Lambeth News
The news stories affecting residents of Lambeth
Lambeth
Liberal Demorats exposed as being against large families
Lambeth’s Liberal Democrats have attacked large families’
right to secured tenancy. In a special meeting where Lib Dems attempted to halt
the refurbishment of a desperately needed family sized home.
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about family sized homes in Lambeth>>
Lambeth
Lib Dems play politics with peoples’ lives
Local Liberal Democrats have exposed themselves as hypocrites with
their behaviour at tonight’s meeting by playing politics with vulnerable
people..
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about Lambeth care services>>
Streatham
residents shun cold callers
Labour-run Lambeth have worked with the police to set up a 'No Cold
Calling Zone' in the area, in a bid to deter cold callers and cut door-step crime.
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about No Cold Calling Zones>>
New
Chair elected for Lambeth ALMO, Lambeth Living
Lambeth Living, the Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO) set
up by Lambeth Council to run its housing services, has elected a new Chair.
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about Lambeth Living>>
Lambeth
Labour invests £1 million in local play services
Lambeth's adventure playgrounds are set to benefit from a one million pound cash
boost following a government announcement.
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about play services in Lambeth>>
Labour
supports local community project with £1m funding
A flagship local community facility is celebrating the news that a bid for £1m
funding has been successful. The Streatham Darby and Joan club is one of the council's
key projects in the Communities First Programme.
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about Streatham Darby and Joan club>>
Labour
listens to Lambeth tenants
Labour-run Lambeth is moving to a new housing allocation system called Choice
Based Lettings.
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about choice based lettings>>
Bolney
Meadows estate transfer heralds a bright future for tenants
Residents living on the Bolney Meadows estate in Stockwell have opened the door
to a new beginning now that management of the estate has transferred to Presentation
housing association.
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about the estate transfer at Bolney Meadows>>
Labour
cracks down on illegal sales
Labour councillors are urging residents not to buy dodgy DVDs from street hawkers
who sell them in pubs and cafes.
Read
about the crack down on illegal sales>>
Sad loss of Councillor
Liz Atkinson
It is with sad regret that we announce that Liz Atkinson, former Mayor and ward
councillor, died on Thursday 24 January.
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about the loss of Councillor Liz Atkinson>>
The
future in children's fitness is here
Labour-run Lambeth has invested significantly in the Brixton Recreation Centre
in order to make it the flagship centre that Lambeth residents deserve. The centre
is now fully open and Labour Councillors are excited about the results and would
like to invite residents to see the facilities for themselves.
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about Brixton Recreation Centre>>
Labour
tackles anti-social behaviour
Labour-run Lambeth is tackling street drinking, noise offences, intimidation and
inappropriate sexual behaviour, following complaints from local people.
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about anti-social behaviour>>
Parking appeals
in Lambeth down as system becomes fairer due to Labour
The changes that Labour made to Lambeth’s parking contract have made the
parking enforcement system fairer according to new figures.
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about Lambeth parking>>
Labour
helps Council put forward solution to "nightmare" Herne Hill Junction
There has been a desperate need, for a number of years, to solve the problem of
serious traffic congestion around the extremely busy Herne hill junction, which
is unsafe, causes long delays for commuters and has a serious impact on local
businesses and residents.
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about Herne Hill Junction>>
Campaign
for vulnerable adults to access more cash
Labour-run Lambeth has introduced a new campaign to maximise the income of thousands
of the borough's most vulnerable residents.
Read
about supporting vulnerable adults>>
Labour
makes Life easier for families in Stockwell
Life is about to get easier for children and families in Stockwell, with the opening
of a new Children's Centre offering a wide range of services under one roof.
Read
about Children's Centre in Stockwell>>
First ever Youth
Mayor for Lambeth supported by Labour
In efforts to gain access to the concerns of young people in Lambeth, Labour Councillors
are getting set to have an election for the council’s first ever Youth Mayor
and U.K. Youth Parliament Representative.
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about youth Mayor for Lambeth>>
Lambeth encourages
local businesses to 'set-up shop' locally
In a bid to encourage businesses to 'set up shop' in Lambeth, the Council has
moved up a gear to ensure that the best support and training opportunities are
available for local entrepreneurs and residents.
