seem to be reliable at keeping apointments.Many thanks.

Gareth Mitchell ● 4673d0 Comments ● 4673d

Are you and your family competitive and fancy being on a game show?

Hat Trick Productions, are looking for competitive, lively families, (husbands & wives, parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, children - over 16, cousins, in-laws etc) to play our new quiz. No prior experience needed, just a good sense of humour and general knowledge. Please contact Kim Read by Friday the 17th January on contestants@hattrick.com

Saima Ferdows ● 4674d0 Comments ● 4674d

Bad show West Middlesex!  A midnight discharge of an 80 year old.

At around midnight West Middlesex deposited an 80 year old man with severe mobility difficulties (parkinsons) back at home, leaving him fully clothed on the bed.They insisted he come home without any prior arrangements and knowing that his first carer of the day had been cancelled because he was in the care of the West Midd for 'over night observation'.Yes, of course he was found on the floor when the next carer came in.  Lucky he wasn't readmitted this morning with a broken hip.Wonder how often overnight discharges of vulnerable people happen?

Sarah Felstead ● 4690d17 Comments ● 4674d

LADIES FOLD UP BIKE

Does anyone have a ladies fold up bike for sale or know of one reasonbly priced please.email me at sherron.compass@yahoo.co.ukthank yousharon

Sharon Compass ● 4677d2 Comments ● 4674d

Do any of our MPs actaully know anything?

Listened to the latest pronouncement from Tristram Hunt MP Shadow Education Secretary re all teachers in state schools having to be 'registered', and all the other drivel he was spouting. No-one asked why this should apply only to those teachers in state schools - when free schools are allowed to have unqualified teaching staff. Why does this assume that all teachers in the independent and public school sector are somehow superior? I thought it was pretty disgraceful of a Labour party politician to be taking this attitude, he obviously isn't aware that all teachers are subject to regular appraisals and classroom observations already. Continuing professional development is widely available in schools. As for this nonsense about a 'register', teachers come under the authority of the Teaching Agency now and there is already provision to deal with unsatisfactory teachers. Teachers, like our medical professionals deserve our support and respect and just for once I wish some of these smarmy, clever dick politicians would apply some of these requirements to themselves. I wonder how many of them would make the cut if they were subject to rigorous behavioural and professional standards. My guess? Certainly not a majority.

Vanessa Smith ● 4676d0 Comments ● 4676d

KNTTING MACHINE FOR SALE

I have a knitting machine for sale which is for sale it is 80.00 and very good condition.please email mesherron.compass@yahoo.co.uk or call07534511966.thank yousharon

Sharon Compass ● 4677d0 Comments ● 4677d

Enabling Brentford FC new stadium - how about this

The following development proposal will enable Brentford FC to survive and prosper with a brand new stadium, secured funding and no p**sed off neighbours:1) Redevelop the existing stadium into 100 town houses which would sell quite happily at £500k each.  It's a perfect land size for this and would fit in equally perfectly with the surrounding houses. 2) Build half a dozen 5 story blocks of flats on the Dead Mans Graves site.  Total number of flats would be 200 - ie bang on the maximum recommended density for this area, and they'd sell for say £400k each.  Income from 1 & 2 is £130m.  Allowing a £30m financing and build cost for the houses and flats this leaves £100 million surplus.3) Use £70m of the surplus to build a nice new stadium at the existing Brentford FC training ground.  It's in Osterly, which is as close to Brentford as makes no odds so no worries about Brentford FC having to move to Surrey.4) The remaining £30m will keep Brentford FC running for the next 6 years, by which time it should be into a nice profit.Any objections anyone??

