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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

A year later and I'm still campaigning to keep a stand-alone full-service post office in #Chiswick. Please sign the new petition against moving it into a store, reducing its space and the services it provides: www.change.org/p/chiswick-n...

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Chiswick needs and deserves a stand-alone full-service post office

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

Business rates to be abolished by an @Conservatives government. Huge news. Tories understand business and know that the business rates tax is unfair. Businesses need to thrive: taxed on success, not taxed for taxation's sake. #retail #hospitality #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick

Screen grab of the post on X/Twitter from Mel Stride, shadow chancellor of the exchequer speaking at the Conservative Party conference a few minutes ago. It shows Mel at the podium announcing the abolition of business rates as a direct result of getting the economy under control.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Residents and businesses in #Chiswick need its post office to re-open. So do customers who come from other areas because its services are so extensive. Banking hub, travel money, Drop & Go, emergency passports, car tax, more. Please sign the petition: change.org/p/reopen-chi...?

Image of the petition site showing that there are 3,000 signatures.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Super article about the Chiswick Repair Cafe. I've been several times and am a very happy customer. Delicious cakes to eat, and a chance to meet locals, while waiting your turn. So lucky to have such a brilliant initiative in #Chiswick. archive.ph/7DEYb www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/...

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The repair cafés fixing communities – plus how to ‘make do and mend’ at home

Voluntary initiatives like the Chiswick Repair Café in west London are helping to reduce waste, share skills and bring people together

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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it Don’t say it “Looks like we’ve had our summer!”

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Mind @mind.org.uk · 20/03/2025

Sign up to become a campaigner if you’d like to find out any future ways you can get involved with our benefits campaigning work 👉 www.mind.org.uk/news-campaig... 11/11

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Become a campaigner

Mind campaigners speak out about the real issues affecting people with mental health problems. Find out what it's like to be a campaigner, and how to sign up.

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Mind @mind.org.uk · 20/03/2025

On Tuesday the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions confirmed major cuts and changes to disability benefits. Let’s look at what this might mean for specific benefits ⬇ 1/11

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WildChiswick @wildchiswick.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Thanks @fionamathews.bsky.social for her fab talk on the conservation of mammals last night. The audience was fully engaged in what she had to say. Time to respect nature as part of our community.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

It's not just cost 'it's the hassle that parking causes too: 62% of drivers say the lack of parking availability and parking restrictions are putting them off" and "82% ... believe councils should help to save the high street by offering free parking." www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/cars/a...

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Expensive parking is killing our high streets

A study from the AA and a report from Direct Line have both found that parking fees are a key reason why people aren't going shopping on the high street.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Setting off to meet residents of Syon & Brentford Lock ward, supporting Mike Dennis our @conservatives.bsky.social candidate in the by-election on 6 March. Residents hugely critical of the damage the Labour government is doing to this country and of the incompetence of @hounslowcouncil.bsky.social.

Photo of Cllr Ron Mushiso, Mike Dennis (former councillor and now candidate) and Cllr Joanna Biddolph as they meet before delivering leaflets and listening to residents' concerns.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

LTN and parking fines to go up by £30: It's another attack on small businesses in town centres, too. Shops, cafes, restaurants and service businesses all need parking to be affordable and plentiful otherwise their customers will drive away: www.telegraph.co.uk/money/sadiq-...

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Sadiq Khan launches another attack on London drivers

War on motorists worsens as Labour mayor approves ‘unjustifiable’ price increases

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

"The hospitality sector is the third-largest employer in the UK and 40% of this workforce is aged under 25." "Working in a bar or pub was once a rite of passage, yet here we are taking crucial jobs away from young students." Closures will increase loneliness, too: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2014...

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Rachel Reeves must act to save pubs... but there's little concern in Westminster

Rising energy costs, taxes and a lack of support are pushing the nation's pubs to the brink, with 9,000 at risk of closure this year... and we'll all lose out in the long run.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Not only retailers. Hospitality businesses have been raided, too, and tell me they have had their worst January trade for years, not including tough times during Covid. Please, if you can, eat, drink and shop locally. #shoplocal and support #IndieChiswick www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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M&S boss says retailers being 'raided like piggy banks'

Stuart Machin says the sector is facing a wave of tax rises and the government needs to

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Struggling with your mental health? Actor Steve McFadden is phenomenal as @bbceastenders Phil Mitchell as he sinks into depression and experiences psychotic symptoms. Do read the sensitive summaries from @samaritans.bsky.social @mindcharity.bsky.social Rethink and CALM www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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EastEnders to air mental health storyline for Phil Mitchell

The storyline will follow Phil, and the characters closest to him

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Public loos: I've been banging on about this for years. We need more public loos. I know residents of #ChiswickGunnersbury ward who limit the time they spend shopping, and who dehydrate before going out, for fear of needing a loo. Councils have much more to do: fitzrovianews.com/2025/01/20/n...

