Private Eye - Rotten Councils

TOP STORIES IN THE LATEST ISSUE: - SOUTHWARK: Déjà-vu as fire destroys 31 properties just four months after the Lakanal House inferno. - CORNWALL: All aboard the Prince of Wales’s Penzance carbuncle! - TOWER HAMLETS: How many residents want an elected mayor? About half the number of names that appear on a petition calling for one… - WESTMINSTER: How long will the council hold on to its new finance director – so in-demand she has 52 resigned directorships under her belt? - DARLINGTON: The experiment that left the council looking like, ahem, ‘sorrowful wankers’. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/sections.php?section_link=rotten_boroughs&