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Two years after a payment of over half a million pounds was paid by a council employee to Pihl, a bankrupt company, the court has made their final ruling on what happens to the money.
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Yesterday OnTheWight straight-reported a publicly available document about a proposed Hampshire-wide Combined Authority with a questioning headline. It looks like the Leader of the Isle of Wight council didn't like that. We wonder why all of this wasn't public to start with?
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The council say they're pursuing the £500,000+ that was 'paid in error', but fail to mention that a court ruled in April that at least £152,000 had been swallowed up and would not be recovered. Why?
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Nine months on and the cash-strapped council appears to be no closer to recovering the £500,000+ paid in error to a bankrupt company.
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Following a council officer error, when over half a million pounds was paid to a bankrupt company, the Isle of Wight council are in the process of recovering the money through the courts. The latest hearing has been adjourned until 16th March. Prospective parliamentary candidate Iain McKie shares his views on the situation.
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The payment was made in error to a bankrupt company after the officer had been tasked with making sure any outstanding purchase orders were cancelled.
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The hearing to recover the money paid in error to a bankrupt company has been delayed by six weeks.
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A council officer was tasked with making sure public money didn't go a company that went bankrupt over a year ago. Instead they paid them over half a million pounds.
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Rachael Fidler responds to claims she made a “blatant falsehood” at Monday night's public meeting and says she'd happily attend a scrutiny committee meeting or fair public forum to help clear up any misconceptions.
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The former council officer, Janet Newton, who jointly oversaw the CEC construction project has chosen OnTheWight to deliver her response to recent comments made by David Pugh and Rachael Fidler, as well as lay out key details of her involvement with the construction.
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The Isle of Wight Council’s Executive is to make recommendations to Full Council about investing in the completion of Cowes Enterprise College when it meets on Tuesday 6 May.
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The £32,000,000 Cowes Enterprise College needs more cash from the council coffers to complete the project and rectify defects in the new building.