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Nearly 100 public toilets closed in London over ten years says Age UK - The Fitzrovia News

Almost 100 of the capital’s public toilets have closed over the last ten years, according to new research by Age UK London.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Setting off for a (rather muddy) walk in Brentford finding out what is needed to manage flooding - this year's brief for the @LBofHounslow scrutiny panel on housing and environment. Fascinating insights from local residents including boat dwellers. @LandscapeThames #Brentford

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

A third parking story today: The AA warns: “The cost of parking, as well as ease of payment, has an impact on consumers and they will ‘vote with their wheels’ if they deem the price too expensive, or a hassle if they can only pay via an app or by phone'.”: archive.ph/dI359

Chart from the linked Telegraph article showing councils' parking revenue increasing since 2009; sharply decreasing from 2019 when Covid arrived; sharply increasing until it reached the same 2019 level in 2021; then increasing again.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

1/2: Two parking stories in one day. First, the revelation that Rudolph received a fine when parking the sleigh during the #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick - the parking app failed - and Scrooge's rules prevail. www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...

Two photos next to each other. On the left is Rudolph clutching his parking fine; on the right Rudolph is with Father Christmas at the switch-on of the Christmas lights in Chiswick.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

For children aged five to 11: Do join in with the #Chiswick #Christmas scavenger hunt looking for unexpected things in shop windows to win prizes incl dinner for two at Sam's Kitchen, vouchers in many shops, and ice creams. Children are loving the fun and parents are chattering about the prizes.

List of shops which have put something unexpected in their windows for the scavenger hunt. The edges of the list have been decorated with colourful Christmas images including stars, swags, baubles, candy canes, parcels, Santa hats, woolly socks.

List of prizes, in alphabetical order by shop/business not in value order. The top 10 prizes are valued between £110 and £50 each.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

All dressed up and ready for your #Christmas shopping spree in #Chiswick. Two sparkly trees: one at the top of Turnham Green Terrace lit with 4,500 lights provided by Wheelers; one on Chiswick High Road lit with white lights and baubles provided by Hounslow council. #shoplocal support #indiechiswick

Christmas tree in a pot, sparkling with 4,500 white lights and topped with a glittery star, at the top of Turnham Green Terrace, provided by Wheelers Flowers and Garden Centre.

Christmas tree in a box brightly lit with white lights, white baubles and topped with a white snowflake shaped star on Chiswick High Road, provided by Hounslow council.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Fabulously classily Christmassy as usual from La Trompette on Devonshire Road. I can't walk along without stopping to read the menu, a moment of pleasure in a busy day. #Christmas #Chiswick #hospitality #shoplocal

Photo showing the front of La Trompette with pretty strands of sparkly white lights cascading down the windows and strings of white sparkly lights threading through the box hedging at the front along the pavement.

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Very British Problems @soverybritish.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Orders in the Very British Problems shop come with a free Christmas card for a limited time only, use code BRITISHXMAS at checkout 🎁 verybritishproblemstshirts.com

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Fab #Christmas lights switch-on in #Chiswick with an exuberant, fun singalong led by Chiswick School choir. Father Christmas officiated with the help of a reindeer. Thanks to Chiswick Lighting, M&S, Sainsbury, Tesco for mince pies, choc teacakes, chocs and to Wheeler's for a sparkly tree on TGT.

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Christmas is coming to #Chiswick with a fun scavenger hunt for five to 11 year olds. Look for unexpected things in shops to try to win one of over 50 prizes for the family. Happy hunting! 🎄🎁🎅 More info: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...

Photo of young children looking intently in awe at something - perhaps a surprise visit from Father Christmas,

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Joanna Biddolph @joannabiddolph.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Ask for Angela scheme is a crucial safety net for anyone who feels vulnerable on a night out. It is shocking to know that in some pubs the posters are meaningless, raising expectations and giving false comfort. Tory cllrs in Hounslow want it to be strengthened: www.chiswickw4.com/default.asp?...

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