I'm all for good old fashioned Civic Pride, but I've just had the latest Hillingdon People through the door with a local supplement, full of utopian pictures of good citizens excitedly expressing their unfettered joy and pride at living locally. Has their been a Maoist revolution? Pass the bucket someone.

(PS Are local elections coming up I wonder......??)

I suppose the new locals are full of Civic pride that has been laid on for them, as most of the locals are new to the area and compared to where they came from have never had it so good, whereby the original hayedsweedgnawer has seen so many new bye laws and changes the place is so far removed from what Hayes was all about, Industry has moved on, the town closed off and run down, too many people too few amenities.

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

Agree with that

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Lets be careful out there !

Jim has my vote..

You going for it this time Jim

I have to say that in these days of apparent austerity, do we really need a copy Hillingdon People in one of the thousands of homes in the Borough? This expensive looking glossy news sheet must cost a fortune in editorial, printing & distribution, and this particular issue (with it's additional removable local ward section) does look suspiciously like a political propaganda newsletter (which is obviously illegal for tax payers to fund).

This is the 21st century. Perhapsthese publications should be made available from the LBH's interweb site, or available upon request via e-mail. In addition, I have no objection if politically neutral hard copies are made available at Libraries and other LBH publicly accessible buildings.

If LBH are really pushing the 'green' agenda, they should bin the Hillingdon People and soon. However, it seems like votes are more important when it comes to election time

I would hope it's self financing, though there aren't many ads in it so I doubt it.

All in all, Hillingdon is a great place to live when you consider the alternatives, OK we knock the Council everybody does that, whatever Borough they live, Hillingdon I do believe have got it right on most things, you only need to see Camden, or Islingdon to see that, the Borough is the first place immigrants enter via the airport, ilegal or otherwise, look at Hillingdon as the yardstick as to what the whole Country is about, many stay, some move on, yet despite the fluid situation it stays pretty stable, Riots are what happens in other places, streets are swept, all the roads have lighting, the one thing everybody notices, and the same with most Boroughs, not many regular plod, but thats more national than local, unless some third party comes up for election, in Hayes would sooner go with what we have than go back to the bad old days.

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Its not always the biggest and the bestest, its them that make the least mistakes.

I agree, I found Hillingdon very helpful when you first move to the area. I love the Hillingdon Card.

The recycling scheme isn't too rigorous and they are very good at providing new recycle bags very frequently.

As most of you know I am a Hayes girl born & bread. Except for one who was born at home the rest of my children were born in Hillingdon Hospital. I lived in West Drayton from 1961, the last house for 28 years till we moved to Hampshire in 2004.
But although it's taken me a fair while to get used to being here, I'll never regret moving. We lived in a nice road in West Drayton, but everything was going downhill. When we go back to visit anyone in the area we see how much worse it's become. One of my sons lives in Hillingdon and he always says how much nicer it is here. Another son moved here in 2009, and his inlaws followed from Harlington this year. It's very sad.