It was taken over by Jason Gratton, who’d been running the pavilion in Oaken Grove Park for seven years. Work to improve this ‘trouble spot’ mini roundabout promised seven months of disruption. Such blights usually cause residents to ask ‘Where does my council tax go?’ – and they would have especially wondered this at the beginning of the year. A war of words raged over council tax and the RBWM’s (ultimately doomed) proposal to put it up by a whopping 25 per cent. Council tax wasn’t the only tax on people’s minds.

Source: Express December 25, 2025 06:02 UTC