vote darren rodwell for barking.at one of the borough's biggest new estates, weavers quarter, are impressed by his record. so this garden area is being charged at about £15,000 a year. just this one? just, just this one on its own. £15,000 _ matt lismore bought his two—bed shared ownership flat here four years ago. the service charges have been rising ever since. £15,000 a year. essentially, that covers 20 grass cuts a season, which you can see, this grass simply isn't in any condition to need that. keeping the plants alive, keeping all these areas free from debris, keeping the patio stones clean. and you can see that it simply isn't being done. this, to me, feels like an egregious overestimation. it seems like a fictitious charge. a lot of the plants here are dead. there isn't much grass. but the council says three staff work two days a week maintaining the gardens across the estate's nine blocks. barking and dagenham council is the freeholder for them all and has installed itself as the contractor for gardening, bu

rodwell, should be the labour candidate for barking at the next general election.p 28 concluded in dubai, for the first time the particpants agreed a deal to transition away from fossil fuels in energy systems in a just, orderly and equitable manner. but in latin america, tensions are high betwen the neighbouring countries of venzuela and guyana, over a potentially oil—rich border area. the dispute over the 62,000 square milejungle region of essequibo, within guyana's border, to which venezuela has laid claim, has been simmering since the ninetenth century, and is, at the moment, before the international court ofjustice. but now, venzuelan voters have backed the creation of a new state in a referendum, which would give the country control over the oil. today venuezala's presdient nicholas maduro, and the guyanese president irfan ali held a summit in st vincent and the grenadines. and there are concerns about the prospect of any conflict fuelling much broader geopolitical tensions — in september venezuela formally applied to join the brics group allying itself even