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Tessa officially opens the Elmgreen School
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 Tessa Jowell was delighted and honoured to perform the official opening ceremony at The Elmgreen School in West Norwood. An absolutely fantastic new state-of-the-art building secondary school building. Tessa Jowell is pictured (left) after the opening ceremony with parents, pupils and Lambeth Labour Councillors. Tessa had campaigned with local parents for a number of years to help create the first ever parent-promoted school in the country. Tessa commented:"It is time to celebrate this fantastic new school that is brilliant addition to the West Norwood community it will serve. "The Elmgreen School is a true and lasting testament...
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Tessa asks for commuters' verdict on First Capital Connect
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 25/01/2010 (updated 27/01/10) Tessa Jowell and her Streatham colleague Chuka Umunna are asking long suffering First Capital Connect passengers for their verdict on the company this week. They will be asking commuters at local stations to let them know whether the FCC service has returned to an acceptable level after weeks and months of delays, cancellations and overcrowding caused by running short trains. If you use the service but have not received a survey form please click on the image to the right, print off the survey and return it to Tessa and Chuka. Tessa said: "The Transport Secretary has...
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Tessa Jowell welcomes new Norwood primary school places
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 For immediate release - 25/10/01 LOCAL MP ‘DELIGHTED’ WITH PLANS FOR NEW RECEPTION PLACES FROM SEPTEMBER After many months of lobbying the government and following discussions with local schools and parents, real progress appears to have been made by Tessa Jowell MP and Labour Lambeth in expanding primary school places in the Norwood area. The full plans, subject to agreement by the school and governors, will involve expanding the successful and popular Julian's Primary School. This good news means that, as well as Kingswood School having two extra reception classes, Julian’s will have an extra reception class from September....
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RSPCA - new pet chipping date 7 February
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 Yet another highly successful pet chipping day in December helped take our local RSPCA well beyond the 2000 mark for pets chipped last year. A huge thank you is due to the RSPCA, those who volunteer to help it and for people who make donations to support their vital work There will be a further pet chipping session on 7 February from 12noon - 4pm at RSPCA shop in West Norwood (380 Norwood Road SE27 9AA – opposite junction with obson Road). Tesas Jowell commented: "I have nothing but admiration for the RSPCA and our local branch is leading...
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Tessa welcomes £2.45 million boost to push up standards in local schools
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 Local MP Tessa Jowell has revealed new figures published this week that show that children across Lambeth and Southwark will benefit from a total of £2,447,135 of funding for one-to-one tuition in state schools. Tessa Jowell has welcomed the announcement of this extra funding which will help to provide 10 hours of one-to-one tuition in English and maths for children at primary school and in the early years of secondary school who are falling behind in literacy and numeracy. Tessa Jowell said: "Thanks to the hard work of pupils, teachers and teaching assistants, together with record...
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Tessa Jowell objects to Crystal Palace planning application
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 Tessa Jowell has objected to an application for a change of use at the old bingo hall at 25 Church Road, London SE19 2TE. The application to Bromley Council is for a change of use from 'Assembly and Leisure' to 'Non residential institutions'. Tessa supports the views of many of her constituents who feel that the loss of the site would prevent it from being used for entertainment in the future when there is a lack of such facilities in the Crystal Palace Triangle area. Click on the image to the left to see a copy of Tessa's letter...
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Tessa Campaigns to Save the South London Line
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 Tessa Jowell was joined by Harriet Harman MP, GLA Member Val Shawcross and supporters from across the political spectrum at a rally to launch the campaign to Save the South London Line at Denmark Hill Station. Undertakings that the South London Line would be diverted after 2012 to preserve a regular service into Victoria have been reversed by TfL. The Department for Transport has provided the vast majority of funding to help bring the long-awaited East London Line Extension (ELLX) to Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye. But it appears that TfL's major contribution to the cost of the...
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Tessa delighted by major Ebony Horse Club award
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 Ebony Horse Club, based in Brixton has won a major award after topping an online poll. Ebony Horse Club is a community based sports club that helps young people in Lambeth. It is based in one of the most crime-ridden and deprived wards in Britain and is the leading project in Britain for giving ethnic minority and disadvantaged children the experience of horses and riding. It provides access to top quality horse riding instruction and mentoring for young people aged eight to seventeen years old whilst enabling them to learn important skills in working co-operatively together. The Duchess of Cornwall...
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Tessa Backs East Dulwich Parents
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 Since problems in relation to primary school places in the East Dulwich area first came to Tessa's attention in early May she has been in regular contact with parents who have been in touch with my office and met with a group of 16 parents in early June. Tessa has been working with parents this year in order to put pressure on Southwark Council to listen to parents' concerns about the offers they have been made and about the manner in which Southwark has handled their enquiries, and to ensure that these parents are given the opportunity to discuss their...
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Tessa Hails Kings Emergency Department Breakthrough
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 Tessa Jowell has welcomed a huge breakthrough in plans to redevelop King's Emergency Department. The multi-million pound plans, which were the subject of a consultation in the early part of 2009 will now be changed to provide a designated space for mental-health patients. This is exactly what Tessa called for in her submission to the consultation (click on the image below to see the full text of Tessa's letter). Tessa commented: 'I am absolutely delighted that the concerns of local users and local representatives now look set to be incorporated into the final plans for the Emergency Department. 'I pay...
