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EPPING
The council has wasted eye-watering amounts of taxpayer cash via loans to its own property management company that it will never recover.

SHROPSHIRE
The Lib Dem-led county, which won a government bailout of almost £193m, is putting housing firm Cornovii Developments out of its misery.

CROYDON
The ombudsman has fined the London borough after housing a disabled woman and her adult daughter in cramped, temporary housing for nine months.

WIGAN
A council boss quit for “new opportunities” after presiding over contentious plans for a mega-warehouse complex in a residential neighbourhood.

DORSET
Campaigners have won celebrity backing in their demands for the council to improve Lyme Regis harbour’s fishing and boating facilities.

CAMBRIDGESHIRE
A Green councillor who was named the party’s “democracy and citizen engagement” spokesperson in August has now left the party.

DERBYSHIRE
The Reform UK council leader joined a virtual special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) meeting while driving his Bentley.

HOUNSLOW
Labour’s housing cabinet member at the west London basket case failed to declare director and shareholder roles at a housing firm.


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