Investigations into the activities of ADVANCE
Northumberland and the Tory led County Council have taken a number of twists
and turns.
The investigators appear to have left no stone unturned with rumours that community spend is now a strand that's being looked at forensically by at least one of the teams involved in the inquiries.
It seems that looking after your pals has become a little common place and have those pals followed the rules regarding spend? If the tab packet list we have seen is anything to go by then the pals seem to have ‘lost their way a little’ in the use of the cash and the County Council Tories are now desperate to get it back before the iron doors clash behind them and their relatives forget who they are
One of the smaller amounts to be handed over, but possibly one of the most interesting, this one through the County Councils Community Chest gifting program was a £5000 award to Loobiggin by the Sea Town Council.
Allegedly it hasn’t been spent on the work it was supplied for and under the rules of the ‘Chest’ must be paid back. We hear that the request for payback has been lodged but has not yet appeared on anyone’s desk at County Hall.
The fear from residents who are aware of this matter is that it has been put into the ‘buy a bog’ fund set up by the Tories at Loobiggin Town Council to purchase and modernise a redundant and costly to refurbish blot on the landscape near to the Cresswell Arms in this wonderful seaside village.
The Town Council have proposed to buy the loos at great expense to their precept from their fellow Tory led County Council in a capital asset venture. Local people are incensed at the planned purchase of what was labelled as a health hazard. It has now developed into a neighbourhood territorial dispute between the Town Council and residents who don’t want a rise in their precept to support a second class facility.
Locals and regular visitors to the Town are so upset about the antics of the Town Council they have launched a petition to try to halt the purchase the link sits below.
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