A mother-of-two is demanding compensation after being forced to live in a council house with ‘bricks falling from the ceiling’ and a catalogue of health damaging problems. Debbie Barker, 32, has lived in the three-bedroom property in Meir, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, for three years but claims the issues began in 2019. After calling on Stoke-on-Trent City Council … Read more
Unbelievable footage shows yet another parish council zoom meeting in Cheshire descending into chaos as a councillor mutters, ‘Wipe that smirk off your f***ing face, you f***ing piece of s**t’ – not realising he is unmuted. The heated clip, involving members of Penketh Parish Council, has emerged just days after a chaotic Zoom meeting in Handforth … Read more
There was shouting, lewd language and more boisterous behaviour than a rugby club on a Saturday night: a scene of such squabbling it was like the Bash Street Kids rather than a meeting of upstanding members of a local community. We may think of parish councillors as benign folk concerned with little more than the … Read more
THE PEACEMAKER Jackie Weaver Jackie Weaver was assisting councillors during the Handforth Parish Council meeting which captured national attention Jackie Weaver was assisting councillors during the now famous Handforth Parish Council meeting which captured national attention. She is the Chief Officer of the Cheshire Association of local councils. Jackie is married to Stuart, a retired … Read more
Jackie Weaver has become a household name overnight after being at the cente of a spat at Handforth Parish Council’s planning meeting that saw her eject the chairman from a Zoom call after he rejected her authority Until today Handforth’s claim to fame was being home to one of Britain’s biggest M&S superstores and its … Read more
Parish council planning and environment committee meetings are usually quite a dull and sleepy affair. But for the people of Handforth in Cheshire, one such event turned into an explosive trail of insults, power grabs and chaos as councillors lost control of what was meant to be a very simple agenda. Footage of the absurd meeting … Read more
Council admin worker, 24, who spent £200 a day on cocaine stole £6,000 from his employers to pay off his drug debts in cycle to work scheme voucher scam, court hears Council-worker John Buckley, 24, submitted cycle to work scheme vouchers Buckley approved 6 fraudulent cycle to work scheme vouchers for himself The vouchers, totaling … Read more
Muslim Council of Britain chooses human rights law graduate, 29, as its first ever female leader Zara Mohammed is first woman Secretary General of Muslim Council of Britain Ms Mohammed hopes her election will ‘inspire more women and young people’ Ms Mohammed has shared pictures of her posing with London Mayor Sadiq Khan Said taking … Read more
Fat cat council bosses including chief executive on £180,000-a-year are accused of jumping the queue after getting Covid jab – as authority admits it doesn’t know how many staff have already had jab Chief executive Paul Robinson and an assistant director known to have got jabs Jonathan Fitzgerald-Guy proudly posted about it on his social … Read more
Maintenance firm called Handymen is REFUSED lockdown business grant by council because of ‘gender discrimination’ as boss says ‘it is just a name’ Property maintenance firm Handymen has managed more than 2,000 properties Company in South Wales was launched in 1987 and employs a number of women Penarth Town Council has refused a £1,000 grant, … Read more