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Labour Lambeth have unveiled plans to spend more than £220k per year of council tax payers' cash on 'spin doctors' and support staff under proposals approved by their Leader.
The unprecedented wage bill includes £42,000 on a chief Alastair Campbell-style 'spin doctor', £99,000 on three deputies and £81,000 on PA, caseworker and receptionist...
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The Mayor's plans to merge Lambeth with suburban boroughs Kingston and Richmond as part of his planning Bible for London have been criticised by Conservative members of the London Assembly.
Although Mayor Livingstone claims it is only a technical change there are it could eventually be used to reintroduce plans for scrapping the existing boroughs...
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Labour Mayor Ken Livingstone has been slated for spending £90,000 of tax payers money to add just 361 voters to Lambeth Council's electoral register in the run-up to May's local elections - almost £30,000 MORE than first thought.
Livingstone originally pledged £60,000 to fund the election stunt, but now the true cost has been revealed...
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A Conservative councillor is calling on Lambeth Council to review its policy of charging the bereaved families of former tenants four week's rent AFTER THEIR RELATIVES HAVE DIED.
Ghoulish Town Hall bureacrats have been slammed after it was discovered they demand rent payments from DEAD tenants to swell council coffers....
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The Green Party is well known for recycling – that is to say recycling the achievements of other political parties (SLP, June 2nd). Lambeth Council has for the past four years mounted an all-out effort to bring empty privately-owned homes back into the housing stock. It is often a tortuous process involving detective work in tracing relatives of residents who have died without leaving a will. In some cases, compulsory purchase is the last resort when landlords simply refuse to take any action about empty homes...
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It's official - Lambeth became London's third cleanest borough for the first time under the Conservatives, according to an independent survey undertaken before May's local elections. Now Conservative councillors are calling on the new Labour Council to build on the progress made over the past four years or they'll show them how it's done...
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Labour Lambeth Council is threatening to axe state-of-the-art Redfearn Day Centre for teenagers with severe learning problems. It was opened only last year in a blaze of publicity with funding from the government's Private Finance Initiative.
"This is a disgraceful and under hand blow against some of our most vulnerable young people, their parents, and carers," says Cllr John Whelan...
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Lambeth's Conservative councillors are calling on Labour Lambeth to follow the example of Conservative-controlled London boroughs by making parking fairer for motorists.
In Camden clamping will be scrapped next month, while in neighbouring Westminster parking attendants have been told to be more lenient...
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Lambeth's Conservative Group will play a major role in Opposition on the new Labour-dominated Council at Brixton Town Hall. The Conservatives are fully supporting the civic mayoralty, having secured the nomination of new Gipsy Hill councillor Andrew Gibson as Deputy Mayor for the current municipal year.
Among the key positions agreed at the annual meeting of the Council...
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Thank you to everyone who voted Conservative in Lambeth's local elections on Thursday 4th May. Andrew Gibson, Suzanne Poole and Graham Pycock have been elected as new Conservative councillors in Gipsy Hill ward, joining Irene Kimm, Clare Whelan and John Whelan in Thurlow Park ward.
Elsewhere, Conservative candidates increased their vote in virtually every other ward in the borough, achieving swings against the Liberal Democrats and Labour...
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