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Oct 19, 2022 13 tweets 3 min read
🚨 What IS the state of BCP Council finances?🚨
An important thread 👇 1⃣ BACKGROUND: BCP Council applied for a capitalisation direction from government to borrow around £75million in the coming years. This came after the council's beach hut 'sell-off' had to be abandoned when the government closed a loop-hole, leaving a big hole in the budget.
Oct 19, 2022 6 tweets 6 min read
Good morning! Here are our top stories this morning ⬇️🧵 #Dorset #LocalNews 1⃣ 'Frustrated' residents were rudely awoken by a 'mini firework display' in the early hours of the morning. Police were called after the startling early alarm call. Story by @EvieCoffeyEcho here #Poole bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23057535.…
Oct 18, 2022 7 tweets 6 min read
Hello 👋 What's happening in Dorset we hear you cry? Well, here are our top stories today 👇🧵#Dorset #LocalNews 1⃣ 'Squatters' play 'awful drum and bass techno' music until 3.30am in Poole. @MattSimpsonEcho spoke to the residents who live near to this boarded up council building #Poole bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23055560.…
Oct 17, 2022 6 tweets 3 min read
Good morning! Hope you all had a good weekend - here are our top stories today 👇🧵 1⃣ A heartbroken widow is asking for answers after being forced to wait on hold for an ambulance for more than 20 minutes while she was doing CPR on her husband. She lives just two miles from Royal Bournemouth Hospital. Paul Blehs died three days later bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/23032164.… Image
Jun 1, 2020 9 tweets 3 min read
Good morning! Here are our top stories today: 1) 'It's horrendous' - Staff spate and abused as swarms of people swamp Bournemouth beaches bit.ly/3dnbYOO (Picture: Sally Scruton) Visitors flocked to beaches in Bournemouth over both days of another sunny weekend but BCP Council leader Vikki Slade said staff have been treated appalling while they attempted to keep people safe.