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Category Archives: Leila Ben-Hassel
Lacey still spinning as he hangs on to his job at Brick by Brick
It is not only the former council chief exec who has shown unconcealed contempt for the borough’s residents. Now, as our housing correspondent BARRATT HOLMES reports, the discredited head of the council-owned builders is pushing his luck, too Colm Lacey … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Callton Young, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Housing, Jane Avis, Leila Ben-Hassel, Section 114 notice, Stuart King
Tagged Brick by Brick, Callton Young, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, London Borough of Croydon, S114, Section 114, STUART KING, Tory
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King’s peers crown him Croydon Labour’s new deputy leader
CROYDON IN CRISIS: The alarm signals over the electoral fate of the Town Hall, and perhaps even the Croydon Central marginal parliamentary seat, saw the borough’s Labour councillors given a stern lecture last night. By WALTER CRONXITE, political editor Stuart … Continue reading
Posted in Alisa Flemming, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Leila Ben-Hassel, Manju Shahul Hameed, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Stuart King, Tony Newman
Tagged Alisa Flemming, Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon, Croydon Central, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Hamida Ali, Jo Negrini, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, Manju Shahul Hameed, Paul Scott, Sarah Jones MP, Steve Reed OBE, STUART KING, Tony Newman
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Ben-Hassel joins contest to become council deputy leader
‘We can’t do business as usual’ says rookie councillor looking to make an impression, writes KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter Leila Ben-Hassel, a Croydon councillor only since March 2019, last night announced herself as a fourth contender to become … Continue reading
Newman hand-picks ‘Secret Seven’ to check on finance panel
EXCLUSIVE: The beleaguered council leader has moved to avoid being held responsible for the borough’s massive £1.5bn debt and huge over-spend, reports KEN LEE A group of councillors, secretly hand-picked by Tony Newman, will meet tonight to discuss the council’s … Continue reading
Brick by Brick CEO says company has sold 6 houses. Or is it 5?
Our overdevelopment correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, reports on the latest admission of incompetence from Croydon Council’s loss-making house-builders Five. Or it might be six. Colm Lacey, the former council employee who has been promoted way beyond his skills and abilities to … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Housing, Jo Negrini, Leila Ben-Hassel, Vidhi Mohan
Tagged Alison Butler, Andrew Pelling, Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Council, Jo Negrini, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, London Borough of Croydon, Tory, Waddon
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Tory vote slumps to 15% as Ben-Hassel wins in Norbury
KEN LEE reports from a draughty church hall in south London where … nothing much was learned Leila Ben-Hassel is the new councillor for Norbury and Pollards Hill, following yesterday’s ward by-election, where the Tory vote collapsed amid the current … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon North, Jo Negrini, Leila Ben-Hassel, Norbury
Tagged Jo Negrini, Leila Ben-Hassel, Norbury, Norbury and Pollards Hill
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Seven in the running for Norbury and Pollards Hill by-election
KEN LEE, our Town Hall reporter, goes through the runners and riders for next month’s council by-election There are to be seven candidates in the Norbury and Pollards Hill ward by-election being staged on March 14, after UKIP and the … Continue reading
Posted in Leila Ben-Hassel, Norbury
Tagged Conservative, Green Party, Kathleen Garner, Labour, Leila Ben-Hassel, Liberal Democrats, Norbury, Norbury and Pollards Hill, Tory, UKIP
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Ben-Hassel is overwhelming winner for Labour in Norbury
WALTER CRONXITE, our political editor, on how a ward selection meeting last night capped off an altogether bad day for the council leadership Leila Ben-Hassel was last night selected as Labour’s candidate to stand in the Norbury and Pollards Hill … Continue reading