Showing posts with label "Chicken Feed". Show all posts
Showing posts with label "Chicken Feed". Show all posts

Monday, May 19, 2014

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Pound Shop Wars, BBC David and Goliath, Peterborough, Photographs, Pound World

Pound Shop Wars, BBC David and Goliath, Peterborough, Photographs



It's good to see the owner of the above store is still fighting the battle.
I used to shop in this store when Im lived in Peterborough many years ago.
Along with the other pound store, next door the what was the Co-op Westgate
department store now Beales.






http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03vl6zz/Pound_Shop_Wars_Series_1_David_and_Goliath/




Friday, February 07, 2014

Rutland County Council BBC Inside Out Video & Other Links

Rutland County Council BBC Inside Out Video & Other Links

Rutland County Council is run by an overpaid Conservative Chief Executive Helen Briggs
Who Enjoys a very special relationship with the local police.


www.4rutland.com


Former Tory and Independent Councillors have joined  UKIP
are a regular piece of street furniture here in Oakham

Former Tory Military Nut and my councillor Gene Plews complains
the Council is led by a Dictatorship.



Rutland County Council has over the years been honoured by Private
Eye

 

Those Rotten Boroughs Awards in full
Municipal mischief, Issue 1357
RUTLAND COUNTY COUNCIL LEGAL BULLIES OF THE YEAR
Runners-up Scarborough borough council threatened to close down a website, Real Whitby, which had carried embarrassing stories about councillors. Chief legal officer Lisa Dixon demanded that “defamatory and untrue” material be removed. Real Whitby asked for examples, but Dixon could not provide any. WinnersRutland county council, which set aside £90,000 of taxpayers’ money to seek an injunction against three of its own councillors (the “Rutland Anti-Corruption Party”) who had been asking awkward questions. The council tested the water by prosecuting another critic, blogger Martin Brookes, for “harassing and stalking” chief exec Helen Briggs. District judge John Temperley found Brookes not guilty, declaring: “Freedom of expression is an essential function of a democratic society. It is applicable also to those who offend and shock.” A hero on the bench!


Wednesday, December 04, 2013

Cllr Alf Dewis, Oakham Town Councillor, £11,000 of Public Money, "Chicken Feed"



Cllr Alf Dewis, Oakham Town Councillor, £11,000 of Public Money, "Chicken Feed"



Cllr Alf Dewis is an example of the many things that are wrong
with Oakham Town Council.

He has no understanding of the value of money or is it because
it's just public money?