Archive for February 2009
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Conservatives demand help for Lambeth businesses
Lambeth Conservatives have called upon the Labour-run Council to support local businesses during the recession by cutting the time it pays invoices from small businesses from 30 days to 10…
Lambeth should work with ‘five borough’ charity
Crystal Palace residents living in Lambeth are missing out on possible new community projects because Lambeth Council is not sending a representative to meetings of a charity, according to Gipsy Hill Councillor Andrew Gibson…
Brixton solicitor and civic hero dies suddenly
Phil Cremin, who died suddenly on 2nd February 2009 after suffering from a heart condition, was a well known Brixton criminal law solicitor. For 27 years he represented numerous people from socially deprived backgrounds and encouraged some of them to enter the legal profession. He was 57. Phil was originally from the Birmingham area and [...]
Labour’s ‘porkie pie’ record on housing
Labour Lambeth let down tenants before it took power in 2006 by failing to tell them it planned to set up the deeply unpopular Arms Length Management Organisation (ALMO), now called Lambeth Living…
Lambeth faces fraud inquiry over £22m overspend
Labour bosses face an investigation over a possible overspend of £22m in housing budgets. Houses were left empty while the council continued to pay private landlords for their use and it regularly took six weeks for new tenants…