Lorne Gifford ● 4684d51 Comments ● 4677d

Private Eye Rotten Boroughs Awards 2013

If you get the chance can I suggest you have a look at this? Parts of it are hilarious - and you really couldn't make some of it up, other bits make you want to smack someone right in their smug faces. My favourite for a real belter - "Two Fingers to the Poor Award""Joint Winners - Millionaire Westminster Tory councillor Jonathan Glanz, who compared social housing tenants' lifestyles to those of  "trustafarian" characters in Made in Chelsea, and his millionaire colleague Robert Davis, who said more affordable housing was essential for people with 'a basic simple job' on '£50,000 to £80,000 a year'".Hounslow also gets a mention in Quotes of the year; "No more appearances in Private Eye's Rotten Boroughs column" - Peter Thompson, Hounslow council's Tory group leader, offers advice to his Labour opponents on how to improve the council's image." Also read the appalling tale of people in the carer sector "In the Back" page 29, I can only hope that stupid, vacuous idiot Nadine Dorries  reads it - in fact I'd like to stuff it up her nose after her comments on last night's Question Time - "Any job will do" - the woman is an complete nitwit, and that's being very polite!

Vanessa Smith ● 4677d0 Comments ● 4677d

LBH drops plans to hive off Public Hall land - for now - but doesn't bother to inform the community

The proposal to grant a 125-year lease of land belonging to Isleworth Public Hall to a local school, due to be enacted by Councillor Steve Curran as a Single Member Decision according to the LBH Forward Plan, has been mysteriously dropped from the Cabinet agenda, but no explanation has been given to the Friends of Isleworth Public Hall nor indeed to any other members of the community.Even when one of the Friends wrote to Councillor Curran in December asking for an update no suggestion of this rather significant development was forthcoming.  Sources at the Civic Centre inform me that the whole business is being conducted behind the scenes, as is local Labour's wont, in a rather guilty and furtive manner.What is going on?  I wonder whether the Isleworth councillors would be prepared to enlighten us?  It would be most inspiring to know they were with the local community on this (sarcasm alert).

Phil Andrews ● 4680d10 Comments ● 4677d

Private landlord with 1000 properties.....

I am appalled that the heartless Mr & Mrs Wilson the property tycoons are about to evict their tenants in receipt of housing benefit to let to eastern European workers. First of all I would think some sort of regulation if someone owns that many buy to let properties should have to be a registered social landlord/housing association is in order, secondly some understanding that people in receipt of housing ben. have no control over the system that pays them. Why did the government also stop the option to have rent paid directly to the landlord? News that dear Georgie Osborn heir to a baronetcy and a humungous trust fund says that benefits will be cut even further just makes me want to smack him in his smug, sneering face. Wake up and do something about the tax this country loses you d*ckhead, oops! Sorry forgot that's what all your mates are fiddling isn't it? The 21st century and this country has food banks and a T.B. epidemic looming exacerbated by poor housing and health care.

Vanessa Smith ● 4681d30 Comments ● 4678d

Good ole Hounslow Homes

Why do Hounslow Homes think this time of year is a prime time to redecorate external areas in their properties?Today I found the communal entrance door stuck because it had been painted.  Now I know I'm not the strongest of persons but I couldn't shift it.  I was locked inside.  I did wonder if there was a medical emergency would I be able to get out?  If a fire had broken out would I have managed to escape?  Even the fire escape from the top of the flats leads down to the communal entrance.  I did report it to the council.  Pleasant chap on the phone making placating noises but what type of numpty employs numskulls to decorate in the midst of winter?       Now picture this: me and another person did actually manage to shove the door open - two old wombles together - and we could see where the paint ripped.  It was stuck.  Hard.  By paint.  Now, what qualified painter & decorator just allows painted surfaces to stick together in this weather?  And what type of painters & decorators are Hounslow Homes squandering money on?Last year, at around this time last year, in all the snow, Hounslow Homes got a painter & decorator in to do up the communal areas.  This so-called painter & decorator - from Hertfordshire according to his van - just painted as directed and missed out filling in a huge crack - caused by subsidence.  Crack filled in six months later.  But not painted over.I thought Hounslow Homes would have learned from their previous mistakes but it seems not.            

Xanthe West ● 4683d5 Comments ● 4679d