Bonkers Blog Index 2011

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December

31 (Part 3) - The BAFTAs

31 (Part 2) - How many Bexley employees does it take to change a light bulb?

31 (Part 1) - Bexley is Bonkers and Internet Explorer 9

30 (Part 2) - Parking Adjudicator says Bexley is wrong. Again

30 (Part 1) - Bragging again…

29 - Where’s Melvin Seymour (Bexley’s favoured decorator) when you need him?

28 - Bexley council declares an extra Bank Holiday

27 - Councillor Craske - Having his Christmas cake and eating it

24 - Bexley council’s Christmas gift to Elwyn Bryant

23 (Part 3) - Tina Brooks v The Parking Adjudicator

23 (Part 2) - Awash with complaints

23 (Part 1) - James Brokenshire MP

22 (Part 3) - Local Government Ombudsman criticises Bexley council - again!

22 (Part 2) - An update on Bexley council’s obscene blog

22 (Part 1) - An update on my Subject Access Request

21 (Part 3) - Who’s the criminal?

21 (Part 2) - Olly Cromwell’s harassment case

21 (Part 1) - Parking confusion overcome - possibly

20 - Too little, too late, too Craske

19 - In case he hasn’t noticed…

18 - The amazing case of the disappearing Bexley councillor blogs

17 - Sudden outbreak of common sense at Bexley council

16 (Part 2)- Do you believe in coincidence?

16 (Part 1)- Councillors’ criminal records

15 (Part 2) - Part 2 is cancelled

15 (Part 1) - The strange case of the disappearing coppers

14 (Part 2) - Motorists kebabed

14 (Part 1) - Public cabinet meeting

13 (Part 3) - It’s not paranoia, they are out to get me

13 (Part 2) - A few news items

13 (Part 1) - They don’t care

12 (Part 3) - Olly Cromwell’s court appearance

12 (Part 2) - It’s official. Bexley council CCTV certification IS inadequate

12 (Part 1) - Today we may see how many more lies Bexley council can concoct against Olly Cromwell

11 - Websites banned by Bexley council

10 - How’s that for a lie?

9 (Part 2) - Petition against excessive salaries

9 (Part 1) - Money in Browne envelopes

8 (Part 2) - Beware. Profiteers operate in this area

8 (Part 1) - Post scripts

7 (Part 2) - Costs up, income down but profits rise. It must be magic

7 (Part 1) - For their next trick

6 - The blog

4 - Oddments

2 (Part 2) - Well done Bexley council

2 (Part 1) - Bexley council - making life difficult again

1 - They are at it again

November

29 - Bexley defies the Information Commissioner again

28 - Christmas cheer

27 (Part 2) - Number’s up for Will Tuckley

27 (Part 1) - Bexley.gov.uk

26 - Bailey baloney

25 (Part 3) - Just a family affair

25 (Part 2) - Bexley council pays out £12,741.08 compensation for maladministration

25 (Part 1) - Your say

24 (Part 2) - Ken rattles Bexley council

24 (Part 1) - Phone a fib

23 (Part 2) - The Black Horse has bolted

23 (Part 1) - Livingstone lays into Bexley council. Craske lies about Bexley council

22 - Well out of order

21 (Part 2) - Survey Monkeys

21 (Part 1) - Bexley Community Policing Engagement Group

20 - Something to smile about

19 - Blocked roads. Blockheads

18 (Part 2) - Just a windbag

18 (Part 1) - 10 things you didn’t know about…

17 (Part 3) - More bad news for Will Tuckley

17 (Part 2) - Coincidences and lies?

17 (Part 1) - Councillors and lolly. Not to be parted

16 - The two faces of Bexley

15 (Part 2) - A council controlled by criminals?

