Romford exists today because of its street market. The welcome signs all read “Romford: Historic Market Town”. I was raised on the...

As someone raising a family, I know that childcare costs are crippling ordinary people across Britain and in places like Romford, which...

Knife crime and antisocial behaviour is becoming an all too familiar headline in places like Romford, and it is time for change. The...

A concerning precedent has been set in recent months by Havering Council’s Planning Department, which arguably counteracts attempts to tackle the housing crisis for local people. In October the CPA studios development in Romford came to my attention, where IPE North Street Ltd proposed to pay £693,936 in lieu of delivering five social rent homes on the 66-unit site. On the face of it this money can be used to deliver those properties as part of another project, but the real i

Teachers are fast becoming the forgotten frontline in the covid recovery. There appears to be ample support within the labour movement...

‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’ seems to have become the 1997-esq Labour Party mantra of the Covid-era. The economic impact of Covid-19 has left over 500,000 young people out of work and nearly 2 million working age people unemployed nationally, so the sentiment behind our message is on point. That being said, ‘Jobs, jobs, jobs’ can’t mean a new supermarket for every town, or an entirely digital future which I fear would produce an economy built on sand. Our new mantra must create good me