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about local business initiative in Lambeth>>
Gangs project
on shortlist for Guardian awards
A Lambeth project that provides an alternative route for young people at risk
of involvement with gangs has been shortlisted for a prestigious Guardian Public
Service Award.
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about Guardian public service award>>
Labour run Council
to publicise details of drug tourists
'Drug tourists' who come to Brixton from outside the borough to buy their drugs
could find their face splashed on a prominent poster in the town centre under
an innovative new policy.
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about drug tourists in Lambeth>>
Lambeth triumphs
in London in Bloom awards
Lambeth's Supporting People team has been awarded Regional Champion status by
the Department for Communities & Local Government (CLG).
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about London in Bloom awards>>
Ethelred Estate
to get £16.6m refit
Lambeth's Supporting People team has been awarded Regional Champion status by
the Department for Communities & Local Government (CLG).
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about Ethelred Estate>>
Labour
earns Champion status for Lambeth's Supporting People
Lambeth's Supporting People team has been awarded Regional Champion status by
the Department for Communities & Local Government (CLG).
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about Lambeth's supporting people>>
Pack more
into your recycling
In previous years, Liberal Democrats wasted council money through inefficiency,
purchasing of luxury offices and allowing themselves to be defrauded by their
own employees.
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about more recycling in Lambeth>>
Labour
Celebrates Age in Lambeth
Celebrating Age, a month long festival for older people in Lambeth, takes place
throughout October.
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about Labour celebrative age in Lambeth>>
Residents back the
ALMO
Labour’s commitment to ensuring all council homes are up to a decent standard
and Lambeth Council's housing service is improved is on track following the end
of July’s ballot.
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about residents backing the ALMO>>
Labour's new cabinet
member to challenge stereotypes surrounding young people
Labour's new deputy cabinet member for children and young people is no stranger
to the issues facing young people in the area, with her meteoric rise having begun
in the borough's primary and secondary schools.
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about Labour's new cabinet member>>
Brockwell
Lido reopens
Brockwell Lido will be throwing open its doors on 2 July to welcome swimmers,
dippers and bathers once more, when the pool reopens seven days a week for the
summer season.
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about Brockwell Lido>>
Brixton Rec reopening
The Rec will be open from 9 July onwards between the hours of 9am-5pm seven days
a week with the swimming pools and crèche on offer to be used by visitors.
Read
about Brixton Recreation Centre reopening>>
Labour find
extra money for older people’s services
After listening to the views of thousands of residents, Labour has found a solution
to save its services for older people in the face of nationally escalating costs
of care.
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about older people's services>>
Gordon Brown
is good news for Lambeth!
Gordon Brown has taken over as Prime Minister – and that’s good news
for Lambeth! The new Prime Minister was in Lambeth a few days before taking over
as premier.
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about Gordon Prime Minister Brown and Lambeth>>
Council leader
criticises minister over housing claims
The Leader of Lambeth Council, Steve Reed, has backed Ken Livingstone's call for
a Government minister to face the facts on council housing.
Read
about council leaders views on housing claims>>
Come see Brixton
Square Plans
The council is taking part in the Social Homebuy scheme which provides new opportunities
for tenants who cannot afford to buy their property. It enables tenants on a limited
income to buy a share - as little as 25 per cent - of their home.
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about Brixton Square plans>>
Getting on
the housing ladder
The council is taking part in the Social Homebuy scheme which provides new opportunities
for tenants who cannot afford to buy their property. It enables tenants on a limited
income to buy a share - as little as 25 per cent - of their home.
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about Lambeth Social Homebuy scheme>>
Labour says: "Let
tenants decide!"
Labour's Cabinet member for Housing Cllr John Kazantzis has announced that residents
will take the final decision on a multi-million pound investment plan for Lambeth's
council homes in a borough-wide ballot. .
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about Lambeth Housing investment plan>>
Another new low
for Lambeth Liberal Democrats
Leaked documents from Lambeth Council have dealt a further crippling blow to the
financial reputation of Lambeth’s Tories and Lib Dems.