15 (Part 1) - More grist for the Information Commissioner’s mill

14 (Part 3) - Bus accident in Broadway

14 (Part 2) - The London Borough of Bexley - Nutsville

14 (Part 1) - Some FOIs and their answers

13 (Part 2) - The week’s post bag

13 (Part 1) - Pouring petrol on the flaming torches

12 (Part 2) - Bexleyheath police - not acting in the public interest

12 (Part 1) - The Mayoral leech

11 (Part 4) - Pitching in with flaming lies

11 (Part 3) - Like an open book

11 (Part 2) - You live in Bexley? Oh, that’s not good

11 (Part 1) - See more of the Seymour effect

10 (Part 4) - In this climate only a comeuppance will do

10 (Part 3) - Self inflicted wounds

10 (Part 2) - Olly Cromwell - Bang! Bang!

10 (Part 1) - Light blue touch paper and retire immediately

9 (Part 2) - Decorator whitewashed out of existence

9 (Part 1) - Never forget

8 - Newsreel

7 (Part 2) - Bexley council - Dishonest, incompetent, vindictive

7 (Part 1) - Bonkers Barnet council

6 - Oddments

5 - Bexley recycling - must do better

4 (Part 2) - The net tightens

4 (Part 1) - “There is nothing worse than a bent copper” - PC George Dixon of Dock Green

3 (Part 2) - Council meeting 2nd November

3 (Part 1) - Bexley-is-Bonkers to be prosecuted

2 (Part 2) - Council meeting tonight

2 (Part 1) - Website changes

1 (Part 2) - Notomob News

1 (Part 1) - Will Tuckey, Chief Executive. Big time failure

October

31 (Part 2) - Plod. Still protecting their friends

31 (Part 1) - Highlights of the month

30 - Between a rock and a hard place

29 - Question time

28 (Part 2) - Where’s Olly?

28 (Part 1) - Moving Heaven and Earth to protect their own

27 - Nick Johnson. Still embarrassing Bexley council

26 - Newsreel

25 - Bexley council, splashing your cash again

24 - Bexley. Slowest borough in London

23 - The money is running out

22 (Part 2) - Bexley council. A family affair

22 (Part 1) - The Contact form and Internet Explorer 6

21 (Part 2) - Bexley in the newspapers

21 (Part 1) - The obscene blog. An update

20 (Part 2) - Opposition slaughtered

20 (Part 1) - ‘Notomobe?’ Can’t the BBC get anything right?

19 (Part 4) - Cabinet meeting 18th October 2011

19 (Part 3) - The One Show

19 (Part 2) - Opaque Bexley

19 (Part 1) - Transparent Bexley

18 - Bexley police. Law unto themselves

17 (Part 3) - No data. No idea

17 (Part 2) - Bexley council criticized by leading Conservatives

17 (Part 1) - Reading between the loynes

16 (Part 2) - Bexley hits the less well off

16 (Part 1) - Bexley‘s ‘Poor little rich girl’

15 (Part 2) - The council’s best intentions? Sound ominous

15 (Part 1) - Setting the record straight

14 (Part 3) - Councillor Craske said it. Get the pinch of salt ready

14 (Part 2) - £9 million bill for council

14 (Part 1) - Technical adjustment

13 - Give us a clue; do

12 - Bexleyhealth Report

11 (Part 3) - One rule for them…

11 (Part 2) - Sending emails…

11 (Part 1) - Bexleyheath Police Farce

10 (Part 2) - Inaccurate and misleading

10 (Part 1) - BBC Panorama

9 (Part 2) - The petition rolls on

9 (Part 1) - Danson Festival

8 - Site maintenance

7 (Part 2) - Rattling their cages

7 (Part 1) - Refuse to accept their rubbish figures

6 (Part 3) - Crime and Disorder

6 (Part 2) - Is he the rudest councillor in Bexley?

6 (Part 1) - Bexley council puling the strings

5 (Part 2) - Refuse disposal costs

5 (Part 1) - Newsreel

4 (Part 3) - Pigs might fly

4 (Part 2) - Barbarism at the Public Realm meeting

4 (Part 1) - Boris takes the pledge

3 - Mayor Sams scores another own goal

2 - Collusion?

