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Sold for a loss: Another bad deal by the Mackintosh regime

Northampton Borough Council sold the bus depot for a £200,000 loss to Church's on the same day it bought it

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Aug 05, 2021
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By Sarah Ward

Former Northampton Borough Council Leader David Mackintosh. Pic Kirsty Edmonds

West Northamptonshire Council has revealed that its predecessor council did a property deal with shoe firm Church's that led to it shelling out more than £227,000 of taxpayer cash to help the private company.

The back-to-back deal in April 2014, in which the coun…

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