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Rupa Huq MP seeks clarity on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods from Ealing Council

After receiving correspondence running into a figure sum on the low traffic neighbourhood experiment in Ealing, I have written to the council asking them to clarify the rationale and mechanics of the 6 month consultation while the trial is underway,

Rupa Huq MP’s Ealing Gazette column: ‘Dreams shattered by algorithm’

After abruptly ending for most kids in March, schools return in full next week. Of course they never really went away. Our valiant teachers literally went above and beyond – including covering Easter and half terms tor keyworker and vulnerable students at the height of coronavirus. To call this past…

Rupa Huq MP intervenes to help 18-year-old get Cambridge place following A-Levels results fiasco

This news featured in The Chiswick Herald and Acton W3. The 18-year-old student whose letter to Boris Johnson went viral amid the A-level results fiasco has today received confirmation from Cambridge that she will be able to study there. Acton-based Maimuna Hassan, 18, of Chiswick School, hoped to study Engineering…

Rupa Huq MP and Ruth Cadbury MP welcome Government U-turn on student grades

This news featured in Ealing Today and Acton W3. Local MPs have welcomed the Government’s U-turn on A-level and GCSE grades, with Rupa Huq describing it as “a victory for the thousands of students who spoke out against this historic injustice.” Both the MP for Ealing Central and Acton and…

Rupa Huq MP and Acton firefighters take part in minute’s silence for Beirut explosion victims

This news featured in The Ealing Times and ActonW3. The two places may be quite literally a million miles away, with one prone to civil war and the other the swathe of west London linking Ealing with Shepherds Bush, but Beirut was at one with Acton on Friday lunchtime with…

Rupa Huq MP praises Acton-based uniform designers for pioneering virus-killing apron

This news featured in ActonW3. An Acton-based luxury uniform designer that turned its hand to producing face coverings and virus-killing aprons has been hailed by Rupa Huq MP for their “inventiveness and public spirit.” Fashionizer, which is based on Roslin Square, Acton, saw its takings fall dramatically when lockdown was…

Rupa Huq MP condemns closure of last bank in West Ealing

This news featured in The Ealing Times and Ealing Today. The planned closure of the West Ealing branch of Barclays bank in October will be “a great loss to the community”, Rupa Huq MP has today said. The London-headquartered bank made the decision to close the branch public on July…

Rupa Huq MP presses management for return of Acton Post Office during visit to old workplace

This news featured in ActonW3. Rupa Huq MP challenged Post Office management to re-establish a post office in Acton during a tour of her old place of work — the Ealing Broadway branch of WHSmith. The Ealing Central and Acton MP, who started her career with a Saturday job at…

Chiswick Herald 11th October 2019

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