1 - Daft as a brush

September

30 (Part 2) - John Watson speaks to Nick Ferrari on LBC Radio

30 (Part 1) - Earthquake hits Bexley

29 (Part 2) - Bexley residents saved £3 million by recycling. True or False?

29 (Part 1) - Monitoring Man

28 (Part 2) - Lambasting Bexley Council

28 (Part 1) - Nothing to laugh about

27 - High (f)lyer

26 - The not listening, running away, falling flat on its face council

25 - Their number’s up

24 - Foot soldiers have Craske in their sights

23 (Part 2) - Gardeners’ World

23 (Part 1) - The absolutely not listening council. (Working to line their own pockets)

22 - Don’t dare to be different, Bexley council might sue you

21 - Bexley News

20 - Perks of the job

19 (Part 2) - Police action

19 (Part 1) - Site maintenance

17 - Newsreel

16 - Rubbish statistics

15 (Part 3) - Bexley’s Tories. Lying again

15 (Part 2) - Bexley council. Still intent on law dodging

15 (Part 1) - An open and honest council

14 (Part 2) - His number’s up

14 (Part 1) - Bexley council. Mad as a paint brush

13 - Huge whoppers. It’s not Smart

12 (Part 2) - Bexley on the box

12 (Part 1) - Going round in circles

11 (Part 2) - It’s not what you know…

11 (Part 1) - Bonkers is not Labour

10 (Part 2) - Bexley on the box

10 (Part 1) - Bexley’s bridge blunder

9 (Part 3) - Tesco is coming to Bexleyheath

9 (Part 2) - Lies, damn lies and website statistics

9 (Part 1) - Another FOI rejection

8 (Part 2) - It’s party time

8 (Part 1) - The obscene blog - who dunnit?

7 (Part 2) - The Harassment letter - who dunnit?

7 (Part 1) - Crime and Disorder on public display in the council chamber

6 (Part 2) - Obscene blog. Cover up continues

6 (Part 1) - Eric Pickles. All talk, no bite

5 - Site maintenance

3 - Cover up or cock-up?

2 - Information Commissioner harassing Bexley council

1 - Sleazebuster

August

31 - The month of the Craske

30 - Cheats never prosper

29 - “Town hall chiefs are the real looters”

28 (Part 3) - Craske’s dodgy dealing

28 (Part 2) - A lucky escape

28 (Part 1) - Pillaging Peter

27 - Newsreel

26 - Don’t mess with the Notomob

25 - Do the right thing

24 (Part 2) - Parking 4 Free

24 (Part 1) - Obscene blog - update

23 - Councillor Craske - making more enemies

22 - Councillor Craske - hitting traders hard again

21 - Craske’s delusional parking statistics

19 (Part 2) - Broadcasting Bexley’s Crimes

19 (Part 1) - Councillor Craske, fiddling with statistics again

18 - Turning their backs on democracy and the law

17 - Would you credit it?

16 - Bexley council’s mission to make shopping more expensive

15 - Craske’s mission to make parking more expensive; or even impossible

13 - The obscene blog. First sign of movement

12 - One broke the law, the other wants to

11 - CCTV. To keep us safer or poorer?

9 - Better safe than sorry

8 - The shame and the sham

7 - Political censorship in the UK

5 - Catch 22?

4 - Free parking

3 (Part 3) - Not biting the hand that feeds it

3 (Part 2) - Bexley First

3 (Part 1) - Ombudsman criticises Bexley Council over parking fine

2 - Welcome to Bexley

1 - Resident’s Parking Permit price increases. No justification

July

30 - It's the end of the month already

29 - Petition against excessive salaries

28 - Newsreel

27 - Bexley council. In the wrong again

26 (Part 2) - Teresa goes to Pickles. James gets in a pickle

26 (Part 1) - Road Rage offender fined

25 (Part 2) - Freedom of Information (FOI)

25 (Part 1) - Boris in Bexley - An alternative view

24 - Flackley Ash Hotel. The truth at last

23 - In the news

22 - Boris in Bexley

21 (Part 2) - Another money making scam? Parents beware!

