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Belmont election shock #1: ‘I didn’t want to quit as councillor’
Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on a stunning admission which fuels speculation that some of the borough’s Tories were keen to find a way to get their deputy leader back on the council In a remarkable admission made to Inside … Continue reading
Posted in Neil Garratt, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Belmont, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Neil Garratt, Patrick McManus, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
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Transport report for £40m school ‘mysteriously’ disappears
Residents in Belmont go to the polls in a council by-election tomorrow, where Tory candidate Neil ‘Father Jack’ Garratt is expected to win. One factor could be the growing concerns over road safety around a new secondary school. Our Sutton … Continue reading
Carshalton’s studio theatre given new chance and fresh Hope
The Charles Cryer Theatre is to re-open with new operators after being ‘dark’ for more than two years. But Sutton Council still managed to mess up the announcement, as CARL SHILTON reports It has taken Sutton Council a little over … Continue reading
Arse! Feck! Drink! Belmont by-election’s own Father Jack
Sutton reporter BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK on how a Tory ex-councillor’s foul-mouthed tirades have come back to haunt him, just in time for a Halloween by-election The people of Belmont, one of the quieter, more refined suburbs of quiet and refined south … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Neil Garratt, Paul Scully MP, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Belmont, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Neil Garratt, Sutton, Sutton Council, Tory, UKIP
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Thanks for the bins and incinerator! ‘Ballistic’ Bolger is leaving
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the shock – and a tad premature – announcement that the council chief exec has quit their job So long, and thanks for all the bins. And the Viridor incinerator, of course. Niall Bolger, … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Outside Croydon, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator
Tagged #SuttonBinShame, Beddington Lane incinerator, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Veolia, Viridor
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Tory resigns council seat to cause by-election in Belmont
Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on an early chance to re-fight some of the arguments from the last local elections It is only four months since the Town Hall elections, but the voters of Belmont ward will now be expected … Continue reading
Independents’ Day in Beddington puts Dombey in the doldrums
Tony Newman is not the only south London council leader under increased pressure following the local elections. BELLE MONT delves into the detail of the results in Sutton, where the local LibDem leader used to boast that ‘independents don’t win … Continue reading
Posted in 2018 council elections, Hamish Pollock, Jayne McCoy, Jessica Crowe, Niall Bolger, Nick Mattey, Paul Burstow MP, Paul Scully MP, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Waste incinerator, Wendy Mathys
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory
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Snouts in the trough: how you pay for local election campaign
ELECTION COUNTDOWN: When deciding who to vote for this Thursday, consider carefully the money paid to councillors in ‘allowances’, reports BELLE MONT, our Sutton Council correspondent It’s the sort of question you could easily imagine one Sutton borough councillor asking … Continue reading
Sutton LibDems horrified by unreal McCoy’s car crash hustings
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
Posted in 2018 council elections, Environment, Jayne McCoy, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Beddington North, Carshalton, Conservative, Jayne McCoy, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Tim Crowley, Wallington
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Dombey and chums forced to climbdown over gerrymandering
Sutton’s LibDems have been caught out over attempts to hijack publicly funded council business for the benefit of their own party’s election prospects, as BELLE MONT reports Inside Croydon’s revelations this week that Sutton’s ruling Liberal Democrats were trying to … Continue reading
Posted in Charlie Mansell, Jessica Crowe, Niall Bolger, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Andy Cook, Charlie Mansell, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Ruth Dombey, Tim Crowley, Tory
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LibDems face new accusations of campaigning on the rates
Sutton reporter BELLE MONT says that council leader Ruth Dombey is in for some fierce questioning tonight as she is accused again of gerrymandering With local elections now less than 12 weeks away, the LibDems in Sutton appear to be … Continue reading
Local contractors hit as Viridor incinerator builders go bust
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the business collapse of the construction firm working on a £250m project at Beddington Lane The construction firm which has been leading on the £250million build of the Viridor incinerator at Beddington Lane has … Continue reading
#SuttonBinShame: Dombey accused of gerrymandering Veolia
A leaked email obtained by this website seems to show that Liberal Democrats have been abusing council resources in an attempt to get themselves out of the hole they have created with their rubbish Veolia service. Our Sutton investigations editor, … Continue reading
Dombey and Daughter: council questions over charity fraud
