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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 £32,000,000 Cowes Enterprise College needs more cash from the council coffers to complete the project and rectify defects in the new building.
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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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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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The Danish company behind the new Cowes Enterprise College blames unexpected costs for post-completion work on several projects for the decision to wind up company
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An independent inspection of Cowes Enterprise College by the Education Funding Agency found the Council underperformed initially, but appears to be getting things sorted now.
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The council say the news will have no impact on Cowes Enterprise College moving into the new building from 9th September.
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Yet another delay for pupils and teachers hoping to move into new buildings after half term. No proposed date has been given.
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Cllr George Brown rebuffs question asking if council knew of legal action between contractors on the Cowes project, leading to one of them stopping work on the job. Call for Undercliff-type inquiry followed.
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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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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?
