A man is receiving counselling after discovering his marriage was an elaborately orchestrated sham set up by the council so his ‘wife’ could log his minor parking misdemeanours.
‘We had two lovely kids, everything was great. Then, just after our third anniversary, she issued me with 148 parking tickets and £26,000 of fines!’
Posted: Dec 30th, 2011
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Mr Derek O’Hara, a former resident of the controversial site, described Basildon Council’s customer service drive as ‘poor to very poor. I’d say 3 out of 10’.
Posted: Oct 19th, 2011
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‘It was clear from the record number of objections we received in respect of this application that to grant permission would have been hugely controversial,’ Martin Broderick from UNCBU told reporters.
Posted: Mar 2nd, 2011
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Three people made redundant by Hampshire County Council have seized the opportunity to establish their own start-up local authority.
Posted: Jan 21st, 2011
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‘All the villages around us are twinned,” said Graham Huntsdon of Stuffing Grotwick Parish Council. ‘After a while it starts to get to you when they talk about their trip to France to meet the mayor of the village they’re twinned with.’
Posted: Oct 31st, 2010
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