Bankrupt Labour-run council spent £28k on HQ's plants which 'are now dying'

A BANKRUPT council is embroiled in a row over 200 plants it bought to promote 'staff health and wellbeing', and can now not afford to water anymore.

for its £41million Observatory House headquarters when it moved in 2019. It spent £28,000 on them but they are now"dying" because of a £760m borrowing debt which forced them to terminate a contract for watering them, council leader James Swindlehurst said.Mr Swindlehurst said he has been watering the plants himself.

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