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Crowley joins Beddington Independents for election campaign
INSIDE SUTTON: The former leader of the Conservative group at the Civic Centre has deferred his retirement to help see off challenges from LibDems and Reform, as ROSE HILL reports Tim Crowley, for seven years the leader of the Conservative … Continue reading
Posted in 2026 council elections, Bobby Dean, Carshalton and Wallington, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tim Foster
Tagged Beddington, Beddington Independents, Bobby Dean MP, LibDems, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Reform, Ruth Dombey, Suez, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tim Foster, Viridor
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Council hired ‘Real’ builders and dodged Grenfell grants ban
SPECIAL INVESTIGATION: Figures associated with a company that is banned from getting government contracts and grants because of its part in works carried out to Grenfell Tower have emerged on the board of another firm working on a housing scheme … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Property, Sadiq Khan, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Beech Tree Place, Brick by Brick, Department for Levelling UP Housing and Communities, DLUHC, GLA, Greater London Authority, Helen Bailey, Liberal Democrats, London, Mark Unsworth, Mayor, Mayor Sadiq Khan, Paul Nicholls, Real LSE Ltd, Richard Simpson, Sadiq Khan, Sutton, Sutton Council, The Rydon Group
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Council error sees £250,000 in benefits overpaid since 2016
Incompetence from Sutton Housing Partnership and their law department has seen bailiffs pay a visit to Sutton Council offices over an unpaid bill. By our Sutton investigations reporter, CARL SHILTON Sutton’s usually sedate council budget-setting meeting took place on Monday, … Continue reading
Dombey survives but Sutton results leave LibDems scarred
CARL SHILTON at the election count reports on how senior Liberal Democrats lost their council positions while their party clung on to power, as Labour won their first seats for 20 years The election fight in Sutton turned feral as … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Catherine Gray, Jayne McCoy, Jenny Batt, Luke Taylor MP, Marian James, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Waste incinerator
Tagged 2022 Local Elections, Beddington, Catherine Gray, Drew Heffernan, Jean Crossby, Jenny Batt, Luke Taylor, Ruth Dombey, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond
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Half of Sutton LibDem councillors quitting at May’s elections
Defending the indefensible, whether it is the dodgy deals over the council’s SDEN heat network, the appalling treatment of families with SEND children, or some of the ruling group’s more under-hand conduct, has taken its toll, writes our Civic Offices … Continue reading
Posted in 2022 council elections, Catherine Gray, Charlie Mansell, Elliot Colburn, Jayne McCoy, Jenny Batt, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Bobby Dean, Conservative, Council Tax, Jenny Batt, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Luke Taylor, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, SEND, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Tom Foster, Tory, Viridor
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Sutton firm puts SEND children to back of lessons queue
Loss-making council company prioritises profit-generating clients over legal responsibilities for the education of some of the borough’s most vulnerable children. By CARL SHILTON Parents of Sutton children with SEND have been lied to by their local council, as it has … Continue reading
Man behind failing SDEN’s plan is re-hired on £800 per day
EXCLUSIVE: LibDem-controlled council accused of ‘double dipping’ after it reveals it ‘won’ £310,000 grant to fund work on extending its misfiring heating network… even though that work has already been completed. CARL SHILTON, investigations editor, reports Last week, Sutton Council … Continue reading
Opposition renews call for full-scale fraud probe into SDEN
Independent review finds that the loss-making, council-owned district heating network has less of a business case, and is more of a basket case, reports CARL SHILTON Richard Simpson, the senior council official who helped unleash the £200million disaster that is … Continue reading
Posted in Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Catherine Gray, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Richard Simpson, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Viridor
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Sutton chiefs block opposition from seeing fraud report
Our Sutton investigations editor, CARL SHILTON, on the latest strokes being pulled by the LibDem-controlled council Tonight, there is a meeting of the Sutton Shareholdings Board, the committee that exercises the corporate shareholder and governance responsibilities of Sutton Council’s privately-held … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Neil Garratt, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Hackbridge, Helen Bailey, Jayne McCoy, Neil Garratt, New Mill Quarter, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, Sutton Council, Sutton Decentralised Energy Network, Tim Crowley, Viridor
