Stoke-on-Trent City Council is still defying the governments instructions on local councils having to release information about the salaries of senior staff nine months after the deadline to do so and over twelve months after the government diktat. Despite commitments from Stoke-on-Trent Chief Executive, Mr John van der Laarschot, one of the most highly paid council …
Monthly Archive: September 2011
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Sep 28
Government Takes Action to Protect Community and Voluntary Groups From Council Cuts
Communities Secretary Eric Pickles has published guidance to local authorities on how to protect voluntary and community groups from disproportionate cuts to their funding. It follows warnings from Mr Pickles that councils should not “pull up the drawbridge” in this tough economic climate, but should instead look to give greater support for local groups that …
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Sep 26
Exclusive: Chaudry “Settlement” Details Begin to Emerge
A very reliable and inside source has revealed to me some of the details of the settlement deal between Mr Chaudry and the City Council so hotly debated at the moment. My source reveals that Mr Chaudry accepted a “contribution” towards his legal fees but received no compensation for any alleged contracts or deals brokered …
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Sep 26
Exclusive: Labour Respond to Dimensions Questions
Senior Labour Councillor and Chair of the Business and CEO Overview and Scrutiny Committee, Cllr Andrew Lilley, elected less than six months ago, and former council employee, has today responded in a shocking rant to an article on this site posing the same questions everybody else is posing at the moment over the Chaudry – Council secret …
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Sep 26
A Regeneration Contradiction
For most of my time in politics, just over 15 years, I have been heavily involved in regeneration and in planning. I have been to many different places in this country and abroad, and just like the potter who turns over the hotel cups to see where they were made, I instinctively and constantly assessed …
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Sep 25
Personally Speaking: Is This Finally the End For Pervez & Meredith?
Potteye Personally Speaking Will the Dimensions Splash Pool fiasco finally be the beginning of the end for Pervez and Meredith? The long on-going saga of the proposed closure of Dimensions back in 2007/8 and questions over Pervez and Meredith’s personal involvement along with accusation of secret deals being done, took a new twist at the …
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