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Constituent Boundary Changes

Monday, 05 December 2011 Mark Gazaleh

In order to protect our historical and political sense of place, we should reflect for a moment on what is being proposed for Marylebone by the Boundary Commission for England's review of our constituency boundaries. The Commission's plan is that Marylebone should be cut away for our current constituency of Cities of London and Westminster (Mark Field MP) in order to join wards to our North and East. Marylebone will be located on the edge of a new area, named Camden & Regent's Park, whose geographic center will be in Regent's Park. (See our website for a map). Many locals have told me that this would be most unfortunate and have expressed a number of concerns to me. These include:

Marylebone will be a marginalized area within a new constituency made up of several wards with very different histories, interests and needs.
The strong links between the constituency area and the City of Westminster will be lost and thus Marylebone will suffer from a commensurate loss of influence in our area's local government.
The choice of name for the ward appears to lacks objectivity: undue prominence is given to the Camden name (which is also a borough) at the expense of the other localities.
Part of Marylebone will be lost to a separate constituency - the West End Ward section of Marylebone is carved out of the area.
Amenity societies will be split between constituencies. Currently West End Ward includes areas covered by various amenity societies, including the Marylebone Association for the part of the ward which is north of Oxford Street including Cavendish Square parts of Harley Street, and Portland Place etc.

The Boundary Commission for England's consultation process for the current proposals runs until 5 December 2011.

For more information please see http://consultation. boundarycommissionforengland.independent.gov.uk/whats-proposed/london/.

Representations can be made by email to reviews@bcommengland.x.gsi.gov.uk

or sent by mail to
Boundary Commission for England,
35 Great Smith Street,
London, SW1P 3BQ.

Mark Gazaleh

Find a Local GP Practice

Friday, 02 September 2011

Central London Healthcare is a group of 24 local GP practices in the borough of Westminster. The practices are located in an area that stretches between St John's Wood (north), Westbourne Green (west), Soho (east), and South Kensington and the Strand (south). The practices are individually run but have all agreed to work together to share knowledge, experience and economies of scale. The aim of each practice is to provide patients with high quality, cost effective primary health care.

All practices undertake to ensure that patients can see a GP by appointment within 48 hours, a practice nurse within 24 hours, and be seen the same day as an emergency. Other quality standards cover issues such as child immunisations, influenza vaccines, and cervical smears.

To find a Central London Healthcare GP Practice in your area, go to: www.centrallondonhealthcare.co.uk/our-gp-practices/

Local photographer wins national ‘Photographer of the Year Portrait’ competition

Wednesday, 03 August 2011 Marylebone Reporter

Rosalind Hobley, Marylebone based children's photographer has scooped the top prize in Practical Photography and Digital Photo magazines' Photographer of the Year competition in the Portrait category.

Rosalind's entry beat ten other shortlisted portrait photos to win the top prize. In addition to the accolade of winning, Rosalind also receives photography related prizes worth £2,500. Rosalind's winning portrait, a black and white photo of her daughter wearing some comedy glasses, is featured as a full page image in the August edition of Practical Photography.

On talking about her inspiration behind the winning entry Rosalind said: "I took the photograph of my daughter on our balcony in the late afternoon as the sun was dropping. I was inspired by the quality of the light and also by the contrast between her intense stare and the comic effect of the glasses. It seemed like a great choice for the portrait competition".

On describing what winning meant to her, Rosalind said: "I was so delighted to win the competition. As a children's photographer, I receive compliments from parents on my pictures, but to win a top prize like this provides a different kind of endorsement of my work."

As a category winner in the competition, Rosalind will join other category winners to be voted upon by readers of Practical Photography, to find the overall 'Photographer of the Year 2011' later in the year.

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