This morning I took part in Leyton’s very moving remembrance Sunday ceremony and church service. Leyton’s war veterans, councillors and local residents gathered together in Coronation Gardens to pay our respects to those who lost their lives in the first and second world wars, fighting to secure the freedoms we enjoy today. Continue reading “Leyton Remembers”
Thanks so much to the African and Caribbean Elders group for inviting me to join their 2006 Black History Month celebrations. I spent a wonderful night listening to poetry, singing old time Caribbean songs (songs I’ve known since childhood, thanks to my Caribbean mum) and I also learnt more about Black History and the positive contributions Black people have made to Britain. Did you know, for example, that it was Garret Morgan, a Black man, who invented the traffic light? No? Me neither! Continue reading “Celebrating Black History Month with Leyton’s Elders”
A massive, massive thank you to Team Leyton, the organisation charged with administrating Leyton’s ‘neighbourhood renewal’ funding, for organising the best ball I’ve ever been to.
On Friday night, Leyton ward’s residents got glammed up for a night on the tiles at the Score Building in Oliver Rd Continue reading “Leyton’s Cinderellas Shall Go to the Ball!”
A few days before rushing up to Manchester, for this year’s Labour Party Conference, I celebrated the opening of the first of North Leyton’s two new children’s centres, based at Sybourn School. I will be representing Waltham Forest Council on the Sybourn children centre’s new board. Continue reading “Welcoming Sybourn’s New Children’s Centre”
Just a little update to inform you that Ebony Vincent, (pictured next to me on the left) who was nominated for an award at the National Street Wardens awards back in August, beat hundreds of street wardens from all over the country to become the 2006 “Street Warden of the Year!”
Harry Cohen MP and I are absolutely delighted Continue reading “It’s Official: They really are the best in the world!”