BELLE MONT, our Sutton correspondent, on the pressure mounting on another south London council leader It’s not just in Croydon where there have been calls for the council leader to resign. In Sutton, Ruth Dombey, who rules over that borough’s … Continue reading
Posted in Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Alan Salter, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory
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‘Serious questions’ for LibDems over £11m housing contract
The opposition leader on Sutton Council is seeking an urgent, independent inquiry into how a senior Liberal Democrat party official failed to declare an interest when on the board of the borough’s social housing partnership, as they awarded a multi-million-pound … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged John Drage, Niall Bolger, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Housing Partnership, Tim Crowley
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LibDem official causes scandal over undeclared donations
Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, finds that the former chair of Sutton’s ruling party, John Drage, forgot to declare an interest during a multi-million-pound public tendering process. And not for the first time The Liberal Democrats on Sutton Council accepted … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London-wide issues, Niall Bolger, Outside Croydon, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Elaine Drage, John Drage, Liberal Democrats, London, Niall Bolger, SHP, Smith & Byford, South London Waste Partnership, Sutton, Sutton Council, Sutton Housing Partnership
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Something smelling fishy about Sutton’s environmental record
Sutton’s growing reputation for being an environmental disaster area has just got even worse after allowing one of the area’s beauty spots, Carshalton Ponds, to be drained of water right in the middle of the waterfowl breeding season. The move … Continue reading
‘Bollinger’ Bolger accused of bullying Sutton councillor
The most senior official at Sutton Council has been accused of intimidation and bullying after instructing the borough’s lawyers to fire off a second threatening legal letter to an elected councillor in a matter of weeks. Niall Bolger, Sutton’s chief … Continue reading
More questions than answers as Mayor ducks burning issue
JONNY BROGDALE reports on an unsatisfactory exercise organised by City Hall that was more about justification than any real accountability The People’s Question Time session with London Mayor Sadiq Khan, staged in Carshalton on Thursday night, offered a couple of … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Jessica Crowe, London Assembly, London-wide issues, Mayor of London, Nick Mattey, Policing, Ruth Dombey, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Steve O'Connell, Sutton Council, TfL, Tim Crowley, Tramlink, Transport, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrats, London, London Assembly, Mayor, Mayor of London, Nick Mattey, Sadiq Khan, Sian Berry, Sutton Council, Tory, Viridor
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‘Veil of secrecy’ surrounds Barratt’s £150,000 pipe dream
Opposition councillors in Sutton are demanding an urgent meeting with the council chief executive after the authority’s planning committee last night granted permission for a pipe-laying scheme to a division of a company which is paying towards a council trip … Continue reading
LibDem councillor kept directorship secret for nearly 3 years
A Sutton councillor who for nearly three years failed to declare her directorship in a registered business has been let off with just a warning by her Liberal Democrat group leader, Ruth Dombey. Nighat Piracha is a LibDem councillor for … Continue reading
Posted in Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Conservative, LibDems, Liberal Democrats, Nighat Piracha, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council
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Commission finds Sutton elderly charity failed to report thefts
An investigation by the Charity Commission has found that Sutton Liberal Democrats may have been involved in preventing a prompt report to the police of serious concerns about the financial affairs of a local charity for the elderly. The Commission’s … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley
Tagged Alan Salter, Charity Commission, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Ruth Dombey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tory
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After £1m discount on lease, charity now wants council loan
A year after LibDem-controlled Sutton Council agreed to hand over a piece of public property at a generous £1 million discount to a charity of which LibDem MP Tom Brake is a trustee, and renovation work has yet to start … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Environment, Outside Croydon, Property, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP
Tagged Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP
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LibDem hearing to raise allegations over £1bn incinerator
Over in Sutton, local councillor Nick Mattey is about to face an expulsion hearing from the Liberal Democrats after he dared to oppose his council’s scheme for a £1 billion industrial-scale incinerator on Beddington Lane, close to the borough boundary … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon Council, Croydon Greens, Environment, Nick Mattey, Refuse collection, Shasha Khan, Stephen Fenwick, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Colin Drummond, Conservative, Croydon Council, John Drage, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tom Brake MP, Tory, UKIP, Viridor
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