MERTON
The south London borough has repeatedly failed to find a school place for an 11-year-old boy who has been mostly out of education for almost five years.

LEICESTER
The council has twice defied recommendations to modestly compensate families it failed – while handing £10m to its waste contractor in a dispute.

FERMANAGH & OMAGH
Yet again the district council has lost an information war with local reporters after a fruitless complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office.

HARLOW
A theatre group of disabled performers were banned from council premises and had their funding cut after a mention of Gaza at a Holocaust memorial event.

BRISTOL
Three organisations declared in Lord (Marvin) Rees's Lords register of interests benefited from favourable decisions or contracts during his mayoralty.

SUTTON
A Labour councillor living in Spain is not seeking re-election. An investigation found he had broken Sutton's code of conduct in a spat with a Tory councillor.

NORTH NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
The council is accused of penny-pinching and making residents housebound with plans to remove communal stairlifts in sheltered housing staircases.


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