Ealing Southall MP Virendra Sharma reflects on unanswered questions surrounding the UK government's role in the 1984 Golden Temple massacre of Sikhs in India, in his latest Gazette column.

On Friday 28 March, Dame Tessa Jowell MP joined Dr Rupa Huq on a visit to Ealing Central & Acton, stopping first to talk to staff and parents at the award-winning South Acton Children’s Centre.

Ealing Labour’s council tax freeze has saved the average Ealing family over £372 since 2010. Labour has kept council tax frozen for four years. Bills were frozen again at the budget council meeting on Feb 17th and Labour will freeze them again in 2015 if re-elected.

Ealing was named as one of eight boroughs to receive funding from TfL as part of the Mayor of London’s Mini-Holland initiative, it was announced yesterday.

Figures revealed at Budget Council on February 25^th show that Labour has invested £169.6m in local schools over the course of the last four years.

Ealing’s Labour leader congratulated Ealing educated Oscar winner Steve McQueen after he won an Oscar on Sunday evening for his film 12 years a slave.

Last Thursday, Feb 27, shadow Secretary of State for Education and TV personality Dr Tristram Hunt travelled to Ealing to support Dr Rupa Huq in her bid to become the next MP for Ealing Central & Acton.

It’s been a whirlwind month since my last update with two full council meetings, scrutiny aplenty and lots of walking around the ward and talking to residents and local firms. All three of your local Labour councillors have had a busy time dealing with council and community business.

Figures revealed by the London assembly reveal that Northwick Park hospital is struggling to cope with its current patient caseload. This is before the massive Tory government NHS hospital closure plan will massively increase the number of people using the hospital.

New figures have revealed that burglary has fallen across the borough as a result of action by Ealing’s Labour council. After questions to this month’s council meeting it was revealed that burglary in the borough has decreased by 15% in the last twelve months.