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Posted on Wednesday, April 26
| GP struck off for being a ‘serious risk’ |
A DOCTOR has been struck off and branded a "serious risk" to patients because of poor levels of competency.
Dr Satya Das was suspended from Basildon PCT in 2006 after failing to improve standards at his two surgeries in Falstones and Lower Street, Noak Bridge.
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Posted by WebMaster on Thursday, April 17, 2008 (15:03:10)
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| I’m a good doctor, I just can't use a computer |
A TECHNOPHOBE doctor blamed his ignorance of computers for his failure to keep proper patient and prescription records, a GMC hearing was told.
Dr Satya Das was suspended from Basildon PCT in 2006, after failing to improve standards at his two surgeries, in Falstones and Lower Street, Noak Bridge.
He failed a GMC performance assessment in February, 2007, when a panel ruled his professional performance was deficient.
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Posted by WebMaster on Thursday, April 17, 2008 (14:50:55)
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| Next Crunch |
Date: Saturday 04/19/2008
Location: Noak Bridge, Coppice Lane
Refuse Type: Garden Waste; Household Waste
Start Time - 09:00
End Time - 12:00 |
Posted by admin on Thursday, August 23, 2007 (19:39:53)
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The graffiti Is Getting Ridculous There Is Nbp Titch Bomb Venom Snake Wrote Every Were and Have You seen The Green Bench Thing at the park i was horrified I Thought I Would write That as its a Problem To me. |
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, August 05, 2007 (20:25:11)
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| Travellers' last-minute plea to stay |
A NEIGHBOUR has attacked the latest attempt by travellers to get permission to live on land in Wickford as "laughable".
David Walsh, 56, lives opposite five illegally-built homes in Hovefields Drive, Wickford and says the applicants have not lived on the plots for more than a year.
The travellers should have levelled the green belt plots by the end of last month.
Instead, they have submitted last-minute applications for three years' temporary planning permission to stay, claiming they need them while alternative, authorised sites are developed.
Last March, they were given a year to get off the land and reinstate the sites, when Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott rejected appeals against Basildon Council's refusal of previous planning applications.
Most of the plots have stood empty and derelict ever since. Some are used occasionally by passing travellers who do not own the land.
Mr Walsh, of Hovefields Avenue, said: "This is a joke. The council should have bulldozed them by now. There is nothing to stop it legally.
"If the travellers are going to argue they need these homes, because there is nowhere else to go, it will be laughable.
"The land is used as transit sites by other travellers or just lies empty."
Travellers' campaigner Dr Donald Kenrick is listed as the agent for applications submitted by the Sweeny, Boswell, Connors and Hamilton families for the plots.
Echo, 06/03/07 |
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (12:46:35)
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| Fortune of War: Why can't we get it straight? |
An MP has lambasted a £250,000 road resurfacing plan for the notorious Fortune of War roundabout, saying the road should be straightened instead.
Essex County Council is set to relay a 500m stretch of the A127, across the bend in both carriageways, where the busy road cuts through the former roundabout on the outskirts of Laindon.
But Angela Smith, MP for Basildon and East Thurrock, claimed it would be a waste of money, saying many people believed it should be spent on straightening out the dangerous kink in the road.
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Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (12:36:32)
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| Victory for villagers in traveller battle |
Villagers in Crays Hill celebrated after the Government announced the massive illegal Dale Farm traveller site must go.
Hundreds of travellers living on more than 40 plots at the camp in Oak Lane will now face eviction.
But they are expected to still challenge Basildon Council in a High Court review of the decision to boot them out.
Residents who have fought to get the illegal camp removed for more than five years were ecstatic.
Tory councillor John Dornan, who lives in oak Road near the camp said: "I am very ecstatic and emotional.
"For once the Government has made a very brave decision. We feared the worst."
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Dale Farm campaigner Grattan Puxon was flabbergasted and expected the travellers to be given temporary permission to stay.
He said: "At least we are protected from eviction pending the judicial review."
Echo, Friday 23rd February 2007 |
Posted by admin on Tuesday, March 06, 2007 (12:29:20)
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| No buyers found for legal traveller sites |
Travellers living on illegal sites are snubbing the chance to buy legal homes in Wickford.
For months, pitches at the Meadow Lane site, Runwell, have been up for sale, priced between £30,000 and £50,000.