Read
about Lambeth Liberal Democrats>>
Investment will
make Brixton Rec the premier sports centre for young people in London
An alternative budget put forward by Lambeth Lambeth’s Liberal Democrat
Councillors was declared virtually illegal by council officers.
Read
about Brixton Recreation Centre>>
Lambeth
Liberal Democrats: out of touch and cost you more
An alternative budget put forward by Lambeth Lambeth’s Liberal Democrat
Councillors was declared virtually illegal by council officers.
Read
about Lib Dems 'budget'>>
Official: Liberal
Democrats failed Lambeth
Lambeth was the worst Council in Britain under Liberal Democrat and Conservative
rule. We always knew it, but now it’s official.
Read
about Lib Dems failure>>
Lambeth Liberal
Democrats back kerb crawling
The Leader of Lambeth’s Liberal Democrats has called for the decriminalisation
of kerb crawling.
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about Lib Dems backing kerb crawling>>
Ban
street drinking in Stockwell
A campaign from Stockwell's Labour Councillors to get street drinking banned around
Stockwell Tube is bearing fruit.
Read
about Stockwell councillors campaign for No Street Drinking Zone>>
Time to target
poverty in Lambeth
Lambeth’s Labour Councillors are proposing to invest in a welfare rights
take-up campaign, focusing on low income groups.
Read
about Labour campaign to encourage people to take up benefits>>
Name
and shame thugs
Lambeth’s Labour Council will name and shame thugs and vandals who make
the lives of law abiding residents hell.
Read
about Lambeth naming and shaming thugs and vandals>>
Lambeth
Liberal Democrats oppose police over extra officers
Liberal Democrat councillors in Lambeth are on a collision course with local police.
They are opposing 21 extra officers for the borough’s police teams.
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about Lambeth Liberal Democrats opposing extra police>>
Make a choice
and take control
A new centre offering support to women who have experienced or are experiencing
domestic violence in Lambeth has opened.
Read
about Lambeth Gaia Centre>>
Council tax
kept low as Labour gets tough on crime
Labour’s put tackling crime top of the agenda in the first budget since
last May’s council elections.
Read
about new Labour getting tough on crime>>
Power
to the people!
Local people are set to have a big say in their local area - thanks to changes
proposed by Labour. The Council is asking residents for their views on setting
up a public forum in each of the Borough’s town centres.
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about new town centre forums>>
Safety comes
first as Labour boosts police teams
Lambeth is to get another 21 new officers working as part of the local Safer Neighbourhood
Police Teams, thanks to Labour. The Labour-run Council is scrapping the weak and
powerless Council Wardens scheme introduced by the Lib Dems while they were running
the Council.
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about Lambeth safer neighbourhood police teams>>
Labour
Council finds Lambeth’s missing voters
Voter registration rates in Lambeth have soared 8% in a year to just under 79%.
Under Tory-Lib Dem control, the Borough had one of the lowest voter registration
rates in London at just 71%.
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about Lambeth voter registration>>
Lambeth
Liberal Democrats oppose plan for better homes
Lambeth’s Lib Dems are trying to block over £200 million new money
for better council homes. After four years of Tory and Lib Dem rule in the borough,
up to 10,000 homes are officially deemed to be sub-standard.
Read
about Lambeth Liberal Democrats opposing better homes>>
Lambeth sees
3rd biggest crime fall in London
New crime figures show crime in Lambeth is falling faster than all other south
London boroughs and has seen the 3rd biggest fall in London.
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about crime fall in Lambeth>>
Lambeth council
targets benefit cheats
Lambeth Council is launching a major new campaign against benefit cheats. Hard-hitting
posters will tell residents that benefit fraud nationally amounts to stealing
£80 from every household in the country.
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about Benefit cheats>>
Brixton Recreation
Centre saved
Labour has scrapped Lib Dem plans to tear down Brixton Recreation Centre. Lib
Dem councillors planned to sell off the land to private developers.
Read
about Brixton Rec>>
“Let’s
talk” says Gordon Brown!
