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The Conservative opposition leader of Ealing Council has said it is unfair for the council to blame a council tax rise on the Government. Councillor Greg Stafford said a decade of poor decisions from Ealing Council’s Labour administration was the real cause. The council has agreed to increase council tax by 1.99%, on top of a 3% social care precept, which is effectively the maximum possible increase. Stafford said: “The reality is that over the last close to ten years of this Labour administration they have run down the reserves and wasted money on pet projects that no one wants. The latest example of this is Low Traffic Neighbourhoods, which they re spending tens of thousands of pounds on and now they’ve just had to pay out court costs to the Low Traffic Neighbourhoods objectors yesterday, which although it hasn’t been revealed will be another tens of thousands of pounds. ....
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A London council has been hit by a backlash after renaming a road that honoured the hero of Lucknow Sir Major General Henry Havelock after the founder of Sikhism. A section of Havelock Road - named after the military leader who has a statue in Trafalgar Square - was officially renamed Guru Nanak Road in Southall, Ealing, on Monday. The change of the new road sign has sparked a furious row as critics called it airbrushing history and say it is the latest bid to try and erase Britain’s cultural heritage. General Havelock led the British army to recapture Cawnpore in India during the siege of Lucknow in 1857. ....