Conservative council broke rules to lose £27 million in Icelandic banks
Yazan: sarabedford | 20 January 2009 | 1 Comment
Categories: Conservatives
Conservative controlled Hertfordshire County Council may have lost over £27 million of residents’ money by breaking their own rules to invest in Iceland’s banks. An independent report by PriceWaterhouseCoopers has revealed a number of errors that led to the county council investing millions in Icelandic banks. The council did not follow its own investment rules, which were [...]
Day 16: The great bin challenge
Yazan: sarabedford | 04 January 2009 | No Comments
Categories: family, Three Rivers
So here we are. Yesterday was 16 days on from the start of the Great Bin Challenge – and we did it! All our ‘residual’ waste for a family of three, our visitors and the dog in one 140 litre bin (the green one). Also shown are the (very full) recycling boxes for paper, glass, [...]
Between the lines
Yazan: sarabedford | 10 August 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Abbots Langley, casework, council, newspapers, Three Rivers
Just because Three Rivers has been a LibDem run council since 1994, and I have been a councillor since 1996, it doesn’t mean that I have to agree with everything it says and does. Today is certainly one of those days. This week’s Watford Observer carries a report of a resident who received a parking ticket after parking [...]
Community Centre gets the dosh
Yazan: sarabedford | 21 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: parish council, Three Rivers
Delighted that the Abbots Langley Community Centre have tonight been awarded a grant of £70,000 from Three Rivers District Council, together with £60,000 (half) of the Section 106 funding from the Ovaltine development.* Together with a grant of £25,000 from Abbots Langley Parish Council awarded last week, it means that a total of £155,000 for [...]
Oh, what a night!
Yazan: sarabedford | 15 July 2008 | No Comments
Categories: Conservatives, Labour, Three Rivers
Tonight’s full Council meeting was up to its usual standards of joy and happiness for all. Apparently anyone who mentions that successive Conservative and Labour governments have closed Post Offices is ‘playing politics’. The Conservative group tried a ‘delete all and insert’ type amendment to try and hide their shame of having begun the closure programme [...]
