Apr 15
A meeting has been called to debate a £9m debt write-off after Labour run Stoke-on-Trent city council received a challenge from backbenchers in an attempt to block the huge financial loss. The meeting of the Business Services and Chief Executives Overview and Scrutiny Committee will be held on Monday, 22 April 2013 3.00 pm, and is open to …
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Mar 03
No-aligned councillor, Paul Breeze, has announced he will be standing for the Stoke-on-Trent City Independents at the next local elections to be held in 2015. The Birches Head and Central Forest Park councillor announced his intention at the full council budget meeting on Thursday night. At the council meeting he said: My intention is to stand as a non-party-political …
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Oct 16
A Labour councillor who signed a petition, along with two colleagues, against the closure of Norton Community Hall by his own party, was in a shouting match last night at the Labour Group meeting in a row on whether the Labour Party would support a call from the petitioners for a debate on the issue, …
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Oct 15
Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Audit Committee is to be revamped after a leading councillor said it was “not fit for purpose.” and that reports were being kept secret. Cllr Dave Conway, leader of the City Independents, had called for the changes after PotteriesEYE discovered how serious failures in council services, found by their own internal audits …
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Sep 29
A secret 2011 Stoke-on-Trent City Council internal audit report, obtained by PotteriesEYE, found that checks, monitoring and council policy was not being carried out the vast majority of the 384 purchase cards (council debit cards) held by council staff across the local authority whilst spending £5.2m over two years. The report was once again hidden from …
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Sep 20
Cash strapped Stoke-on-Trent City Council is to write off a further £7.5m of debt when its Cabinet meets next Thursday, doubling the amount it has written off in the last 2 years, taking the total to £16m. ¹In May earlier this year the Labour run council wrote off £3m and said it had put things …
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Oct 13
Soapbox: Hanley Regeneration – A Price Worth Paying?
News, Opinion
by PottEye
October 13, 2012
Regenerating Stoke-on-Trent after the demise of its hardcore industrial past has been the primary aim of our political leaders for over two decades now. It’s a never-ending work in progress. There has been some limited success most notably Trentham Lakes with its high-tech/ low man power logistic sprawl. However, it is becoming an increasingly desperate …
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