by Editorial Team | Feb 9, 2026 | News
Residents’ personal details may be at risk from compromised IT systems at a market research business working in our area In posts to multiple Facebook community groups, with memberships totalling more than 50,000 users, a market research focus group recruiter...
by Editorial Team | Nov 5, 2025 | Council Finances
Hillingdon Council is facing a severe financial crisis. Its latest financial report forecasts the 2025/26 budget to be £31.6 million overspent as of the end of August.. (Note: The council’s headline figure is £30.2m, but £31.6m is the figure required to make its...
by Editorial Team | Nov 5, 2025 | Council Finances
This series of articles has been written by residents, for residents, and while the subjects covered are both nuanced and complex, we have aimed to keep the language simple and the explanations easy to understand. There are necessarily some terms that simply have to...
by Editorial Team | Nov 5, 2025 | Council Finances
Hillingdon Council’s financial crisis has not happened overnight. It has unfolded through a sequence of predictable steps, starting with the drawing down of significant sums from reserves – which last December’s Cabinet report described as being in “steady...
by Editorial Team | Nov 5, 2025 | Council Finances
The council’s most-used public explanation for the financial crisis is a multi-million-pound cost for supporting asylum seekers and Chagossian arrivals, which it claims the government should be funding. The council has cited a cost of £16m for asylum...
