CORNWALL
The council’s housing company belatedly authorised a 91-year-old man’s stairlift request – the day after he died from a fall on his staircase.

COLCHESTER
The city council is in a spat with Reform-controlled Essex county council after the latter unleashed private rent-a-cops on to Colchester’s streets.

SOUTH TYNESIDE
Reform is shutting 10 nurseries, leaving the families of nearly 300 pre-schoolers – 38 of them with SEND requirements – feeling abandoned.

SOMERSET
A community-led campaign to regenerate a long-derelict 12-acre site in Frome has been torpedoed by the Lib Dem-run council.

EALING
Leader Peter Mason (Labour) is pocketing around £137,000 in allowances thanks to wearing a number of municipal hats.

SANDWELL
Reform’s Ritchie Massey, whose greasy spoon infamously flouted planning rules, has just won retrospective permission two years after opening.


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