Mayor Releases London’s Draft Budget And Council Tax
Your council tax is going down, but don’t splash out just yet.
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Heat getting to you? Seems you’re not alone. Today’s news round-up features some pretty bonkers purchases.
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Wednesday’s news from around the town. Starring an errant ferret (try saying that two or three times when you’ve had a few).
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Midweek news, including two London giants which are just about to get even bigger.
Council Forgets To Pay Leccy Bill
Photo / vial3tt3r Lambeth council has been hit with an eye-watering £280,000 bill after it failed to pay for the electricity used on thousands of unmetered street lamps over a six-year period. Since 2004 the council has not paid an annual sum of £94,000 for …
Freedom Pass Funding Farrago Hits Councils
Image by *version-3-point-1 from the Londonist Flickr pool Councils are going to be hit hard by a government plan to halve Freedom Pass funding. An agreement made in 2008 was supposed to guarantee £58m for London’s pensioner travel in 2010/11, but Transport Minister Sadiq Khan …
Council Tax Good News
A ray of pecuniary sunshine for you now: London’s council tax bills will increase by less than the national average. After the Mayor kept his word to freeze the GLA’s portion, councils are raising bills by an average of 1.6%. Hammersmith and Fulham are even …
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Eveningsky Standardovich: the Russians are coming. Yelp, the local search community forum thingy, has just launched in London. Lots more measles cases, um, spotted in the capital. Iceland has bought 51 former Woolworths stores, 10 in London. That’s an awful lot of freezers they’ll need. …
GLA Council Tax Freeze
Holy kept political pledges, Batman! When Boris promised not to increase the GLA portion of Londoners’ council tax back at the Tory conference, the more cynical among us thought ‘yeah, yeah’. But the Mayor’s draft budget is out – and yes, £92m of savings have …
2012: Underbelly Of Unhappiness
You were warned the Olympian scammers were starting early. Seems it’s not only ticket tykes and touts that are getting ahead of the Games, though. One East London fraudster appears to have lured 550 Slovakian workers to London on the promise of jobs on the …
Bad Debts And Big Conversations
In the shy sunshine of the new tax year, just as we’re adjusting to those increased Council Tax bills and telling ourselves it’s OK because at least we get doorstep recycling collections these days, even if our bins are rationed, it’s revealed that London Councils …
