Steve Pound , Labour MP for Ealing North, discusses the borough's housing shortage in his latest getwestlondon column:

Welcome to the January update, my first of 2014. This month’s report is longer as it looks at what’s being going on at council (including before the December Christmas break) and what’s happening/coming up in the ward.

Ealing Council's Labour Leader, Cllr Julian Bell, has written to UKIP Leader Nigel Farage to act against Cllr Dennehy for his offensive remarks regarding the Indian community in Southall.

Ealing Labour has today announced their top 5 priorities if we are elected to run the council on May 22^nd. The pledges are the top five things a Labour council would do after the upcoming local election.

Rupa Huq - Labour’s choice to be next MP for Ealing Central and Acton - has issued a stinging condemnation to current MP, Angie Bray, for her failure support urgent moves to rein in bank bonuses.

The future of Ealing Hospital and Heathrow Airport will be two key issues this year, writes Labour MP for Ealing Southall Virendra Sharma in his latest column:

Hospital campaigners today accused Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for health, of running scared from scrutiny after he has refused to meet with local politicians over the controversial plans to close 4 A&Es in north west London.

There were fresh demands for the resignation of former Conservative councillor Benjamin Dennehy for offensive comments he made about the Indian community Southall in a blog post in 2012.

In his latest political column Ealing Labour group leader, Councillor Julian Bell, argues that the Health Secretary's claim to have saved Ealing A&E was no more than spin:

At Tuesday evening’s Ealing council meeting Ealing Conservatives refused to condemn the closure of local hospitals.