Another one bites the dust
Dealer forced out of Nightingale Avenue drug den ...
New Labour cuts services to council tenants
Council tenants will be forced to pay out for a range of substantial repairs if the council goes ahead with plans to make savings to the housing budget ...
Parking mad!
Finding solutions to parking problems on the estate ...
999 is a joke
Police ignore firearm callout ...
Comeuppance for electricity conmen
Blackbird Leys residents who complained about London Electricity have been vindicated by energy regulator
Ofgem which fined the power firm £2m ...
Going postal!
The postbox on Nightingale Avenue is finally up and running ...
Border patrol: drugs, slugs and the Garden of Enid
After years spent ignoring the drug dealing problem on Blackbird Leys there are signs that
New Labour is now trying to appropriate the issue for itself ...
Kingfisher Green opens up
The IWCA would like to thank Al Cane of Leys News for kindly offering to open up
the premises at 26 Kingfisher Green for councillor surgeries ...
Police refuse compensation for victim of botched raid
Thames Valley Police have refused to pay compensation to Mrs Jeanette Langlais after her Blackbird Leys home
was mistakenly raided ...
Sweet Sixteen leaves bitter taste for New Labour
The council’s three-man licensing committee, which includes local New Labour councillors Pat Stannard and Ed Turner, has refused to reduce the classification of the latest Ken Loach film, Sweet Sixteen from 18 to 15 ...
Reclaiming our estate
Naming and shaming known crack-cocaine and heroin dealers was one of the solutions agreed by residents at the latest IWCA public meeting. Stuart Craft looks at the responses in the media and explains why everyone in the community has a role to play in the campaign to take Blackbird Leys back from the dealers ...
IWCA takes Oxford Mail to Press Complaints Commission
Stuart Craft of the IWCA has complained to the Press Complaints Commission about inaccurate reporting, subterfuge and denial of an opportunity to reply by the Oxford Mail ...
Rotten to the core
IWCA activist Lee Cole reports back on his enquiry into the work carried out by builders Wilmott Dixon on behalf of Ealing Family housing association. The response from tenants has revealed a problem far greater than previously imagined ...
Late delivery on post box
After numerous calls, Royal Mail has assured the IWCA that the postbox on Nightingale Avenue—destroyed by a car around 3 months ago—will be in place within a month ...
Plan 9 from outer space
New Labour planning decisions are off this planet ...
Together we’ll crack it! Public meeting discusses way forward on drugs issue
Blackbird Leys residents resolved to take action against class-A drug dealers at a public meeting organised by the IWCA on Saturday 29 June ...
Police respond to residents’ meeting with threats
IWCA warned against ‘contravening human rights’ of dealers ...
When the going gets tough … call in the university
After almost a year spent ignoring the drug-dealing problem on Blackbird Leys,
the Oxford Mail has recently run a number of high profile stories relating to the issue ...
IWCA councillor barred from surgery
IWCA councillor Stuart Craft was forced to hold his surgery in the open air after being barred from the Kingfisher Green office of the Leys Residents Association Committee at short notice ...
Highlights of the July meeting of the Leys, Iffley, Littlemore Area Committee
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