Alastair Clifford suspended from Folkestone & Hythe District Council
Updated 28.06.22 @19:00 Breaking News: Alastair Clifford (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s Chief Officer for operations, has been suspended today [...]
Princes Parade: Sunningdale House Developments has ‘acquired’ Princes Parade & Hythe Pool site
David Richard Pownceby (pictured) has held or holds directorships in 97 companies. Companies House shows that he is, or has resided in 68 companies as a director, person of [...]
Cllrs need to step up their game understanding council finances.
In the 10 years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have been publishing their spend data, £179m or 48% of the spend has been on premises related expenditure, as the [...]
Wimble’s Looker Magazine, applies for £19,000 from Council’s High Street Fund
Cllr David Wimble (Ind) (pictured) is never a man far away from controversy or fake news. Just recently we informed you he’d made a complaint about Fred Miller of [...]
Temporary staff costs rise 28% in four years under Dr Susan Priest’s leadership
On the 1st April 2018, Dr Susan Julia Priest (pictured), became the first woman to be the Head of Paid Services (HoPS) of Folkestone & Hythe District Council. She took [...]
Another financial irregularity at the council
Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s constitution describes how they operate, makes sure they perform well, and are transparent. The constitution is the [...]
Otterpool Park Update: £5m on more land.
It’s official, with an extra five million on land acquisitions and the final overall fee paid to the masterplanner Arcadis, the costs of Otterpool Park, where the [...]
Grenfell Tower: In Memory of the 72 who lost their lives
Five years ago today, 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower disaster because elected Cllrs, Kensington & Chelsea Council and its arms length, Tenant Management [...]
£658,771 of contract irregularities on just three contracts
‘Fraud‘ says The local government transparency code 2015 (the Code), ‘can thrive where decisions are not open to scrutiny and details of spending, contracts [...]
Whistleblower claims lack of governance and internal controls at FHDC
This is a guest post “I am a senior council officer at Folkestone & Hythe District Council. I am publicly blowing the whistle to the Shepway Vox Team for reasons [...]
Council publicly admit two investigations into contractual and financial irregularities
Updated 09.06.22 @09:28am Charlotte Spendley (pictured), Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s s151 Officer (the council officer with statutory responsibility for [...]
Hythe Green Preservation Society improving the environment
This is a guest post Among all the talk of development and building over green spaces, Hythe Green is moving in the other direction. Following the successful partnership of [...]
From top to bottom, is the council rotten?
When an organisation such as Folkestone & Hythe District Council, fails to manage and curtail ‘financial irregularities’, ‘contract [...]
Clients & Employees of The Grand owed hundreds of thousands in upaid wages and refunds
Updated: 04/06/22 @08:39 Prof Victor Klinkinhoffer B.TECH MC (aka) Robert Graham Moss (pictured), and director of five companies, of which four are registered to the address [...]
Two QCs say report must be issued over unlawful expenditure of Premier Roofing & Clifford Carpentry and Interior contracts
Following on from our last post, Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council? we sought the legal opinions [...]
Is this evidence of Fraud, Financial Irregularities, Non Compliance @ Folkestone & Hythe District Council?
Each year the Chairman of Folkestone & Hythe District Council Audit & Governance Committee (A&GC), must respond to the external auditors letter which asks: [...]
Delays in software leads to residents frustration over £150 Council Tax rebate during cost of living crisis.
Updated May 26 @ 16:35 On the 3rd Feb 2022, Chancellor Rishi Sunak announced a £150 council tax rebate for millions of households to help with soaring energy bills. The [...]
Whistleblower claims allegations of “serious and sustained fraud within the council”
Updated: 25.05.22 @ 15:12 A whistleblower’s allegation of corruption and cronyism inside Folkestone & Hythe District Council are so serious they claim only a [...]
Are Cllrs Monk, Field & the monitoring officer Amandeep Khroud acting with honesty & integrity?
On the 19th Nov 2021, we brought you the post: Cllr David Monk has a new occupation In the post we pointed out that Cllr David Drury Monk was a director in K B Occupational [...]
More financial irregularities at Folkestone & Hythe District Council
What is £5,553.96 + £0? The answer according to Folkestone & Hythe District Council is £5,811.96. What is £5,553.96 + £258? The answer is according to Folkestone [...]
More court cases for Michael Stainer yet to come.
July 8th, the day Michael Stainer will be sentenced for cheating the public revenue and fraud by false representation of £473,097, after a two week trial at Southwark Crown [...]
Michael Stainer guilty of ripping off staff and to be sentenced on July 8.
Michael Stainer [74] who cheated his employees and the taxman out of £473,097.07 while running The Grand is facing jail. Michael Stainer (pictured), 74, trousered the [...]
Council hiding seven years worth of credit card financial payments.
Seven years Folkestone & Hythe District Council have hidden, and failed to publish financial data for their Government Procurement Cards (read credit card), in clear [...]
Stainer Trial – Jury retires after 14 days of evidence
After 14 days of deliberations in the case of The Queen v Doris & Michael Stainer (pictured below), the jury have retired to consider the evidence. In all seven witnesses [...]
More bent council contracts? You decide.
Is it incompetence, fraud, stupidity or something else? How can contracts begin before they are even awarded? The answer of course is they can’t, as this would be a [...]