19.10.22
Local Power
Tribunal decision comes after three-year battle by the council to maintain secrecy over its public investments
15.09.22
The Bureau has raised serious questions over where £138 million of public money has gone
02.09.22
A three-year investigation by the Bureau revealed apparent gaping holes in investments made by Thurrock council that threaten to cost the public hundreds of millions of pounds
21.07.22
The Bureau’s requests for information about Thurrock council’s £1bn borrowing and investment strategy were rejected
15.07.22
A three-year investigation by the Bureau, hampered at virtually every stage by Thurrock council, can reveal apparent gaping holes in investments that threaten to cost the public hundreds of millions o...
28.04.22
The desperately underfunded special educational needs and disabilities system is having grave consequences for young people and plunging councils further into record debt
19.04.21
More questions for Thurrock council after judge cites "unsatisfactory" evidence from controversial businessman to whom it gave £420m
17.03.21
The Bureau has won its challenge against Thurrock council's refusal to reveal what it has borrowed and where it has invested almost £1bn of public money
17.12.20
Thurrock council poured taxpayers' millions into energy company that used cash to set up credit business
18.11.20
Thurrock council, which borrowed millions from other councils to invest in solar energy, is now relying on government money from the Public Works Loan Board to repay its lenders
06.11.20
The case revolves around a deal for 19 solar farms between Toucan Energy Holdings, owned by Liam Kavanagh, and Wirsol, an energy business
22.10.20
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is going to a tribunal to force Thurrock council to release key details of how it has invested huge sums of taxpayers’ money
17.10.20
Rockfire Capital, the company at the centre of the Bureau’s investigation into Thurrock council’s investment spree, has gone into voluntary liquidation just as another business owned by the same man f...
09.10.20
KPMG has refused to sign off Spelthorne council's accounts and suggested it could take the local authority to court over borrowing and investments in commercial property
10.07.20
Council has continued to invest in renewable energy but the process lacks transparency
25.06.20
Spelthorne borough council, which borrowed £1bn to spend on commercial property investments, has allowed a major tenant to put off paying millions in rent
10.06.20
After the Bureau exposed the council's risky investment strategy, Conservative councillors have voted to replace their leader
22.05.20
Thurrock council has borrowed more than £1bn from other local authorities
A business that marketed itself as an investment opportunity for local authorities has used taxpayers’ money to propel itself to the fore in the UK’s solar energy market
21.05.20
The Bureau has spent two years digging into council finances and found many had borrowed billions of pounds of public money to invest in commercial property
