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Croxley Danes, a New School in Three Rivers District gets the Go-Ahead

Three Rivers Planning Committee approved plans for the new Croxley Danes School at the end of January. Construction can now go ahead providing outstanding drainage issues are resolved. Croxley Danes School initially opened in September 2017 with 120 Year 7 students in temporary accomodation at St Clement Danes School. When its new premises are ready it will be an all-ability, co-educational state secondary school serving South West Hertfordshire with a capacity of 1206 students aged 11-18.

UK Chemical Industry will be Badly Damaged by Brexit - Starting Now as Companies Plan to Reduce Future Supply Complications

It is not just engineering which benefits from the free transit of products, parts and components along, often complex, international manufacturing and supply chains. The UK chemicals industry also relies on intermediate products and components being made in a succession of different countries. The import of goods for additional processing and subsequent re-export is common. Trade barriers of any kind - tariffs, duties, quotas, delays, bureaucracy - would be disastrous.

It is now confirmed that the European Medicines Agency will leave London and move to Amsterdam.

The European Medicines Agency (EMA), which approves and registers medicines and medical appliances for use and sale within the EU was originally located in London in recognition of the UK's strong position and world-wide reputation in the testing, approval, assessment and regulation of medicines. The EMA is somewhat different in structure and accountability to most other regulators. It functions as a decentralised scientific agency of the EU with its main responsibility as the protection and promotion of public and animal health within the EU, EFTA and the EEA, through the evaluation and supervision of medicines for human and veterinary use. Its operation is overseen by a management board consisting of a representative from each member state, two each from the European Commission, the Parliament and patients organisations, and one each representating doctors' and veterinarians' organisations.

Another Blow for South West Herts as Mayor Khan Cancels Step-Free Access at Croxley Met Line Station

Transport for London (TfL) recently announced the names of 13 more London Underground stations to be made step-free. But when it came to South West Hertfordshire the list included Rickmansworth - but not Croxley. TfL claimed that Rickmansworth is a cheaper and less complex scheme than Croxley. Nick Hollinghurst, Lib Dem County Councillor for Tring, who is a member of the HCC Cabinet Panel dealing with transport, said, "That may be true but both stations need step-free access - and anyway, if one station needs a complex scheme it clearly indicates that there is a greater need there. So actually, what TfL thought was an excuse for failing to make Croxley step-free, was really an admission that they'd got it wrong twice. In fact Croxley is the station they should be doing first!"