Tag Archives: Ruth Dombey

Council goes to court to fight Info Commissioner ruling

Posted on April 24, 2019 by

A business report into Sutton’s heat network scheme is being kept secret by the LibDem-controlled council. And now they’re spending more public cash on an appeal to keep the report under wraps, as CARL SHILTON reports Ruth Dombey, the leader … Continue reading →

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St Helier’s new boilers take steam out of Sutton’s heat network

Posted on April 19, 2019 by

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 →

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Luxury retirement flats face sky-high fuel bills thanks to Sutton

Posted on April 9, 2019 by

BELLE MONT reports on how the new tenants of 80 pricy retirement flats in Hackbridge are likely to get very heated over their energy bills A housing developer has been allowed to abandon an agreed scheme to build an old … Continue reading →

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‘Scout master’ Bazza gets elected, but fails to create a buzz

Posted on March 29, 2019 by

Our Sutton reporter, BERTIE WORCESTER-PARK, on a council by-election where all the political parties did poorly Sutton’s LibDems, and their candidate with a record of serial business failures, duly retained the Wallington North council seat in yesterday’s council by-election, but … Continue reading →

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Sutton LibDems feel pressure of Wallington independent’s day

Posted on March 20, 2019 by

Brexit Day is not the only unwelcome thing next week for Tom Brake, Ruth Dombey and their fellow Liberal Democrats, reports BELLE MONT A retired lecturer who for years faithfully delivered leaflets for local Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake could … Continue reading →

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By-election rivals say LibDem candidate unfit for public office

Posted on March 7, 2019 by

CARL SHILTON reports on the cross-party condemnations for a council by-election candidate who has overseen failed businesses that have left multi-million-pound debts Barry Lewis, the choice of Sutton’s Liberal Democrats to be parachuted in to Wallington North for the council … Continue reading →

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LibDem by-election candidate whose businesses left £9m debts

Posted on March 4, 2019 by

EXCLUSIVE: Campaigning in the Wallington North council by-election in Sutton is well underway, with the Liberal Democrats championing a candidate who has a recent record of business failures that have left his employees and the taxman hugely out of pocket. … Continue reading →

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