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Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Cllr Adam Lowe bullied and Misled Oakham Town Council members into paying unlawful £68,830.80 payment made to a contractor.
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
Conservative Councillor Leigh Higgins, deputy leader of Melton Borough Council suspended for comments in a speech he made at the Best of Melton Awards were considered to be of a sexist nature by some.
Conservative Councillor Leigh Higgins, deputy leader of Melton Borough Council suspended for comments in a speech he made at the Best of Melton Awards were considered to be of a sexist nature by some.
After comments started to appear online like this one:
'Debbie Longley
Lovely evening at Best of Melton Awards.
However, if you want confirmation that some people still live in the Dark Ages; COUNCILLOR Leigh Higgins just asked all the ladies to stand up so we could be seen as it’s been a long time since we’ve been able to ‘enjoy’ those kinds of sights!!! (Needless to say I didn’t stand up)
It’s a business and community event you absolute sexist, chauvinistic tool. Plus, I am not there to be ogled by anyone! He also told us how he nearly lost his multi million pound business and had to go on to JSA, and that some other millionaires had to have food parcels. My heart bleeds.
P.S Congratulations to all the winners and finalists.'
This does not surprise me, he was taught by the best old Melton Tory farts back in 2015, you only have to look at @meltonblue who can say anything they like and offend anyone they like to understand this. Its a shame really he has turned into one of them.
Friday, April 09, 2021
Cancer Research UK Market Place Oakham Rutland for far to many years this charity shop has made our market place look like a dump.
Cancer Research UK Market Place Oakham Rutland for far to many years this charity shop has made our market place look like a dump.
I often wonder why people here in Oakham are so anti charity shops, then I thought about it. Each time I walk through the market place I notice how it is blighted by Cancer Research. If it is not being used as a dump for residents rubbish, its their own weekly mountain of rubbish dumped outside the shop. I often look at what they throw out and think what a waste. Yesterday I notice a large bag full of brown paper bags still sealed in original packaging, along with many other bags containing many new items. used to run the shop, I personal nominate Cancer Research as the most disgraceful and wasteful charity shop here in Oakham. Cancer research appears to have far too much money. I and others remember when they wasted over £20,000 refurbishing this shop in 2013 and opening it for a very short period of time as a boutique style charity shop before reverting it back to a normal charity shop. £20,000, Just a little more than they pay each of their store managers. There are plenty of other business's in the Market Place that include the selling of food and drink, they don't dump in the market place.
Monday, March 22, 2021
Housing Infrastructure Fund St George's Barracks Rutland County Council Already Listed on Government Website as a Successful Forward Funding projects before Council decision is made
Housing Infrastructure Fund St George's Barracks Rutland County Council Already Listed on Government Website as a Successful Forward Funding projects before Council decision is made this evening?
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/housing-infrastructure-fund
Successful Forward Funding projects
Local authority Project HIF funding (£million)
Buckinghamshire Aylesbury Garden Town Growth Enabling Infrastructure Programme £172.3m
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Northern Fringe East £227m
Central Bedfordshire Transformational Growth in Biggleswade £69.6m
Cheshire East North Cheshire Garden Village £21.7m
Cornwall Truro Growth Area - Northern Access Road £47.5m
Cornwall Hayle Junctions Infrastructure Project £12.9m
Cumbria Carlisle Southern Link Road £134m
Devon South West Exeter £55.1m
Essex Beaulieu Station and North East Bypass £218m
Essex Tendring Colchester Borders Garden Community £99.9m
GLA Docklands Light Railway - growth capacity £290.7m
GLA Meridian Water Infrastructure £170m
GLA East London line - growth capacity £80.8m
Gloucestershire M5 Junction 10 Improvements Scheme £219.8m
Greater Manchester Combined Authority Manchester Northern Gateway Urban Growth Programme £51.6m
Kent Swale Transport Infrastructure £38.1m
Lancashire South Lancaster Growth Catalyst £140m
Leicestershire Melton Mowbray Southern Distributor Road £14.7m
Medway New Routes to Good Growth £170m
Milton Keynes Milton Keynes East Sustainable Urban Extension £94.6m
North East Combined Authority South Sunderland Growth Area Cluster £25.4m
North Somerset West of England: Enabling Infrastructure for M5-A38 Strategic Development Locations £97m
Oxfordshire Access to Didcot Garden Town £218m
Oxfordshire A40 Smart Corridor £102m
Rutland St George’s Barracks £29.4m
Surrey A320 North of Woking £41.8m
Surrey A320 Woking Town Centre £95m
Surrey Slyfield Area Regeneration Project £52.3m
Swindon New Eastern Villages, Southern Connector Road £18.9m
Thurrock Purfleet Centre £75.1m
Wiltshire Chippenham Urban Expansion £75.1m