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Fewer Beds in New Whipps Cross Plan Not-For-Profit, We Need Your Support to Stay That Way Your independent community newspaper Free Oct 2020, No. 67 WALTHAM Email [email protected] Facebook /WalthamForestEcho Instagram @walthamforestecho Tweet @WFEcho FOREST ECHO Visit walthamforestecho.co.uk News Features News Arts & Culture Sport Merger of primary care A platform has been Walthamstow resident How a Walthamstow choir The cricket club that groups in East London could set up to help local told to travel 562 miles has met the challenge of rebounded from lockdown see NHS treatments cut people find local jobs for Covid-19 test social-distanced singing to play a curtailed season P . 3 P . 5 P . 7 P . 12 P . 18 arents concerned about air pollution around local schools Fresh air last month launched a Pnew 'Ditch Pollution' campaign. Environmental group Mums for Lungs Walthamstow launched the three-week anti-pollution campaign on Car Free Day, a national day of action when parents are encouraged to leave their cars at home and walk or use public transport for the school run instead. Kay Ali and Ruth Board (pictured) helped put up 250 posters covering more than 30 primary schools and nurs- eries in both Walthamstow and Leyton, to encourage parents to ditch their cars. They are also celebrating the creation of five local 'school streets' which ban traffic during peak hours – some- thing made possible by Waltham Forest Council. Kay said: “Mums for Lungs are a group of parents across London, campaigning for cleaner air and reductions of emissions for everyone, Mums for Lungs Walthamstow campaigners Ruth Board (left, with son George) and Kay Ali (right, with son Eisa) Credit Patricia Board and in particular for children and babies.” The Echo is free for everyone. As a Fewer beds in new Whipps Cross plan not-for-profit, we need your support to stay that way. If you would like to support our publisher WFWellComm Report confirms intention to reduce bed numbers at rebuilt hospital with a one-off donation scan this QR code with your PayPal app: by Victoria Munro, Local manages the hospital, has pub- trust says it has now “adopted Cross’s disused nursing accom- Democracy Reporter, lished its vision for the “once- an assumption of 525 beds”. The modation, allowing usual service and James Cracknell in-a-lifetime” redevelopment. local population is expected to to continue unaffected in the It forms the first part of the ‘busi- grow by 10% over the next decade existing building throughout. By ewly-released plans ness case’ which has now been but the trust expects improved reducing the size of the current for the proposed approved by government, with a care out of hospital and faster “sprawling” site – parts of which Whipps Cross Uni- more detailed submission due to treatment will reduce the num- predate the founding of the NHS versity Hospital be drawn up next year. ber of beds needed. It also insists itself – the trust will make room Nrebuild explain why bed numbers The current Whipps Cross site the new hospital will be able to for around 1,500 homes, half could be cut by around 50 – despite in Leytonstone had 576 beds increase capacity when required. of which will be ‘affordable’, to a growing local population. available on average in 2018/19, The new hospital will be con- Barts Health NHS Trust, which while for the new hospital the structed on the site of Whipps Continued on Page 9 2 No. 67 OCTOBER 2020 WALTHAM FOREST ECHO COMMENT Our quest for justice continues Walthamstow activist Mel Strickland is appealing her conviction respond would be reduced. They argued that we momen- FELLOWSHIP IS LIFE tarily put the pilot into a state of fear when he spotted our group OCTOBER 2020 – No. 67 coming towards the plane, and Waltham Forest Echo is noted that a police officer slipped the borough's free and “nearly” fell over during a community newspaper. ten-second chase of a defendant We publish monthly and who hadn’t yet managed to lock distribute 10,000 free copies themselves to the plane. of each issue – and we will continue to do so Our lawyers refuted every one of during the ongoing these arguments; police resources public health crisis would be diverted by any protest Publisher David Floyd "She had been Editor James Cracknell a victim of sex Designer trafficking" Jonathan Duncan Head of Advertising The Stansted 15 protesters, including Mel Strickland (front row, far right) and, even if the pilot was fearful, it Klaudia Kiss does not constitute “endangering”. Head of Operations was one of 15 people who airport was not closed, and still waiting for their cases to be In its closing speech the prosecu- peacefully blocked a depor- no-one’s life was endangered. determined. At least one person tion stressed how we descended Paige Ballmi tation plane at Stansted The action was a direct challenge has been granted