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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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Liberal Democrat candidate in home buying scandal
A Liberal Democrat council candidate in Lambeth has been exposed
for trying to buy a council property on the cheap, even though she didn’t
live in it. Council legal officers have confirmed that a candidate standing
in the key battleground of Vassall Ward, attempted to purchase a council
flat under “right to buy” legislation in May 2000.
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Save
Clapham Leisure Centre
Labour councillors have pledged to save Clapham Leisure Centre and make
sure Clapham keeps its swimming pool.
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Saturation zones for town centreas
Labour believes there is a need for a balance between the demands of revellers
and the protection of residents in Clapham and other busy night-life areas.
Late night disruption often prevents local families from sleeping at night
whilst some drinkers cause criminal damage to the local area.
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Clapham Leisure Services
More than one hundred residents attended a public meeting in Clapham on
Tuesday 21 March 2006 to attack Lib Dem and Tory plans to close local leisure
facilities.
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10
point plan for respect in Lambeth
The Home Secretary Charles Clarke and Lambeth Labour Opposition Leader Steve
Reed have co-signed a ten point action plan to improve community safety
in Lambeth. The plan gives specific pledges to deal with thugs, kerb crawlers
and drug tourists.
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Just the job!
A senior Government Minister visited Lambeth this Wednesday and gave his
strong support to Lambeth Labour Councillors’ plans to boost jobs
and the local economy. Gerry Sutcliffe MP, Minister for Employment Relations
and Consumer Affairs, gave his support whilst visiting the Waterloo Job
Shop, part of the South Bank Employers Group.
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388
kids without a school place
Lambeth’s Lib Dem controlled council has today admitted that 388 children
have not been offered a secondary school place this year. That means that
the council has failed to find a place for 16% of the children who have
reached secondary school age this year.
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Lambeth Labour launches manifesto
Labour Councillors in Lambeth have launched their manifesto for the 2006
local elections with the help of Cabinet Minister, David Miliband. Labour’s
manifesto, entitled “We’re on your side”, makes tackling
crime and anti-social behaviour Labour’s top priority should they
win back control of the council in May.
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Labour
councillor takes residents' tax worries to Cabinet Minister
Lambeth’s Lib Dem Council have been told by their own director of
Finance that their budget is "Not...prudent" and will lead to
a much higher tax rise next year.
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Lib Dems put council on the brink of bankruptcy
Lambeth’s Lib Dem Council have been told by their own director of
Finance that their budget is "Not...prudent" and will lead to
a much higher tax rise next year.
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Mayor demands urgent action
over voter registration
Ken Livingstone, the Mayor of London, has said he wants to see urgent action
to tackle the low level of voter registration in many of the London's boroughs.
His comments came after reports that Lambeth Council was not carrying out
a further round of door-step registration of electors, despite experiencing
low rates of voter registration.
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Ken:
“For a safer Lambeth we need a Labour council”
Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has called on voters in Lambeth to vote
Labour in the May local elections if they want a safer borough.
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Lib
Dem housing boss resigns over £3 million fraud
Disgraced Lib Dem housing boss Cllr Keith Fitchett has been forced out over
a massive fraud scandal. Fitchett was in charge when a fraudster stole £3
million from Lambeth Housing last July.
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Minister: "They should be
ashamed"
One of Britain's leading black politicians has condemned the decision by
Lib Dem controlled Lambeth to scrap plans to boost voter registration among
black and minority ethnic residents.
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Lambeth:
Fit for 2012!
Culture Minister Rt Hon.Tessa Jowell MP has given her backing to plans by
Lambeth’s Labour councillors to dramatically increase the amount of
sporting activities available to young people in the borough.
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Labour:
“Let’s name and shame”
Lambeth Labour’s Lead spokesperson against Crime has announced an
innovative new policy to stop kerb crawlers and drug tourists from visiting
the borough.
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Minister
condemns Lib Dem plan to give votes for prisoners
The Home Office Minister, Paul Goggins MP, today slammed Lambeth’s
Liberal Democrat councillors for their campaign to grant the vote to all
serving prisoners.
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Lib Dems: “Please protect us!”
Lambeth’s Liberal Democrat Councillors have demanded to
be guarded by council-contracted bouncers when they are outside the town
hall.
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Gordon Brown: "We must
put pensioners first"
Gordon Brown has praised Lambeth Labour councillors for their plans to help
elderly people living in Lambeth should they win control of Lambeth council
at the May elections.
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White
men only…
Why, in Britain’s most ethnically diverse borough, are all of the
Lib Dem town hall bosses white men?
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Labour
councillor takes residents' tax worries to Cabinet Minister
Councillor Mark Bennett has met Labour's Minister of Communities and Local
Government, the Rt Hon David Miliband MP, to voice residents' concerns about
the high level of council tax in Lambeth.
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Time
to give them a parking ticket
Lambeth residents sick of receiving unfair parking tickets now have the
chance to issue a few tickets of their own. Labour councillors thought that
it was high time the Lib Dems and Tories who run the council should get
a taste of their own medicine.
