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The Latest Breaking News from Brent Council

Children and babies’ graves among up to 85 damaged in ‘Islamophobic hate crime’ at Watford cemetery

Some graves were subjected to ‘unspeakable acts of disrespect’

The Independent UK

Furious parents demand action as knife thugs ‘overrun’ enclave near Willesden Green Tube station

Father-of-two Recorda Davey-Ann Clarke murdered and number of stabbings increased by four per cent in Brent, according to Scotland Yard data

Evening Standard

London borough's war on gambling as addicts cost it over £14m a year

Brent Council has the second-highest concentration of gambling premises in London , with council leader writing to Government calling for tighter laws

Evening Standard

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Brent Council pays out nearly £600,000 in pothole and pavement injury claims

The highest annual pay out came between 2020 and 2021, when the council settled 16 claims totalling more than £200,000

Evening Standard

North London mum went five months without hot water in 'horrible' room provided by council

Candy Cole was moved into the single room in Queen’s Park due to the ‘appalling’ state of her housing association property

Evening Standard

London community where 36 people died from Covid-19 gets royal visit

Princess Royal visited the Church End Community Centre to learn how trust has been rebuilt since the pandemic

Evening Standard

Neighbours complain 15,000 capacity K-pop festival in Wembley 'will stop children studying'

Plans for a 15,000-capacity K-pop festival in Wembley have led to complaints from residents concerned about noise pollution and disruption during exams

Evening Standard

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Ateez, Stray Kids and Aespa: why 2025 will be another huge year for K-pop in London

BTS and Blackpink may be about to stage a comeback, while Ateez, Stray Kids and Aespa are all playing London this year

Evening Standard

Family's 'nightmare' as they are blocked from installing a lift for disabled daughter - in property they own

Despite agreement from Brent Council - the freeholder of building is blocking ‘life-changing’ help due to worries about property price

Evening Standard

£600m redevelopment plans for long-derelict swathe of north London to be unveiled

Alongside redevelopment of the leisure centre, the scheme is expected to deliver more than 1,000 new homes, as well as new parks and green spaces, a new 263-room hotel, and workspaces

Evening Standard

North London borough warns finances 'at breaking point' as council tax and waste service charge hikes loom

Waste collection costs set to rise in local authority’s drive to find further £16million of cuts

Evening Standard

London council launches door-to-door patrols targeting dodgy landlords

Council officers have begun going door-to-door to catch out landlords who have broken rules

Evening Standard

Wembley landlord fined nearly £50,000 for housing eight people in five-person ‘house of horrors’

Council officers found eight people crammed into a home which was supposed to house up to five people

Evening Standard

I can’t imagine anything worse than cycling on a Lime bike – here’s why

With Brent Council looking to ban the toxic-coloured green bikes that have become a blight on our streets – and a massive inconvenience for the elderly and disabled – Olivia Petter argues that their demise is long overdue

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London borough on brink of banning Lime bikes for causing ‘havoc’ on roads

‘We are out of road for its activities in Brent’, council says

Evening Standard

Staff at 'inadequate' London school to strike over plans to turn it into academy

A North London primary school is set to close for a further five days over the next two weeks after staff agreed to take strike action against government plans to turn it into an academy.

Evening Standard

Wembley locals call for tiled murals celebrating major sporting events to go back on display

The murals were created ahead of the 1996 Euros but have since been covered up by advertising

Evening Standard

Fed-up neighbour wants north London pub's licence severely restricted over noise levels

A pub is having its licence reviewed after a neighbour complained of being ‘trapped in their home’ by a ‘hostile crowd’ on live music nights.

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Harlesden: Rogue landlord fined £9k after ignoring pleas to fix north London flat

Brent Council take Kevin McLoughlin to court over flat issues

The Guardian - UK

Leonard Johnson obituary

Other lives: Brent youth leader and driving force behind Bridge Park, one of the largest black community projects in Europe

Evening Standard

Kilburn sinkhole: More than 100 people evacuated over gas leak and burst water main

Residents were given shelter in a nearby church after a 24-inch gas main ruptured and a sinkhole opened up

Evening Standard

Landlord who packed 40 tenants in four-bed Wembley home given first ever Brent Council banning order

He was fined five years ago after council officers found dozens of people crammed into an unsafe four-bedroom home

Daily Mirror

Disabled woman left trapped in upstairs council flat with no lift for four years

Brent Council was forced to pay the woman, referred to as ‘Miss X’, £9,200 after the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) investigated her complaint

The Guardian - UK

Fury as council clerical error sends residents’ cleaning bills soaring

People living on Brent council’s housing estates were landed with what they felt was an unaffordable increase in charges

Daily Mirror

Thousands of households can apply for FREE help worth up to £1,000 to pay bills

The money can be used to cover things like rent and council tax arrears, white goods, counselling and mental health services, internet access and laptops, energy and water essentials and debts

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