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Council Forgets To Pay Leccy Bill
Photo / vial3tt3r Lambeth council has been hit with an eye-watering £280,000 bill after it failed to pay for the electricity used on thousands of unmetered street lamps over a six-year period. Since 2004 the council has not paid an annual sum of £94,000 for energy used to power the lights; the total should be nearly £600,000 but EDF Energy have cut the council a deal and written off half the ...

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Allegations Lambeth Council leader Steve Reed breached the code of conduct for elected members for his behaviour towards a defecting councillor will be considered today by a town hall standard's committee.

Council ‘forgets’ £658,000 electricity bill for street lights
A London council is facing an unpaid electricity bill of more than half a million pounds after it forgot to charge customers for seven years.

Musician creates bridge symphony
Christopher Tappin, 63, from Orpington, faces 35 years in jail if co... Matthew Scutt with partner Ayse Sabuncu and son Emre and taxi driver... Congratulations to Lambeth’s GCSE, AS and A-level students and their teachers...

Poverty affects white pupils the hardest
Poverty has a much bigger impact on the performance of white British pupils than on any other ethnic group according to studies.

Fantasy baseball injury report: Jose Reyes' injuries will continue until the end of the season
There is no avoiding the fact that Fantasy sports are subject to luck. No one can predict, with any certainty, the health of athletes. Did anyone guess Jacoby Ellsbury would fracture his ribs in a collision with his own teammate, and miss the majority of the year? Of course not. Do I need to remind anyone about Tom Brady and the first game of 2008? Not a chance.

Sports at 11:50 a.m. EDT
Some of the stories the AP is covering Thursday. A full Sports Digest will move by 3 p.m.: -- NEW YORK -- Ben Roethlisberger's suspension is cut from six to four games by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, meaning the Pittsburgh Steelers' quarterback can return Oct. 17 against Cleveland. -- UNDATED -- Twelve players from North Carolina won't play in the 18th-ranked Tar Heels' opener...

Chains try to score with fantasy football players
Fantasy football means real business for restaurants, and some big chains have launched promotional drives to score with dedicated players of the growing pastime. Free appetizers, draft kits, meal discounts, gift cards and contests featuring sports celebrities are among lures for "draft parties" in which fantasy players select rosters of NFL players whose talents on the field equal...

Nationals' Nyjer Morgan enrages baseball by violating The Code
There's an ebb and flow to baseball's unwritten rules, much like there's an ebb and flow to the game itself over the course of a game or a season. Weeks can pass with hardly a peep about players disrespecting each other, followed closely by a spate of incidents involving spiteful actions, retaliation and, sometimes, fisticuffs.

Swimming-Olympic champion Liu to miss Asian Games
China's Olympic swimming champion Liu Zige will skip November's Asian Games to concentrate on next year's world championships, Chinese swimming officials said.