Sacked postal workers win battle to clear names
CWU union representative Steven Gill and sacked colleague John Doran have won their appeals against dismissal and the two workers, employed at the main sorting centre in Cowley, have
got their jobs back ... On the Oxford IWCA website.
Tight budget for the city
Labour shows true colours by pushing through 4% council tax rise, agreeing to privatise leisure services and rejecting IWCA proposal to redistribute money to working class
areas ... On the Oxford IWCA website.
Press silence over gun incident
Suppressing the facts won’t work. Violent crime will only be stopped if the police are made accountable ...
Right: Councillor Stuart Craft outside the Spar shop where, in January, a gun was pulled on two men who intervened to help a lad being brutally attacked by a teenage gang.
Council rents to rise by over 6% as Oxford tenants overpay by £16 million
Along with a council tax increase of over 4%, council tenants in Oxford will have to contend with an inflation busting average rent increase of 6.25%. Meanwhile Andrew Smith MP and his wife, Labour councillor
Val, are sitting pretty with two houses, one in London bought with the help of the taxpayer ...
Local right of way survives two world wars but is closed to the public with New Labour councillors’ help
The German car giant has got its way. Winey Magistrate’s Court granted BMW’s application to close Bridleway 75 ...
Cuckoo in the nest
Highlighting the dangers of outdated boilers in council properties ...
Taking the PCSO?
Community support officers: tackling crime or wasting time? By IWCA councillor Stuart Craft ...
Antisocial motorcycle riders confronted
Swift action by IWCA activist Dave Troth ensured two nuisance riders were stopped in their tracks in August ...
Peers Academy plans explained
Labour councillors reject call to put children’s interests first ...
Postal strike: the other side of the story
Striking postal workers have repeatedly appeared on the front page of the local papers in recent months. Hundreds of column inches have been given over to the industrial action and its effect
on the service, yet when it comes to investigating the root cause of the problems there has been a deafening silence. We look at the other side of the story ...
Bridleway 75 revisited
IWCA councillor Stuart Craft joined Green councillors Sid Phelps and Nula Young to appear at Witney Magistrate’s Court for the second time on 9 October to give evidence against BMW in its
attempt to close Bridleway 75, which runs through the car plant, between Garsington Road and Horspath Road ...
Swings and roundabouts
Playing politics with our play areas ...
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