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Council’s u-turn over tax bill for cancer sufferer

Karen Britton
19/ 3/2008

A CASH-strapped couple have won their battle to get a council tax payment extension to help with cancer treatment.

Part-time van driver Keith Hampton, 62, and sick wife Lesley, 50 – who has had to give up work for daily radiotherapy at Christie Hospital – were originally denied one-month’s leeway on their bill.


 

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   You are assuming the Council were told about this ladies illness. Could the reporter have withheld that fact? Surely not. The spokesperson's comments speak volumes. Yet another wonderfully unbiased Council story.
Prospero
26/03/2008 at 19:38
   This article does not deserve snide point scoring comments like this. You should be ashamed, and it says a great deal about you.

To the Councils credit they did have a change of heart, but then the article did say that the couple "have won their battle". There should have been no battle, just early copassion would have sufficed.

Big K
26/03/2008 at 11:11
   Can't wait for the inevitable insightful comments on the competency of the Council from other commenters here ;-)
MaccForum.co.uk
19/03/2008 at 18:57
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