asylum; she had “in the darkness of the night” Engagement Manager Airport in March 2017. to the Home Office’s brutal and been a victim of sex trafficking and “like a swarm” – the latter Penny Dampier IWe dressed in bright pink hats racist deportation policy. We lives- and is now safely settled here. Her an echo of US President Donald and hi-vis jackets and walked treamed the protest on Facebook life would have been at risk had Trump’s racist description of Contributors directly on to the runway apron and were ecstatic the action was a she been deported. migrants crossing the border. In Mel Strickland, Victoria where the plane was being pre- success; we stopped all deportations The law we were accused of December 2018 the Chelmsford Munro, Mike Grimshaw, John pared. The coaches had just to Nigeria and Ghana that night. breaking was intended to pre- Crown Court jury unanimously Talbot, Quentin Drain, Letizia arrived but no passengers had Fast-forward 18 months and vent terrorism at airports. But the found us guilty on, of all days, Ghisletta, Anne Strudwick, boarded. We wore jumpers say- we were beginning a trial – for specific allegation of “endanger- International Human Rights Day. Vasu Sellamuthu, Jo Sealy, ing “mass deportations kill” and “endangering the safety of an ing” was not mentioned by pros- We are now appealing that deci- Michelle Edwards, James Fenn erected a tripod and banner aerodrome” – that would last ecutors until four months later, sion and are awaiting our case at The member organisations saying “no-one is illegal”. several weeks. In true Orwel- after our initial court hearing the Court of Appeal on 24th–26th of WFWellComm CIC are: I locked on around the nose lian style, the government had for aggravated trespass, a much November. We hope the court will Community Transport Waltham wheel of the plane, with three responded by charging us with lesser offence. clear our names and that this will Forest, Social Spider CIC, HEET. others. We had trained and knew the very thing it was itself guilty In our trial the prosecution be a victory against an increas- WFWellComm CIC Board: what we had to do. We refused of; endangering people's safety. argued that we had endangered ingly repressive state. David Floyd (Social Spider CIC) to leave until the police cut us Out of the 60 people scheduled safety at the airport by divert- Meanwhile, the government is Tom Ruxton (HEET) out. The only damage was to for that deportation flight, eleven ing police resources – so that if guilty of 'terrorism' in the literal Helen Tredoux the perimeter fence, which the remain in the UK and, of these, a terrorist attack had coinciden- sense; its detention and forc- (Community Transport WF) airport estimated to cost £150 six have won their immigration tally occurred at the same time as ible deportation policy is based to repair. No-one was hurt, the appeals. The remaining five are our action, the police's ability to around terrorising people. Contact Call 020 8521 7956 Email [email protected] Post The Mill, 7 - 11 Coppermill Lane, Walthamstow E17 7HA Coping with Covid-19 Advertising It's certainly no surprise that we might print in this edition 20 pages rather than our usual Call 07732 000 430 An introduction from Covid-19 cases are rising again, about case numbers, for 16. This comes after a successful Email [email protected] editor James Cracknell but it's also not unreasonable to example, will be out of date 'V-shaped' recovery in our adver- expect a national government to before the ink has dried. If tising revenue over the last six ello and welcome to fulfil the most basic of its roles you do want to get the latest months. I'd like to thank local Issue 67 of Waltham by providing clear, consistent information on exactly how businesses and organisations that Forest Echo. As we public health advice for the the virus is spreading in our have placed their trust in us and Hgo to press, at the end of Sep- whole population. Sadly, such community, I suggest using continue to support us – it really tember, the prime minister simple demands remain unmet. the Waltham Forest Council means a lot! has just announced a new set The nature of Covid-19 – in website, while for any significant In the paper this month, on Page 7, Waltham Forest Echo is a member of of measures restricting social addition to the government's local updates do of course visit a Walthamstow resident is told IMPRESS: The Independent Monitor of The Press. For more information activity, in a bid to minimise regular U-turns – present a walthamforestecho.co.uk. to travel 562 miles for a Covid- on the Echo’s complaints policy and the impact of a “second wave” significant challenge for us as a You may notice that the paper 19 test amid confusion over the how to make a complaint visit: walthamforestecho.co.uk/complaints of coronavirus.
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