Divas on De Beauvoir

On Sunday night a quartet of divas – male and female – took De Beauvoir residents through the centuries with an array of popular favourites from opera, Gilbert and Sullivan, West End musicals and 'drawing room' songs.

If you missed them, they'll be back again in September.

Picture: Charles Court Opera (of Rosemary Branch fame).

A Labour team returned to represent De Beauvoir

De Beauvoir residents yesterday re-elected three Labour councillors to represent them on local issues.

Rob Chapman, Gulay Icoz and Tom Ebbutt will represent you for the next four years, along with Hackney Mayor Jules Pipe and Hackney South & Shoreditch MP Meg Hillier - also re-elected yesterday.

Outgoing Labour Councillor, Chris McShane, said he was extremely proud of the work Labour had done in the past 4 years and delighted there will be an equally strong Labour team working for De Beauvoir in the years to come.

Votes for De Beauvoir in full:
Tory 1017
Tory 1073
Rob Chapman Lab 2522
Tom Ebbutt Lab 2456
Lib 1513
Green 800
Gulay Icoz Lab 2307
Lib 1245
Tory 993
Lib 856

Meg Hillier won with 55% of the vote, up 3% on the last General Election. Jules Pipe was re-elected as Mayor of Hackney on first preference votes.

Terrible election for the Tories
The Conservative candidate for MP, Simon Nayyar, came in 3rd with just 13% of the vote - less than the Conservative vote at the last election. Locally, the leader of the Conservative group on Hackney Council also lost his seat.

Demolition Time!

The final hurdle has now been crossed for redevelopment to begin on De Beauvoir's Colville Estate.

Bulldozers began work today to clear the Bridport House site to allow construction to begin.

Working with the local TRA (CETRA) over a number of years, Labour councillors have fought to get millions of pounds in joint funding from central government and Hackney Council to provide 42 new homes for overcrowded families in the area.

This will be the start of a plan to redevelop the entire estate with the support of residents in the coming years.

PM meets De Beauvoir team on the campaign trail

PM Gordon Brown tonight met up with Labour's team as they campaigned to make sure Labour win again for the people of De Beauvoir.

Rob Chapman, Tom Ebbutt and Gulay Icoz had spent the day speaking to residents on Whitmore Estate as election Thursday approaches.

If you'd like to help make sure De Beauvoir keeps three hard working Labour councillors, a Mayor and MP, get in touch.