21 (Part 1) - Double trouble

20 (Part 2) - Frizoni Follies

20 (Part 1) - Time travellers?

19 (Part 2) - Dirty Cops and Bent Justice

19 (Part 1) - Dustbin men more sensible than council directors

18 - Wanton waste

17 - Residents blacklisted by councils

16 - Before and After - a vindictive, spiteful, secretive, dishonest council got to work

15 - Library censorship

14 (Part 2) - Bexley council. Paranoid and poisonous

14 (Part 1) - Craskegate

13 - Another night of fun and farce at the Civic Centre

12 - Read who’s the idiot now

11 - Thank you but no Goodbye

10 - Listening to nobody. Reaping the rewards

9 - Public Service Announcement

8 - Bent cops. Bent hacks. Bent council?

7 (Part 2) - Listening to nobody. Working for themselves

7 (Part 1) - Fat cat’s salary leads to lost seats

6 (Part 2) - Long Service Awards revisited - TIC too

6 (Part 1) - News Shopper gets it wrong

5 - Flackley Ash Hotel - so good they went there twice

4 (Part 2) - Bexley council in the national press

4 (Part 1) - The rat runs

3 - About time

1 - Ashford Employment Tribunal finds Bexley council guilty of unfair dismissal

June

30 (Part 3) - What the papers say

30 (Part 2) - Propaganda alert

30 (Part 1) - Plod’s plodding pace

29 - The Audit Committee

28 - The case continues…

27 (Part 3) - Bexley council - they’ve been lying again

27 (Part 2) - Thames Innovation Centre (TIC)

27 (Part 1) - Bexley police are still protecting Bexley council

26 - “I can do what I like”

25 - No to Mobiles

24 (Part 3) - The Old Bailey next?

24 (Part 2) - Public Realm and Scrutiny Committee

24 (Part 1) - Now we are famous

23 - Throw the book at them; the committee is bound to cover it up

22 - Planning for office

21 - Armed Forces Day

19 - Not happy unless they are wrecking something

18 - Gorging themselves at your expense

17 - Crime and Disorder

16 - Bexley council is listening - to Bonkers!

15 (Part 2) - Seems I was a bit hasty…

15 (Part 1) - Don’t let the buggers get you down Mr. Brokenshire

14 - It’s one rule for them and…

13 (Part 2) - The art of question dodging

13 (Part 1) - Bexley council - Not listening, not working and now not watching

12 (Part 2) - Freedom of Information (FOI)

12 (Part 1) - Secrecy comes as standard

11 (Part 2) - Can’t answer; won’t answer

11 (Part 1) - Any excuse will do

10 (Part 2) - Apparently it’s a crime

10 (Part 1) - Petition to council

9 - “You have provided evidence that a crime has been committed”

8 - Short and sweet

7 - Forget all thoughts of straight dealing; this is Bexley!

6 (Part 2) - A dirty trick is worth repeating

6 (Part 1) - You will need Patience

5 (Part 2) - Parking permit application

5 (Part 1) - Blog off Bexley

4 (Part 2) - Taking lessons from Joseph

4 (Part 1) - While corruption and dishonesty reign, simple incompetence continues

3 (Part 2) - The Contact Centre

3 (Part 1) - Thames Innovation Centre. More trickery by Bexley council

2 - Newsreel

1 (Part 2 ) - Update on Freedom of Information requests

1 (Part 1 ) - Council’s S.W.A.T. team meets

May

31 (Part 2) - Question Mayor Boris Johnson

31 (Part 1) - Big Brother is alive and well in Bexley

30 (Part 4) - And now they have gone completely bonkers

30 (Part 3) - Somebody thinks Bonkers is racist

30 (Part 2) - Greenwich democracy reformed. Bexley democracy deformed

30 (Part 1) - Total Whitening or total BS?