Gordon Brown came to Lambeth to listen to the concerns of ordinary people. The
Chancellor of the Exchequer took part in a ‘Let’s Talk’ event
at the town hall in Brixton.
Read
about Gordon Brown's visit>>
Lambeth’s
Tories and Lib Dems exposed
No wonder Lambeth’s voters kicked the Tories and Lib Dems out as soon as
they had the chance. In 2006 residents backed Labour by a landslide as the Lib
Dems faced meltdown across the Borough.
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about Lambeth Tories and Lib Dems>>
Lambeth
Labour welcomes bar rethink
Labour has welcomed a bar owner’s decision to change the name of the Bang
Bang bar, after it created outrage for trivialising gun violence.
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about Brixton bar changing name>>
Lambeth
Labour leader launches online diary
Residents have welcomed Labour’s tough response to the recent shooting in
Brixton’s McDonald’s restaurant.
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about online diary>>
Safety fears
after McDonald’s shooting
Residents have welcomed Labour’s tough response to the recent shooting in
Brixton’s McDonald’s restaurant.
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about McDonald's shooting>>
Lambeth Labour
slams bar for glorifying guns
Following the recent shootings of two young men in McDonald’s in Brixton,
a leaflet distributed by a new bar called "Bang Bang" has caused widespread
offence.
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about bar glorifying guns>>
Lambeth Labour
crackdown on benefit cheats
Vauxhall resident Patrick Crawford has been jailed for six months after cheating
the public of £11,200 in a housing and council-tax benefit scam.
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about crackdown on benefit cheats>>
Lambeth Lib
Dems block new school
Parents are outraged by the latest Lib Dem attempt to delay a desperately-needed
new school from opening.
Read
about Lambeth Lib Dems blocking school>>
Lambeth supports
Graffiti Awareness Week
Council staff will be joined by young offenders to blitz graffiti as part of a
programme of activity to mark Graffiti Awareness Week.
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about graffiti awareness week>>
Labour scraps
Lib Dem parking profit incentives
Labour has ripped up the unfair Lib Dem and Tory parking rules which saw fines
handed out to thousands of completely innocent motorists.
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about the scrapping of Lib Dem parking incentives>>
I'm a
councillor get me out of here!
Six Lambeth councillors are inviting local school students to decide who should
be ”evicted” from a new website, with the last remaining councillor
dubbed the ”winner”.
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from this stroy>>
Four months
jail sentence for benefit fraudster
Shaun South of 52 Shakespeare Road London SE24 has been sentenced to 4 months
imprisonment after being found guilty of obtaining £13,860 of housing benefit
by deception.
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about the jail sentence for benefit fraudster>>
Labour set
to launch big clean-up
Targeted areas in Lambeth are set to get a clean-up as part of a large operation
by Lambeth Council and other organisations.
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about launch of big clean-up>>
Labour cracks
down on underage drinking
An off-licence has had its alcohol licence revoked after it sold alcopops to a
12-year-old boy. Gogis's Off-Licence in Wandsworth Road, SW8, sold alcohol to
underage children three times. The operations were part of an ongoing campaign
by Labour to tackle underage drinking and the problems that it causes.
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Major show
set to beautify Brixton
Lambeth Council is partnering with major players in the hair, beauty and fashion
industry to deliver a high profile showcase for both businesses and consumers
on 5 November, 2006 at Lambeth Town Hall and in surrounding venues.
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Labour saves
community site
Local people are flocking to the old Lilian Baylis School site in Kennington,
which has been transformed into a much needed centre for community and sports
activities.
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>>
Get
to know your Labour councillor a little better…
Would you just like to find out a little bit more about
the people elected to serve you in Lambeth? Well now you have the chance to find
out. Labour councillors have been subjected to a rigorous interview which are
now available here.
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>>
Lambeth tenants
back Labour investment plan
Residents of five estates in Lambeth have given the thumbs up for a landmark move
that will mean an extra £27million investment in their homes.
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>>
New
school hope for local kids
Labour Councillors have delivered on another of their manifesto pledges by commissioning
a feasibility study for a third Secondary School in Brixton.
