Lambeth fights cuts

The Con-Dem cuts coalition was quick off the mark to announce big reductions in council services: £537 million from grants to local authorities, £311 million from funding for schools, £309 million from transport budgets. If you want to see how this billion pound bomb could impact on your town, take a look at Lambeth in south London.

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Lambeth Council's public consultation sham

Lambeth Council says that it is consulting over its plans for it to become a "John Lewis style partnership".

But it appears that its consultation is not quite the public exercise – in fact the public will have little say.

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