STC
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Two STC Full Council Meetings — April 2026 Report
STC just beat another record. They achieved a 300% increase in meeting frequency in April 2026 compared to 2025. Three…
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STC councillors attendance in 2025
It took me an insane amount of time to make heads and tails of STC’s attendance record for 2025. But…
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Freedom of Information Act – Ignored, Neglected, Broken
At the last electors’ meeting, I asked why the Town Clerk of STC never responds to Freedom of Information Act…
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LABOUR PARTY IS SCARED
Labour Party councillors chose to ignore STC’s own Co-option Policy and handled the process differently, not only from the established…
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Tax rise 2026 – part 2
Today’s article presents the most interesting information about the town’s finances discussed at the last precept meeting of STC. I…
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!!! 147% increase in payments to pellet delivery contractor
The pellet scandal just got new colours! This enormous increase happened after I lost my seat at STC. A 147%…
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STC Finances in Trouble? Full Council Report (14 Jan 2026)
I feel torn after the last STC Full Council meeting. On one hand, you cannot deny that having an STC…
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STC 2026 shenanigans begin!
Less than ten days before the scheduled Finance & Growth Committee meeting, the Town Clerk cancelled it and convened a…
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8 out of 9 candidates co-opted. One rejected.
Care to guess who was rejected? I won’t keep you in suspense — me. Am I disappointed? Yes and no.…
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SHIREBROOK TOWN COUNCIL COLLAPSED – THIRD CHAIR RESIGNED
Yet another Chair of STC has resigned. Sarah Brooks is now the third Leader of Council this year to abandon…
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Employment of Close Relatives in STC
I’m trying to prepare for the co-option process as best as I possibly can. So I went onto the Town…
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Abandon the ship… I mean STC!
I thought the era of meetings being adjourned by the Chair had passed. I believed that, despite a few stumbles…
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TURBULENT TIMES AT STC – CIC AND WAVE OF RESIGNATIONS
STC was supposedly not going to hold any meetings “in the near future”, yet this week alone saw three of…
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LIEbour Turned Independent – AGM Reconvened
Hell has frozen over: Labour has chosen someone who is not a Labour councillor as the new STC leader and…
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Drama in Two Acts – STC AGM 2025
Ladies and gentlemen, the 2025 STC AGM ended with a shouting match, another scandal, a wave of resignations, and… the…
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END OF A DARK ERA – COUNCILLOR CHRIS KANE IS GONE!
Chris Kane submitted a resignation letter, which was read at the Full STC meeting on April 9th, 2025. In his…
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This Red Wall Looks Shoddy
The photo I’m attaching below shows a wall in the Crematorium under construction—notice how crooked it is. The picture comes…
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STC councillor’s attendance problem
Town Clerk of STC, Jennifer Jeffery, once again neglecting her duties and breaking the law. The Local Government Act 1972,…
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Tree felling SCANDAL and STC Personnel Committee
Almost no one in Town knows- STC is in deep trouble. It’s time you found out about it. I am…
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Money, money, money 2023
27% pay rise for the brother of the Town Clerk, Town Clerk and ALL other civil servants (28 of them?)…
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I made a fortunate mistake!
I want to apologise to the Shirebrook community for misrepresenting the facts that transpired at the STC precept meeting and…
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BREAKING NEWS: Cllr Chris Kane is under BDC investigation!!!
It happened! The Monitoring Officer, after consultation with the Independent Person, sent me a file of documents, among which I…
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STC councillors attendance in 2022
This year’s Shirebrook247 editorial series begins with a summary of STC councillor attendance at ‘scheduled meetings’ in 2022. This is…
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NEW DRUG in Shirebrook! Report from Full Council 14.12.2022
I want to welcome you to my last article in 2022. The following Monday falls on the second day of…
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The heating scandal is getting hotter (OPComm)
As I went to the Operations Committee meeting on the 29th of September 2022, I thought the highlight of the…
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STC electricity bill- yet another puzzle!
What you see below is the bill for the electricity used in the STC buildings…. or rather for its production….…
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Leisure Comm and Full Council meetings report
Today’s article is unusual because I simultaneously present reports from two STC meetings. We will start with the report of…
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STC heating scandal still not explained
The seven-page report produced by Civil Servants on energy consumption in STC buildings was completely ignored at the last STC…
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SCANDAL and SCANDAL and one more SCANDAL
The last Full Council meeting of STC ended up with three scandals. At this point of the month, usually, I…
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Orwell was right…
At first glance, the recent STC Operations Committee (OC) meeting lacked exciting developments. Yet, something happened in one of the…
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