Khoodeelaar! Told you so. CRASSrole by 'Archant' group making 'Newham Recorder' RIDICUOULS, INCREDIBLE..

CRASSrole by 'Archant' group making 'Newham Recorder' RIDICUOULS, INCREDIBLE..

1130 GMT London Wednesday 13 January 2010. Editor © Muhammad Haque.  The ‘Newham Recorder’ is not a title that tells the truth to the people of Newham. Or about Newham. It is not a title that has told the truth in the main. Most of the time, during different ‘owners’, they ’Newham Recorder’ has been a vehicle for all kinds of misinformation, distortion and falsehood. This has not served the cause of the ordinary people of Newham. Or of the adjoining areas. As has been typified in the contents of the columns the title has carried with particular persistence and by-lines given to Tom Duncan, the ‘Newham Recorder’ has been a deeply ignorant paper. As if that were not bad enough for the people in East London who take the ‘Newham recorder’ as at all reliable, the current owners’ of the paper have made things ten times worse. As is seen in this brazenly untrue plug they are running for CROSSRAIL. 

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Jobs bonanza just the ticket as Crossrail link takes root

12 January 2010

THIS year is set to be significant for Crossrail as it starts key construction work on Europe's largest infrastructure project.

Thousands of jobs will be created along with a Tunnelling Academy set to be built in Newham, which will train people to use the skills required to work in and around tunnel excavations.

Crossrail needs an academy to address the shortage of people with the abilities to work on the multi-billion pound project, which will create 14,000 construction jobs, primarily among the unemployed and communities living on the route.

Major milestones include the start of work on the tunnel entrance at Royal Oak in West London this month and, by the end of the year, construction at new stations in central London.

Planning consent is being sought for a site to build the academy near the Aldersbrook Sidings, which is situated on railway land located on the Newham/Ilford border, to the west of Ilford Station.

The academy is expected to train some 3,000 people between now and 2015, with some classroom-based courses being available in late spring and the establishment being fully open by October. It is hoped it will remain after Crossrail opens in 2017 and continue to operate independently.

When it is completed the route will run from Maidenhead in Berkshire, under London's West End and through east London towards the Thames Estuary.

Transport Minister Sadiq Khan said: "In the six months since the first steel pile was driven into the foundations of the new Canary Wharf Crossrail Station, I've seen Britain's most ambitious rail project in decades begin to take shape on the ground.

"In 2010, London's commuters can now look forward to seeing a flurry of activity at sites across the route - work designed to benefit millions of people and leave a legacy for areas throughout London and the South East for generations to come."

London Mayor Boris Johnson predicts Crossrail will deliver at least £20billion in jobs and economic benefits to London with "every inch of the capital" benefiting from new transport links and less congestion.

Crossrail chairman Terry Morgan said: "Over the past year the momentum driving Crossrail has been unstoppable and we are in a terrific position to move on to the main construction of the railway in 2010."

Crossrail has started the formal tendering process for drilling the 15 miles of new tunnels to run beneath Docklands, the City and West End, linking the Great Eastern national rail line at Liverpool Street and the Great Western line at Paddington with Canary Wharf in the east, and Heathrow Airport in the west.

The line going east splits after Whitechapel, with one branch going to Stratford and Shenfield in Essex and the other to Canary Wharf and under the Thames to Abbey Wood in south east London.

In just under two years the first of the tunnel boring machines will start from Royal Oak towards Farringdon.

This will be followed by the launch of a tunnel boring machine in Docklands towards Farringdon.

Millions of cubic metres of the excavated material generated from building the new tunnels will be used by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds to help create a nature reserve at Wallasea Island, Essex.