29 (Part 4) - Round in circles

29 (Part 3) - Mary thinks it’s funny

29 (Part 2) - Would you buy a used car from this pair?

29 (Part 1) - Site map

28 (Part 3) - Questions, letters, damn lies and statistics

28 (Part 2) - Credit card purchases

28 (Part 1) - Another council plot

27 - A family affair

26 (Part 4) - Pick-pocketing Peter panned

26 (Part 3) - Pick-pocketing Peter

26 (Part 2) - Spreading the word

26 (Part 1) - Legal notice

25 - Fortress Bexley

24 - Please stop talking because we don’t want to listen

23 (Part 3) - A twisted conspiracy question. Read all about it

23 (Part 2) - Another hypocrite. Bexley council is full of ’em!

23 (Part 1) - Busy bumbling bees. “Working for you”

22 (Part 3) - Hypocrisy or what?

22 (Part 2) - Lap dancing clubs in Bexley - just what is our Licensing Committee up to?

22 (Part 1) - Rogues Gallery

21 - No blog today

20 (Part 2) - AVarice again

20 (Part 1) - Dirty tricks?

19 - Sams the man

18 - Newsreel

17 - The blame game

16 (Part 2) - Arts and farts

16 (Part 1) - Bus fuss

15 (Part 2) - The artful fee dodger

15 (Part 1) - If at first you don’t succeed

14 (Part 2) - Notomob support Martin Peaple

14 (Part 1) - We’re skint, but we can afford this

13 (Part 2) - Newsreel

13 (Part 1) - Bexley Conservatives. They just can’t stop lying

12 (Part 2) - Support the Mob

12 (Part 1) - Teresa O’Neill. Guilty as charged

11 (Part 2) - Now watch them wriggle

11 (Part 1) - Freedom to Misinform

10 - The law says the aim is “no penalty charges”

9 - Turning her back on the electorate

8 (Part 2) - The door slams shut

8 (Part 1) - Voluntary giving?

7 (Part 2) - AVarice

7 (Part 1) - Feeding the fuzz and feedback’s a buzz

6 (Part 4) - Where feeble men fear to tread

6 (Part 3) - Life is vexing

6 (Part 2) - Nice work if you can get it

6 (Part 1) - News Shopper on acid

5 (Part 2) - Craske ducks it

5 (Part 1) - Piling on the pressure

4 - Welcome to Bexley

3 (Part 2) - Will sick Nick be nicked?

3 (Part 1) - Playing a-round with our money

2 (Part 2) - Three into two won’t go - ever!

2 (Part 1) - Flak over Flackley

1 - April’s highlights

April

30 - Bexley Conservatives. Panic and desperation

29 - Planning. Full of surprises

28 (Part 2) - Newsreel

28 (Part 1) - Under the Jackboot

27 - Thames Innovation Centre Whistleblower 1 : Bexley council nil

26 (Part 2) - Tesco deal approved

26 (Part 1) - Does the Tesco deal checkout?

21 - Bonkers is closing down - but only for the Easter break

20 - Bexley council’s complaints procedure. Another sham

19 (Part 3) - Sham consultations

19 (Part 2) - Time bomb. Tick, tick

19 (Part 1) - Dirt. Diversions. Development. Dishonesty and Dames. (Pantomime Dames)

18 (Part 3) - Don’t tell Audit

18 (Part 2) - Tape evidence frightens council

18 (Part 1) - Funny Money

17 (Part 2) - Hang ‘em and flog ‘em

17 (Part 1) - Under the Jackboot again

16 (Part 3) - Too generous by far

16 (Part 2) - The disabled are buggied in Bexley

16 (Part 1) - Under the Jackboot

15 (Part 2) - Residents showered with TLC again

15 (Part 1) - The police state of Bexley

14 (Part 2) - A taster for things to come

14 (Part 1) - Where next?

