Letter From Southall

Before you ask, no we haven’t been paid off by the council (or councillors), nor have we thrown in the towel.

I suppose the foremost question in people’s minds is why SouthallPride has been inactive for quite some time. Many of you have emailed us with words of support and expressed your desire to see SouthallPride continue with it’s campaign to improve the quality of life for Southall residents.

The fact of the matter is that we have been rather more active at the grassroots level of late, and updating the website has played second fiddle. Coupled with that is the fact that we are a very small team and have to juggle campaign work with the day to day pressures that life throws at us – after all we are not paid council staff or politicians, although sometimes we wish we had their clout and access to resources to get things done! The good news is that we have started working with other individuals and groups in Southall to become more effective in promoting our campaign. It’s certainly feels good to be working with other residents and groups whose goals are similar, and means we are able to support each other and persevere until results are achieved.

As we said, there is much good work being done at the ground level, and we hope to report on some of this in the near future. We would like to say in passing that did you know that each ward has regular ‘Focus Group’ meetings where residents can make their voice heard? Also do not hesitate to let your Safer Neighbourhoods Police team know of any antisocial or illegal activity around your area.

Shake off the lethargy and take the bull by the horns! Would you be happy to live in an area that looked like this?

Shooting after nightclub brawl

A TEENAGER was shot in the leg during a massive brawl outside a nightclub on Saturday.

A crowd of around 40 men were seen fighting outside the nightclub in The Green, Southall, when a gunshot was heard at 3.15am.

Bricks and broken glass were found in the street after a member of public called police – but the fighters had left on foot.

 

A short while later a 19-year-old presented himself at hospital with a bullet wound in his leg. He is still in hospital in a stable condition.

Detective constable Nick Dunn, investigating, said: “There was a lot of people outside the club when the altercation started and we are keen to speak to anyone in the area who witnessed the fight, or who saw groups of men running away from the area in the early hours of Saturday morning.”

Black-on-black gun crime unit Operation Trident’s non-fatal shooting team are currently investigating.

Anyone with information is asked to call the Incident Room on 020 8733 4774

This report reproduced from Ealing Times, Wednesday 4th July 2007 , by David Doyle

http://www.ealingtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1517568.0.shooting_after_nightclub_brawl.php

Tudor Rose Club, Southall

This is the normal mode of illegal parking by cutomers of the club, blocking pavements and parking on zigzag lines at the zebra crossing:

The police and Parking Services seem quite content to turn a blind eye to this flagrant breaking of the law.

Pictures taken on 24th December 2006.

Urinating in Public Places

This email received from a resident of Southall:

Dear Ealing Council,

we are suffering from very unsociable and threatening behaviour mainly by Somalians living on and around our road – they tend to congregate just outside our car park and their main activity seems to be to just loiter, eat the green plant (drug) and then urinate in public without regard to the presence of children or families, show no respect for others. For example if I or my children are walking on the pavement, they will not move to one side to allow people to pass, we end up walking around them on the road. On a number of occasions when I’ve asked them to move to one side, but they are only ready to fight and are abusive. They also dump their rubbish on the pavements on a regular basis. We asked the council to inspect the rented properties where the Somalians, live to ensure they comply with health and safety and other legislation – nothing has been done to date.

Flouting The Law

Illegal parking outside the Tudor Rose Club, photo taken May 2006.