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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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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
‘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
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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Sutton committee needs to read Inside Croydon, says top Tory
The Tory leader of the opposition on Sutton Council has called for the postponement of tonight’s Standards Committee discussion on the Beddington incinerator, to enable the committee members to consider the latest reports publish today by Inside Croydon. With the … Continue reading
Secretive incinerator scheme is a bad deal, say Sutton Tories
There are other Sutton LibDem councillors who, like Nick Mattey, believe that there are serious flaws in the secretive £1 billion scheme to build an industrial incinerator at Beddington Lane, according to Tim Crowley, the leader of the opposition Conservative … Continue reading
Posted in 2015 General Election, Environment, London-wide issues, Nick Mattey, Planning, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake MP, Waste incinerator
Tagged Beddington Lane incinerator, Boris Johnson, Conservative, Liberal Democrats, Nick Mattey, Sutton Council, Tim Crowley, Tom Brake, Tory
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