13 (Part 2) - Everywhere has gone Bonkers

13 (Part 1) - Fame at last!

12 - Harassment and alarm. Headless chicken syndrome

11 (Part 3) - ‘ello, ‘ello, ‘ello. What’s goin’ on ‘ere then?

11 (Part 2) - I thought they were cleverer than that

11 (Part 1) - Ghost riders

10 (Part 2) - Marriage of convenience

10 (Part 1) - $camera hunting - (The NoToMob call it ‘$chunting’)

9 - The NoToMob returns to Bexley

8 (Part 2) - Predatory Peter

8 (Part 1) - Priti Pathetic

7 - Cuts are for the riff-raff not for us says the Fat Controller

6 - The Inspire Community Trust

5 - The police state of Bexley

4 - Boris Johnson and the Fat Controller; together again

2 (Part 2) - Carole’s battle with TfL and the money grabbing TLC

2 (Part 1) - The NoToMob comes to Bexley

1 - Mayor Val Clark. Serial offender against local democracy

March

31 - The chocolate teapot, she can run but she cannot hide

30 - Councillor Michael Tarrant, Stalinist tyrant

29 - It’s not only councillors who lie

28 (Part 2) - Parking charges up by 25% and extended to evenings and Sundays

28 (Part 1) - The NoToMob comes to Bexley

27 (Part 2) - Freedom of Information requests (FOI)

27 (Part 1) - Welling’s bus lane

26 (Part 3) - The NoToMob comes to Bexley

26 (Part 2) - Carole’s battle with TfL and a heartless head teacher

26 (Part 1) - The NoToMob comes to Bexley

25 - Councillor Craske - Defrauding motorists again

24 (Part 3) - Freedom of Information requests (FOI)

24 (Part 2) - Kevin Fox (Head of Committee Services) ducks the question

24 (Part 1) - Democracy Bexley style

23 - Press round up

22 - Something shameful to hide

21 (Part 2) - Thames Innovation Centre

21 (Part 1) - Councillor John Waters. Fingers in many pies, and gorging on them

20 - Bexley’s Core Strategy

19 (Part 3) - More pain for motorists. More of Craske’s strange accounting

19 (Part 3) - William Morris Fountain

19 (Part 1) - Update on Carole’s struggle to get her children to school

18 (Part 2) - Thames Innovation Centre. Blame this money pit on Labour; well maybe not

18 (Part 1) - Twank is a Twonk - (Google it!)

17 (Part 2) - Snouts ever deeper in the trough

17 (Part 1) - Thames Innovation Centre. Keep your bankrupt business afloat the Bexley council way

16 (Part 4) - Craske’s gestapo

16 (Part 3) - The Thames Innovation Centre (TIC) - and other dens of iniquity

16 (Part 2) - The News Shopper

16 (Part 1) - The police state of Bexley

15 (Part 5) - The police state of Bexley

15 (Part 4) - Thames Innovation Centre (TIC)

15 (Part 3) - Purple Pygmy porkies?

15 (Part 2) - Twankey’s toy-boy doesn’t take orders

15 (Part 1) - Residents’ Parking Permits

14 (Part 3) - Thames Innovation Centre

14 (Part 2) - ‘Citrine’ is a book, the mayor is a lemon

14 (Part 1) - Mayor approves disrespect to residents by councillors. It’s official policy

13 (Part 2) - The chocolate fireguard - will it stand the heat?

