Category Archives: Waste incinerator

Sutton LibDems horrified by unreal McCoy’s car crash hustings

Posted on April 26, 2018 by

ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Hustings held ahead of this year’s local elections here in south London have been noticeably… well, dull. Until Tuesday night over in Carshalton, where Sutton LibDems, fighting to retain control of the council, sent in one of their … Continue reading →

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Lambert: ‘Disgrace’ of Sutton’s destruction of green spaces

Posted on April 21, 2018 by

Thanks to Brexit, MEPs are now an endangered species. Tomorrow morning one of them, Jean Lambert, London’s Green Party representative to the European Parliament, will be visiting the River Wandle in Beddington to highlight the plight of local wildlife and … Continue reading →

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Pollard’s manifesto makes election a question of honesty

Posted on April 6, 2018 by

ELECTION COUNTDOWN: Four years ago, the Conservatives in Croydon demonstrated their contempt for the electorate by not even bothering with a manifesto. This time round, as political editor WALTER CRONXITE reports, what they have produced is simply not very credible … Continue reading →

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Labour look to sack Veolia and build council homes in Sutton

Posted on April 3, 2018 by

Labour in Sutton tonight published its manifesto ahead of the local elections on May 3, including a promise to hold a public inquiry in what has become notorious as #SuttonBinShame, with the transfer of waste collection and street-cleaning services to … Continue reading →

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Council signs up to scheme to reduce use of fossil fuels

Posted on March 27, 2018 by

Croydon’s Labour-run council has promised to kick the fossil fuel habit… though they’re giving themselves until 2050 to do so. Who knows, maybe the Westfield shopping mall will have been built by the then? The news that Croydon had signed … Continue reading →

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Sutton official in bid to oust conservationist from science group

Posted on March 21, 2018 by

BELLE MONT reports on an attempt by a council official to intimidate an environmentalist’s opposition to Viridor’s poor performance over the Beddington wetlands A senior council official responsible for Sutton’s environmental policy is demanding that a local conservationist should quit … Continue reading →

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Sutton’s latest horror: the Beddington chainsaw massacre

Posted on March 20, 2018 by

Sutton LibDems’ ‘green’ credentials have been exposed again as bogus, as they have ordered the destruction of hundreds of trees in a nature reserve, just when the wild birds are nesting for spring. BELLE MONT reports More despair looms for … Continue reading →

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