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The people’s plan
On July 31st Labour Councillors will launch their
timetable for delivering their manifesto commitments over the next four years.
After just twelve weeks in charge Labour have managed to pull together all their
plans to improve Lambeth into a complete timetable. The previous Lib Dem and Tory
regime took over twelve months to agree their first ‘Recovery Plan’
and even then it mapped out a programme for only one year!
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Seven more steps towards
a better Lambeth
This week Labour councillors approved seven more
major projects that will make a huge contribution to regenerating Lambeth, making
it a fairer and safer place to live.
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>>
Lambeth Labour
gets in gear for fairer parking
In the week when the Government announced tough new
measures to overhaul parking enforcement, Lambeth’s Labour Council is already
ahead of the game. The Government's initiative is in response to the way councils
such the former Lib Dem / Tory regime in Lambeth which abused parking to extort
money off innocent motorists.
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>>
Labour’s
domestic violence action plan
An action plan to tackle tackle domestic violence
in Lambeth has been introduced by Labour Councillors. This will include extra
support for those experiencing domestic violence.
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>>
Cabinet Minister hails
“life transforming ” project
Cabinet Minister Valerie Amos today visited Lambeth’s
“409 Project” and hailed it a life transforming operation. The project,
which gives support and job training to young people at risk of committing criminal
offences, has been a huge success, boasting an 88% non re-offending rate.
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>>
Transport Commissioner
makes Labour Lambeth his first stop
Peter Hendy, in his new role as transport commissioner,
met with the Labour Leader of the council Steve Reed to discuss a range of transport
issues affecting the borough, including Brixton Central Square, the possible extension
of the Croydon tram into Streatham, the redevelopment of Herne Hill junction and
a possible night bus along Streatham Vale.
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>>
Labour: Delivering
for Lambeth
Just two months after Labour was selected to run Lambeth council the results are
starting to show with real improvements for the people of the borough. A number
of promises were made during the election campaign which Labour Councillors are
eager to deliver. They fought their election on the slogan “We’re
on your side” and they are busy proving that this was not just talk.
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>>
Lambeth Housing: the
truth
The full extent of the crisis created by Lambeth’s former Lib Dem and Tory
Housing bosses has been revealed in a briefing to the new Administration. The
scale of the mismanagement is truly staggering.
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>>
Lambeth: flying the
flag for England
Lambeth’s Labour Council will proudly fly the England flag above the Town
Hall for as long as the national team remain in the World Cup. The council has
decided it is time to show its support for our world cup heroes when there are
so many cars, homes and businesses flying the flag for Sven and his boys.
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>>
Labour ends
Lib Dem sell-off
In his first act as Lambeth’s new Housing chief John Kazantzis has ended
the sell-off of council owned street properties started by his Lib Dem predecessors.
Over the period of their four years in power the Liberal Democrats sold off dozens
of family sized properties owned by the council. The former Lib Dem councillor
in charge of housing even bid for one at auction himself.
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>>
Labour freezes
councillor allowances
Labour have frozen councillors’ pay despite Liberal Democrat demands for
their own allowances to be hiked up immediately. Labour Councillors have commissioned
a review of councillors community engagement role in order to come to an informed
decision on how much they should be paid.
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>>
The price of Lib Dem
“scorched earth”policy
Liberal Democrat Councillors have left Lambeth Council in Financial dire straits
as a result of their “scorched earth” approach to the council’s
budget over the past year. Council officers have revealed the full extent of the
crisis the Lib Dems left the council in to new Finance boss, Labour’s Jim
Dickson.
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"Mr 38%"
elected as Lib Dem Leader
Lambeth’s disastrous four-year Tory-Liberal experiment has come to an end.
On Thursday 4 May, residents across Lambeth voted for a Labour council to tackle
crime, build new schools, and stop the fraud and waste that marked the Tory-Liberal
years.
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>>
Labour
wins Lambeth
Lambeth’s disastrous four-year Tory-Liberal experiment has come to an end.
On Thursday 4 May, residents across Lambeth voted for a Labour council to tackle
crime, build new schools, and stop the fraud and waste that marked the Tory-Liberal
years.
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