13 (Part 1) - Councillors powerless

12 (Part 3) - Germany calling

12 (Part 2) - The police state of Bexley

12 (Part 1) - The chocolate teapot - it spouts and drips but it has no handle

11 (Part 6) - “Unaccountable, Undemocratic and Unfit for Office”

11 (Part 5) - Some lighter stuff

11 (Part 4) - The police state of Bexley

11 (Part 3) - Fishing trips

11 (Part 2) - The police state of Bexley

11 (Part 1) - The police state of Bexley

10 (Part 4) - The pub round up

10 (Part 3) - Sense and sensibilities with a whole lot of nonsense mixed in

10 (Part 2) - The Guilty and the Gullible

10 (Part 1) - War & Peace

9 (Part 5) - “At odds with the fundamentals of democracy”

9 (Part 4) - They don’t like it up ‘em

9 (Part 3) - Go compare 3

9 (Part 2) - Death of democracy

9 (Part 1) - Go compare 2

8 (Part 2) - Bureaucracy gone mad

8 (Part 1) - Thames Innovation Centre

7 (Part 5) - Craske’s department. Wickedness and waste

7 (Part 4) - Arthur Pewty’s Maggot Sandwich

7 (Part 3) - Better than watching TV

7 (Part 2) - Admiring glances

7 (Part 1) - Street clutter

6 (Part 4) - Go compare

6 (Part 3) - Erith river front development

6 (Part 2) - Why would anyone risk being seen as a paedophile’s friend?

6 (Part 1) - Incompetent or undemocratic?

5 (Part 3) - The Barmy Bexley Borough Blog

5 (Part 2) - Dishonest, incompetent, vindictive

5 (Part 1) - Open government Bexley council style - part 2

4 (Part 4) - Better late than never

4 (Part 3) - Mayor no longer fit to be in the driving seat

4 (Part 2) - V for Vendetta

4 (Part 1) - Has-PhilipRead-gone-Bonkers.com

3 (Part 3) - Councillor Philip Read says Bexley is Bonkers too

3 (Part 2) - Pantomime at the Civic Centre

3 (Part 1) - The pig-pen

2 (Part 3) - Taylor and Craske. Thick as thieves

2 (Part 2) - Crippling chicanery

2 (Part 1) - Crass Cretinous Cock-up. (No name needed)

1 (Part 2) - Open government Bexley council style

1 (Part 1) - A cabinet of woodentops

February

28 - Trivial Pursuits

27 - A matter of choice

26 (Part 2) - Craske’s cash cow was all bull

26 (Part 1) - A bit of a conundrum. Suggestions welcome

25 - Bacon. A little egg on our faces

24 (Part 3) - Bexley council is bent

24 (Part 2) - Press Review

24 (Part 1) - Ruts at Ruxley. Rats in charge

23 (Part 3) - Thanks everyone

23 (Part 2) - Don’t get angry, get even

23 (Part 1) - Don’t shoot the messenger

22 - Blackfen Library; another work of genius

21 - Vali Baba and the 40 62 thieves stage another pantomime

20 - Shock horror! One of Craske’s figures may be right

19 - Bringing home the Bacon

18 (Part 2) - The Crook Lodge

18 (Part 1) - Reader’s right

17 - Craske can make CPZs disappear, by magic or neglect

16 (Part 2) - Council of despair

16 (Part 1) - Sheltered Homes Are Misled

15 - The liar Craske again

14 - The liar Craske

13 - Strange bedfellows

11 - Tough luck Waltham Forest

10 - London councils promise to freeze council tax. Bexley holds back

9 - Unfortunately it is Non-fiction

8 - The fat cats ignore the fat rats

6 - Just a windbag?

5 - Please tell me this is fiction

4 - Parking meters for the chop?

3 - Penny pinching Hurts the vulnerable

2 - News of the Residents’ Parking Permit saga. The Artful Dodgers are at it again

1 - Street clutter and fly tipping

January

31 - A coincidence? Almost certainly

30 - Cuts - except for O’Neill’s favoured few

27 - Better late than never

26 - Good news. Bad news

22 - Craske’s preference for vengeance and spite over commonsense

19 - Ladies and Gentlemen; this man is taking the pee

15 - Three more missing parking meters

12 - Vindictive council rushes to punish innocent motorists again

4 - There are conscientious people working for Bexley council

3 - Another parking restriction

1 - Bexley’s out-of-hours emergency service