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Mar 5, 2021 8:51 AM As the call for scrapping the Digital Security Act grows after the death in jail of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says repealing the law will mean other laws have to be scrapped as well when people arrested under those laws die. Are you satisfied with his argument? Yes - 54%
Croydon LBC has formally submitted a request to the government for a capitalisation direction, allowing it to bypass normal borrowing rules and access a loan to balance its revenue budget. The request for a £150m loan follows three months of government negotiations, after the council's section 151 officer Lisa Taylor was forced to issue two section 114 notices in the space of three weeks when she found herself unable to set balanced budgets. The loan request by Croydon’s leader Hamida Ali (Lab) to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) is for £20m more than was...
Mar 5, 2021 8:51 AM As the call for scrapping the Digital Security Act grows after the death in jail of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says repealing the law will mean other laws have to be scrapped as well when people arrested under those laws die. Are you satisfied with his argument? Yes - 54%
Mar 5, 2021 8:51 AM As the call for scrapping the Digital Security Act grows after the death in jail of writer Mushtaq Ahmed, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud says repealing the law will mean other laws have to be scrapped as well when people arrested under those laws die. Are you satisfied with his argument? Yes - 54%
Nostalgia for the future: Exploring Croydon’s past and present through six buildings No. 1 Croydon Tower. Pic: Adrian Wallett In these virus-stricken times getting outside is, in fact, just what the doctor ordered. If you have exhausted your local parks or get a little down looking at denuded trees in winter, Croydon’s wealth of 20th-century modernist architecture offers the perfect escape into the borough’s history and, if you know where to search, a map to its present. The story of Croydon’s building boom began in the 1960s when a local councilor and Conservative alderman name...