This Is Local London

Alan Schneiderman is a Woodhouse Ward Councillor and a member of the Labour group Opposition on Barnet Council.

Rebus and the car park

Car Parks are not the most glamorous subject to write about and can also unfortunately sometimes be a focus for crime and anti-social behaviour. I was reminded of this while reading Ian Rankin’s latest Detective Inspector Rebus crime novel, Exit Music, in which the story features an Edinburgh car park - as well as an assortment of local villains and a dissident Russian poet! But this is of course fiction; the problems faced by residents around Stanhope Road have been all too real with late night noise nuisance, drunkenness and fly-tipping.

Rebus and the car park

Car Parks are not the most glamorous subject to write about and can also unfortunately sometimes be a focus for crime and anti-social behaviour. I was reminded of this while reading Ian Rankin’s latest Detective Inspector Rebus crime novel, Exit Music, in which the story features an Edinburgh car park - as well as an assortment of local villains and a dissident Russian poet! But this is of course fiction; the problems faced by residents around Stanhope Road have been all too real with late night noise nuisance, drunkenness and fly-tipping.

Save the world - shower with a polar bear

Since I attended last week’s Live Earth concert at Wembley Stadium, the debate is still going on about whether it helped to raise awareness of climate change or just led to some millionaire rock stars travelling around the world in their private jets emitting more CO2 in a day than an average person would in a year.