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Anti-litter cash could help
clean up Lambeth
Lambeth Labour Group today called for Lib Dem controlled council to apply
for new Government anti litter cash. London councils are being given the
chance to be part of a new national campaign to tackle litter and chewing
gum next year following the success of three Defra-backed campaigns.
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Who
runs Lambeth?
Most residents of Lambeth still think their council is run by Labour, despite
three and a half years of a Liberal Democrat-Tory coalition.
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Streatham's Labour councillors
welcome crackdown on sale of alcohol to underage drinkers
Streatham South Labour Councillors - Mark Bennett, John Kazantzis and David
Malley - are going out and about explaining new laws to all shopkeepers
who sell alcohol in south Streatham and Streatham Vale.
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Record
funding for Lambeth schools
Children in Lambeth will benefit from record funding levels for local schools,
the Government has announced.
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We want a Brix-stone!
Councillor Steve Reed is backing Brixton Hill residents who want to re-erect
Brixy's Stone - the ancient standing stone from which Brixton gets its name.
Historians believe that Brixy's Stone - named after a Saxon tribal chieftain
- once stood near the top of Brixton Hill..
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Fresh
Calls for Streatham Tram as Val presents petition
Valerie Shawcross, Labour London Assembly Member for Lambeth and Southwark
has renewed calls for an extension of the Croydon Tramlink to Streatham.
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Don’t
mention the appeals!
Residents receiving notification of a parking fine in the post might expect
some information on how to appeal to accompany their fine. After all, this
is accepted best practice for local authorities across the country. Not,
however, in Lib Dem controlled Lambeth.
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Liberal
Democrat fudge will hit Lambeth tenants
Liberal Democrat Housing boss Keith Fitchett was last night humiliated after
he was forced to hand over responsibility for running Lambeth’s housing.
The shady back room deal reflects the fact that Councillor Fitchett can
no longer be trusted to run the Housing Service following the discovery
of a £2.8 million fraud.
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How
did Lambeth Council lose £3 million?
Lambeth Labour Group has called a special Council meeting for 7.00pm on
Wednesday 23rd November to find out how the Liberal Democrat controlled
Council allowed the housing department to be defrauded of £3 million.
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Pressure
grows on Lib Dem housing boss
Lambeth’s Labour councillors are putting pressure on the ruling Liberal
Democrats to take responsibility for the £3 million fraud which has
hit the council. Labour has called a special council meeting to examine
how the massive fraud was allowed to take place.
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Lib
Dems in hot water, but none for tenants
The controversy surrounding Lambeth’s embattled Lib Dem Housing boss
has taken a new turn, after it emerged that many residents of a Lambeth
owned estate had been without hot water since the 17th September.
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Ken sees red over Brixton
Square
Ken Livingstone has weighed in with his support for the proposals to improve
Brixton Town centre this week.
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Council tax to increase following £11.8 million mistake
Lambeth council taxpayers are facing another hefty council tax bill following,
an £11.8 million mistake by Lambeth’s Liberal Democrat controlled
council.
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Labour
wins Streatham South by-election
Labour’s Mark Bennett has won the Streatham South by-election. Mark
campaigned on a positive action plan to sort out many problems that the
Lib Dem-run council has failed to tackle over recent years, including improvements
to roads and pavements, action on crime, and more investment in local schools.
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Lib
Dems admit housing fraud ‘lies’
Liberal Democrat councillors have been forced to admit they lied to the
public about how a £3 million fraud operation was discovered at Lambeth
council.
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Liberal Democrats cancel Brixton
Square project
Liberal Democrats running Lambeth council have cancelled the proposed redevelopment
of Brixton Square, turning down £8 million of investment from the
Mayor as part of his central squares initiative.
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Time
to come clean over fraud
Lambeth Liberal Democrat councillors have issued statements claiming the
Council’s own internal checks discovered the massive fraud. Labour
is demanding proof of this as there are concerns the Council’s anti-fraud
systems were not, in fact, working.
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Liberal
Democrats: “Who cares if we’ve lost £3million?”
The Liberal Democrat Leader of Lambeth Council has shrugged of the massive
£3M fraud scandal that engulfed the Council this week. Speaking on
BBC Radio, Lib Dem Cllr Peter Truesdale told a shocked BBC interviewer that
losing £3M was ‘”not so much money in the scheme of things”.
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Kennington Congestion Charge
Discount a Step Closer
London Assembly member Val Shawcross expressed delight today when Ken Livingstone
announced that he is seriously considering exempting a large area of Kennington
from paying the full congestion charge.
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Massive
fraud scandal rocks Lib Dems
Almost £3million has been stolen from Lambeth’s Lib Dem-Tory
run council following a massive example of internal fraud. Administrative
incompetence meant a Housing Department employee was able to arrange for
£2.8 million of council money paid to a company that he had set
up himself.
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