Basildon Council leader Malcolm Buckley said it showed the huge demand to build illegally in the district's green belt was economically driven.
He said: "Here we have four empty legal homes right on our border. We had a legal site at the former Heron service station off the A127 also come up for sale and no travellers bought that.
"These examples highlight how some travellers prefer to build illegally on the green belt for economic reasons, because they do not want to pay the full market value for legal plots or developable land.
"It costs less to buy cheap green belt, build illegally and then take a chance on getting planning permission, but there is no excuse if legal sites are available."
The pitches were developed during a £500,000 revamp of the camp, during which several illegally-built plots moved closer to legal ones and given planning permission.
Mr Buckley said the council would pass the details to Ruth Kelly, Secretary of State for Local Government, who is due to reach a final decision over the large unauthorised Dale Farm camp at Crays Hill this month.
A spokeswoman for Chelmsford Council that is responsible for the pitches, said: "These were plots created during the work, which is finished save for some road surfacing and fencing.
"They went on the market in local papers on August 10, but have now gone into the Travellers' Times magazine and have had a better response."
Meadow Lane is an established English Gipsy community.
The pitches, which can only be occupied by Gipsies or travellers, have consent for a mobile home, touring caravan and dayroom and are connected to mains sewers, electricity and water.
For more details send your name and address to P J Masson, Chelmsford Council, Freighter House, Drovers Way, Chelmsford, Essex, CM2 5PP by February 28.
Echo, Wednesday 7th February 2007 |
Posted by admin on Saturday, February 10, 2007 (17:42:52)
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| Evacuation amid blasts fear |
Hundreds of residents were evacuated from their homes after fears a fire would trigger a huge gas explosion.
Almost 600 people living within 200 metres of a workshop at Southend Farm, in Southend Road, Billericay, were not allowed to return to their homes until about 3.30pm (Friday 26th Jan).
The residents - from an area bound by Southend Road, Grange Road, Outwood Common Road and Highfield Road - are instead seeking refuge in Mayflower Hall, Billericay School and Mayflower School.
The blaze started after a liquid petroleum gas cylinder exploded at the workshop at about 12.30pm yesterday.
More than 30 firefighters tackled the flames for at least three hours, as crowds of onlookers gathered to watch black clouds of smoke filling the sky.
The fire burnt through the roof of the 20m x 30m workshop. Residents were cleared from their homes for fear the heat could trigger an explosion of several other cylinders, containing oxygen and highly-explosive acetylene gas.
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Posted by admin on Friday, February 02, 2007 (15:24:55)
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| Protest over travellers' site |
Ruth Kelly snubbed talks with residents over illegally camped travellers, despite a banner-waving protest at her London office.
About 50 residents, local politicians armed with placards and banners, and Billericay Tory MP John Baron staged a singing demonstration outside the Department for Communities and Local Government offices yesterday.
They demanded a Government investigation into the Dale Farm traveller site at Oak Lane, Crays Hill.
The demo was prompted by the Echo's Travellers: The Truth series which exposed links between the huge illegal encampment and other sites across the south east, as well as mansions in the Irish town of Rathkeale.
Security guards from Mrs Kelly's department kept a close watch as the group demanded the Secretary of State meet them and order a probe into our revelations.
TV, radio and newspaper reporters were blocked from the building, but Mr Baron and a small number of protesters were allowed in to deliver a letter, including the event's organiser, Laindon Park councillor Tory John Dornan.
The letter demanded:
* Mrs Kelly takes evidence in the Echo articles into account when making her decision over the future of Dale Farm which is due to be made by February 28.
* She orders a separate wider Government probe into links between illegal traveller sites and homes in Rathkeale.
* Mrs Kelly agrees to meet residents of the settled community so they can hear their side of the story about living next to Europe's biggest illegal camp.
Campaigners met Mr Baron in committee room 19 of the House of Commons for talks, also snubbed by Mrs Kelly, after travelling from Crays Hill by coach.
Mr Baron said: "We need a broader inquiry because the planning inquiry only looks at Dale Farm. Research by the Echo has revealed links between Dale farm and other sites, which casts doubt over traveller claims they have nowhere else to go.
"No one is looking to discriminate against a minority, but we need to be fair with all information and ask this research is considered before Mrs Kelly reaches her decision over Dale Farm."
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