Sep 04
PotteriesEYE investigated and broke the story of £26,000 being spent on free coffee and tea for senior councillors and senior officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council. The Sentinel reports it today, as an aside, thanks Sentinel for giving credit to us community volunteers so that you can make money out of the news we researched and …
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Aug 30
Political Parties in Labour run Stoke-on-Trent are being treated to freebie meeting rooms at the expense of the taxpayers PotterieEYE has learned, through a question by one of our writers who put a question to next week’s full council meeting. Mohammed Pervez’s Labour Party councillors had 13 freebie meetings in the 2011/12 financial year which …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.potteye.co.uk/carry-on-freebies-2-political-party-meetings-at-taxpayers-expense/
Aug 17
Residents across Stoke-on-Trent are having their bins left unemptied over night in a dispute regarding overtime PotteriesEYE can exclusively reveal. Refuse crews have been telling members of the public that there “is a work to rule”. When contacted by PotteriesEYE, Colin Griffiths of the Stafford Office of the GMB trade union completely rejected that there …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.potteye.co.uk/exclusive-stoke-on-trent-bins-left-in-overtime-dispute/
Aug 01
OPINION: Mike Barnes This week I have received a copy of the latest taxpayer-funded Labour council magazine entitled “Our City”: a glossy, full colour publication. Incidentally, none of my neighbours seem to get one delivered, but I still get one through the post erroneously sent to Cllr Mike Barnes (lucky me) even though I haven’t been …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.potteye.co.uk/our-city-magazine-labour-propoganda-at-council-tax-expense/
Jul 25
Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s debt has soared for every man, woman and child in the City as it reaches £1684.22 EACH, an investigation by PotteriesEYE has uncovered. (based on the latest census figures of 249,000) The total borrowing for the City Council, at the end of the last financial year stood at: £419,371,000 (including PFI) …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.potteye.co.uk/stoke-on-trent-city-council-debt-soars-to-1684-for-every-man-woman-and-child-in-city/
Jul 16
A petition has been launched by campaigners against Labour run Stoke-on-Trent City Council proposals to move its Civic Centre headquarters to a new building in Hanley at a cost of £59m or £521 per household in the City. Campaigners fear the move with decimate Stoke upon Trent town centre and that the cost of the …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.potteye.co.uk/petition-launched-against-new-59m-civic-centre/
Jul 14
Councils across the UK appear to struggling with the coalition government’s timescales for welfare reform including those for council tax, the social fund and the new universal credit. A report of the Acting Director of Business Services, Steve Sankey, to go to the Business Services and Chief Executives Overview and Scrutiny Committee next Thursday, at Stoke-on-Trent City Council …
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