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Listening to and Learning from Local People
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 Tessa Jowell has continued her series of coffee mornings in her constituency where she invites local people to return surveys to let her know what they are most concerned about and to come to an event where people can speak to Tessa and raise their concerns. At the most recent event at Christ Church on Gipsy Hill Tessa supported people who felt that more facilities for young people were needed. Others mentioned that they would like to see a more visible police presence. Others raised the issue of Mp's allowances and Tessa reassured them that her own detailed claims and...
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Tessa Supports Dulwich and Herne Hill Trade Justice Group
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 Tessa Jowell recently chaired a meeting organised by the Dulwich and Herne Hill Trade Justice Group - an organisation drawn from a large number of local churches - as part of the Dulwich Festival. Tessa was joined by representatives from the World Development Movement and Traidcraft as well as candidates for the European elections. She took the opportunity to review progress since she led a delegation of the group in a meeting with the Development Secretary Douglas Alexander in the summer of 2008. Tessa offered to organise a further meeting with the Development Secretary so that local activists could again...
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Tessa Jowell Asks for Dulwich Hospital Site Rethink
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 Tessa Jowell has asked that plans for intermediate beds are clarified in her contribution to a consultation on the Dulwich Hospital site. You can read the full text of Tessa's representations by clicking on the image of her letter to the right: --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Previously: Tessa Jowell has urged local people to get involved in the consultation that has been launched by Southwark Primary Care Trust and Southwark Council over plans for the Dulwich Hospital Site. She has circulated a letter to local residents (click to view a copy of the text). Full details of the proposals can be...
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Tessa Backs Bright Future for Herne Hill Velodrome
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 Tessa Jowell has been working with British Cycling to try to secure a long term future and sustained investment in the Herne Hill Velodrome. Tessa said: 'I am pleased that discussions involving Southwark Council, the Dulwich Estate and British Cycling appear to be making real progress. (Tessa is pictured at the velodrome with former World Champion cyclist, Tony Doyle) 'I am determined to help secure a bright future for this much-loved and historic stadium which was one of the official venues when the Olympics were last staged in London. 'Spending a Saturday morning at the velodrome is a truly uplifting...
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Rapid Progress on New Brixton School Site
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 Tessa Jowell has welcomed the progress that has been made on delivering brand new state-of-the-art school buildings to serve the local community in Brixton and Herne Hill. The Evelyn Grace Academy, which opened in September 2008 in purpose-built temporary accommodation, will move onto its permanent site on Shakespeare Road next year. Tessa checks out the site of the new Evelyn Grace Academy on Shakespeare Road. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Previously: Tessa Visits New Lambeth School with Education Secretary Ed Balls As the new school year started Tessa Jowell MP visited Evelyn Grace - a...
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Tessa Backs Traders at Gipsy Hill Station
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 At a further meeting (see below for earlier report) in April with representatives from Southern Railways and Network Rail, Tessa pressed the case, with GLA Member Val Shawcross, for space for the current traders at Gipsy Hill Station to be incorporated into plans for the newly refurbished station. Tessa said: 'I think we made excellent progress and both rail companies now know, if they did not before, just how strongly the local communnity feels about securing the future of the cafe and the dry cleaner's at the station. 'Val and I will do everything in our power to support these...
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Tessa Backs Brixton Markets
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 Tessa Jowell has backed market traders and local residents to try to get Brixton's famous covered markets listed to help prevent their demolition. Tessa commented: 'Brixton's markets are intrinsic to the historic and architectural bones of the town and they hold the key to its past and its future. 'That's why I support their listing and that is why we cannot afford to let them go.'...
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Tessa out and about in Dulwich & West Norwood
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 Check out the Local Action in Pictures section for news of Tessa's latest campaigning stories from around the constituency:...
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Tessa Jowell Hails East London Line Breakthrough
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 Tessa Jowell has welcomed news that the East London Line Phase 2b extension will now go ahead. This will allow passengers to travel more easily from local stations at Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye to Clapham Junction in the west and to east London when the extended and refurbished East London Line is back in operation. Tessa Jowell is pictured at a meeting late last year with the Secretary of State for Transport, Geoff Hoon, when she pushed the case for go-ahead of the East London Line extension along with fellow south London MPs, Harriet Harman, Joan Ruddock and Martin...
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Tessa Seeks Views on Local Rail Services
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 Tessa Jowell is concerned that a new rail timetable commencing on 14 December will remove two trains per hour from the off-peak timetable on the service running to London Bridge through Gipsy Hill, West Norwood, Tulse Hill, North Dulwich and East Dulwich. She opposed these changes with Southern Rail and the Department for Transport. Surprisingly, a passenger representative group supported the changes and they will now go ahead. The new timetable means that that there will be four off-peak trains to and from London Bridge every hour instead of the six at present. The trains that are being removed are...
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