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SDEN’s business plan ‘dishonest at best, fraudulent at worst’
Sutton’s LibDem council was last night forced to agree to an independent investigation into its failing heating company. CARL SHILTON reports Sutton Council’s controlling Liberal Democrats, after spending six years trying to deny that there was anything even vaguely suspicious … Continue reading
Appeal Court has Sutton in hot water over dodgy discount deal
BELLE MONT reports on the latest costly embarrassment for the LibDem council, caught withholding service discounts from social tenants Sutton could be liable to pay out millions of pounds in compensation to its council tenants after more than a decade … Continue reading
Posted in Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Catherine Gray, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, London, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
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Sutton Tories unanimous as they elect Drummond as leader
Our Sutton correspondent, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on the new leader of that council’s opposition group Tom Drummond is the new leader of the Conservative opposition on Sutton Council. Drummond succeeds Tim Crowley, who stood down on Friday after nearly seven years … Continue reading
Posted in Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond
Tagged Conservative, Liberal Democrats, London, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Drummond, Tory
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Crowley stands down as Tory opposition leader in Sutton
EXCLUSIVE: Our Sutton reporter CARL SHILTON on the latest leadership change in a south London borough All change! Tim Crowley today became the fourth leader of a Town Hall political group in south London in the past few weeks to … Continue reading
Sutton opposition leader ‘ashamed’ over Tories’ A-Level failure
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on a remarkable outburst over the government’s shambolic handling of this week’s exam results Tim Crowley, the leader of the opposition Tories on Sutton Council, has said that the shambolic handling of England’s A-Level results … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Schools, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged A-Levels, Gary Porter, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
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Davey, Pidgeon, Umunna all cave-in over Twitter smears
CARL SHILTON on how support for the Sutton and Cheam LibDem candidate’s nasty smear campaign started to evaporate, following challenges through formal complaints and threats of libel action It started yesterday, around noon time. The first of the offending social … Continue reading
Hina Bokhari: election candidate with past shrouded in mystery
CARL SHILTON checks out the credentials of the controversial Liberal Democrat candidate seeking to win Sutton and Cheam from the Conservatives Hina Bokhari, the Liberal Democrat General Election candidate for Sutton and Cheam who has been accused of libel during … Continue reading
Threats of libel action as Sutton election campaign turns nasty
EXCLUSIVE: Chuka Umunna, Jo Swinson, Caroline Lucas, even Bianca Jagger, have all taken at face value allegations made by a Liberal Democrat General Election candidate, and so now could now be dragged into a bitter legal action. Our Sutton investigations … Continue reading
Only five Croydon Tory councillors listed as ‘Backing Boris’
Croydon Town Hall’s Conservatives are not backing Boris. That’s according to a listing published today by the Boris Johnson leadership campaign which includes just five of Croydon’s 29 Tory councillors, from among 1,000 Conservative elected representatives at local authorities around … Continue reading
St Helier’s new boilers take steam out of Sutton’s heat network
CARL SHILTON, our Sutton investigations editor, discovers that the council’s troubled heating network scheme has suffered a massive blow – from St Helier Hospital Council leader Ruth Dombey’s plans for a lucrative “Phase 2” of the Sutton Decentralised Energy Network … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jayne McCoy, Planning, Ruth Dombey, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged Amanda Cherrington, Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, SDEN, St Helier Hospital, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory, Viridor
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LibDem at centre of cronyism row is handed £150,000 top job
BELLE MONT, our Sutton reporter, on how history appears to be repeating itself over the appointment of a chief exec for a Liberal Democrat council Ruth Dombey, the Liberal Democrat council leader in Sutton, yesterday helpfully confirmed Inside Sutton’s report … Continue reading
Posted in Helen Bailey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Charles Kennedy, Conservative, Helen Bailey, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
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