Monthly Archive: March 2010

Yesterday councillors meeting as the Audit Committee on Stoke-on-Trent City Council were once again angry and disappointed as the District Auditor failed to present his report first requested, unbelievably in October 2008, on the sale of the shares in the Britannia Stadium by the City Council. The internal audit report left large gaps in the …

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Over the last couple of years I have received mountains of emails and information regarding the organisation Common Purpose. I have tried to maintain a healthy scepticism with regards to some of the more serious and outlandish claims, although I have attempted to research the organisation and its links and influence within Stoke-on-Trent. This has …

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Well done Gary Elsby, Barry Stockley and Mick Williams for finally taking a stand in that they are taking legal action against their treatment by the local Labour Party. I only wish I had done so when I could, and should have done. Needless to say, any assistance I can give, I will gladly do …

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Big question marks now hang over the future of the NSRP, its board and its management as the “Strategic Partnership”, the anchor tenant in the proposed business quarter, falls apart. It has now been revealed that a report by Tribal was commissioned at the cost of £200,000 into the feasibility of a strategic partnership which …

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