Three fly-tippers caught on camera have been issued with fly-tipping fines totalling £1,000.

The trio were spotted by council cameras placed on Devon Road, Barking.

They had their identities confirmed by a concerned resident who was shown images of the culprits. The trio had been featured on an episode of the Wall of Shame, Barking and Dagenham’s web-series that aims to catch fly-tippers.

In total, 5 fly-tipping and littering Fixed Penalty Notices (FPNs) have been issued to the trio, one of whom was spotted fly-tipping on multiple occasions.

The borough’s newly elected Young Mayor, Labella Anum, will continue to support domestic violence charity Refuge during her term representing the young people of Barking and Dagenham.

Labella, 15, was recently voted into the role by her peers and will pick up the fundraising baton from her predecessor Jessica Soares Paim.

Having been part of the Barking and Dagenham Youth Forum for the last three years, Labella felt now was the right time for her to stand to be Young Mayor.

Barking and Dagenham’s Valence House Museum secured valuable funding from the Art Fund to undertake conservation work on one of the 73 Fanshawe portraits in its collection. The portrait of Sarah, Viscountess Castleton, painted by artist John Riley (1646-1691) dates back to c1675, and is part of an extensive Fanshawe archive collection, which the museum holds. Along with the conservation, the museum commissioned filmmaker Claw Collective to document the process.

 

A Barking man has been fined over £1000 for failing to provide the details of two people caught littering from his car.

Council CCTV cameras caught two individuals dropping litter from a Vauxhall Astra, which was later discovered to belong to Mr Kwame Sarpong on 18 October 2019.

Under Section 17 of the Greater London Council Act 1972, Mr Sarpong was asked to provide the details of the two people caught committing the offence at the time.

However, despite being reminded he failed to do so and was summoned to court.

Barking and Dagenham Council has told another local store that it must shut its doors for trading after it continued to ignore the regulations in place to stop coronavirus from spreading.



Barking Fish of Station Parade, Barking had been warned several times by council enforcement officers around its behaviour and response to the pandemic, but it failed to engage and comply with the advice provided.

Last week the government’s roadmap started to see lockdown restrictions begin to ease, with more restrictions expected to be lifted in the coming weeks. As the national situation begins to de-escalate, Barking and Dagenham Council is following suit by gradually returning to a more normal way of running its services.

Barking and Dagenham took the lead urging Councillors from across London in a call for the government to reconsider a decision to calculate school funding for the next financial year based on the number of pupils classed as ‘disadvantaged’ in October 2021.

The census date for Pupil Premium funding, designed by the government to help disadvantaged pupils with their learning, was changed from January 2021 back to October 2020, which affects the funding available to support the most disadvantaged pupils in the borough.

Last night, Wednesday 10 March, Barking and Dagenham Council launched its Domestic Abuse Commission Report. The Commission, which is a UK first, has brought together a panel of national experts and, chaired by Polly Neate CBE, CEO of Shelter, has been looking at attitudes to domestic abuse in the local community. The report, which is a culmination of 17 months of work, is intended to act as blueprint for others to follow in tackling this national issue, which has only been exacerbated by a year of lockdown caused by COVID-19. 

Some great news for Barking and Dagenham residents planning a spring clean; from 5 April 2021 they will be able to recycle more items at home. 

Currently, residents can recycle the following items in their brown bin:

• paper and thin card
• plastic bottles, cans and tins, and thick cardboard

From 5 April, residents will also be able to recycle the following items in their brown bin:

Barking and Dagenham Council have been shortlisted to apply for funding for a Football Foundation programme called ‘Active Through Football’. The funding will support increased physical activity and wellbeing for people aged 16 and over - and a consultation exercise is underway to gather ideas.