Russ Trent pointed out that the end date of the FOI (the month of August) included loads of temporary seafront staff who wouldn't have been included at the start date (May), & that leisure, housing & regen staff have been brought in-house; but that comment's been removed from the Echo's FB page 🤔

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I love how the Echo have buried Mark Anderson's piece ALREADY (after < 6 hrs) because it's not getting the comments the editor, or his handlers, thought it would ... Nice to see Anderson's corruption not being forgotten by residents either. More on the Reform-coloured Christmas lights later .....

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Southbourne item likely to be brought forward given vast no of members of the public present. Also on agenda: FuturePlaces report - 18 governance recommendations arising from Drew Mellor and Philip Broadhead's corruption; and government reform of planning regulations www.youtube.com/live/b_65Oux...

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So BCP Council officers are now tearing up the Constitution to allow a petition to be presented, WAY OUTSIDE the 10-working day requirement set by Procedure Rule 4D 13.19, in which a load of beachfront café customers ask the Council to break procurement law. www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2663312...

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Backstory here is that the lease to a Southbourne Beach café site, held by Macemade Ltd (t/a "SoBo Beach"), is due to expire on 31/10/26 and a procurement process has resulted in a successful bid from another party. (Rumoured to be "Seventa Events Ltd".) SoBo customers set the petition up last week.

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