Tag Archives: Bobby Dean MP

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

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Sutton budget passes with £34.5m deficits to come by 2029

CIVIC CENTRE SKETCH: Sutton’s annual budget meeting proved to be just a subtext for a pre-election psycho-drama being played out behind closed doors by the ruling LibDems. BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK was there, ready for any guillotine motions During the Reign of … Continue reading

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Moonlighting MPs spend their time helping out Basher Lewis

INSIDE SUTTON: The conflicting demands of being constituency MPs and ward councillors are beginning to take a toll, reports ROSE HILL Residents in Sutton are beginning to ask whether the borough’s two recently elected MPs are serving the public interest, … Continue reading

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Reports of another fuel spill into River Wandle chalk stream

Further concerns are being raised about an ‘environmental disaster’, with criticisms of the government agency’s failed clean-up of spill from February being compounded by more pollution on the river this week For the second time in just a few weeks, … Continue reading

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Groups join MP’s call for big fines for River Wandle polluters

An MP has been joined by an organisation representing 150 voluntary groups and a rivers charity in calling for punitive “polluter pays” fines for whoever was responsible for this week’s massively damaging diesel spillage into the River Wandle. Bobby Dean, … Continue reading

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‘Environmental disaster’ on Wandle after diesel spills into river

A Sutton MP has called the latest pollution spill into the River Wandle an “environmental disaster”, after an estimated 4,000 litres of diesel was released into the rare chalk stream yesterday. Officials from Merton Council, crews from the London Fire … Continue reading

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St Helier facing ‘catastrophic failure’ as hospital plans delayed

INSIDE SUTTON: Yesterday’s announcement by Labour health secretary Wes Streeting that the promised new hospital at Belmont will be delayed by at least another seven years drew dire warnings from health professionals, reports DAVE BURTON “We’re going to have to … Continue reading

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Council has £1m loan in the pipeline for heating no one needs

At a committee meeting tonight in Sutton, councillors will be asked to approve a £1m loan for the discredited council-owned heat network, SDEN. But questions are being asked about the viability of the plans, while residents are kept in the … Continue reading

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‘Doctors say only a new hospital is the answer’ for St Helier

SUTTON COMMENTARY: Shocking scenes shown by BBC News this week should be a wake-up call for government and the NHS to revive previously approved plans for a state-of-the-art new hospital, writes DAVE BURTON The problems facing St Helier Hospital, as … Continue reading

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Now ‘Basher’ Lewis knocks out debate on polluting incinerator

The Viridor waste incinerator at Beddington Lane has broken the terms of its operating licence 60 times. But Sutton’s LibDems refuse to discuss the matter, as BERTIE WOOSTER-PARK reports Barry “Basher” Lewis, the leader of Liberal Democrat-run Sutton, this week … Continue reading

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River Wandle hit by another sewage leak from Thames Water

‘Keep out of the water – it might be toxic’. That’s the official advice about two south London rivers this week, while utility companies continue to pollute our waterways, reports PAUL LUSHION, environment correspondent Steve Reed OBE, in his new … Continue reading

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As Robotic Reeves ‘pauses’ hospital builds, St Helier crumbles

Our Sutton reporter, BELLE MONT, on the latest, devastating setback to NHS provision in this part of London Less than a month since being elected with a historically large majority, the recriminations are beginning to be heard around Keir Starmer … Continue reading

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Tory Colburn’s fate as Carshalton MP was sealed long ago

BELLE MONT, InsideSutton’s political editor, on how time finally ran out for the Tories in the General Election campaign in Carshalton and Wallington When the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats both moved most of their campaign resources into Sutton and Cheam … Continue reading

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