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Caption Contest Number 2

Written by Matt B · first published 20/01/2009

Time is running out if you want to vote on the caption contest started in 2008. While the last of the votes are being made I'd like to introduce you to another competition. The rules are the same - enter as many times as you would like and the winning is the caption for the image.

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Sandy and the gas men

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Thanet Council spend without limit - OAP has to find Ł16,000 to cover it.

Written by Matt B · first published 13/01/2009

Thanet District Council have forced a disabled OAP to increase her mortgage by Ł16,000 just to pay for work to the outside of her flat that they claimed were "essential services".

Dorothy Hacking, of Harbour towers was told by Thanet District Council was rightly panic-stricken when TDC told her that they would be billing her for more than Ł16,000 for external overcladding to Harbour Towers, in Ramsgate. Mrs Hacking who is 91 years old and extremely frail owns the leasehold of her former council property. Mrs Hacking was told that she would have to pay her share of the costs, whether she wanted the work carried out or not.

I was petrified that if I did not pay up, I would be evicted, said Mrs Hacking, who, aside from suffering deafness and failing eye sight, also suffers from a broken back. She is now paying an extra Ł112 a month out of her very small income to cover the council bill even though she needs to money to live on.

The worse part, for me, is all evidence suggests that the work carried out may not have been essential at all but may have been optional. Yet TDC carried out the work without consulting the residents of the tower block many of whom are elderly. Read on for the full horrifying story.

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Thanet tops for the wrong things

Written by Matt B · first published 01/01/2009

Normally you would have to be subscribed to a very special mailing to get all the juicy Thanet news tid-bits before they get blogged but just this once I'm blogging this one first.

Thanet ranks in a most unpleasant top 10. Make of that what you will.

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