ANY theft by a worker from an employer is rightly viewed as serious by the courts.
When that employer is the city council and the employee is a senior officer, the abuse of a position of trust dealing with taxpayers' money is compounded.
Bintu Tijani siphoned of more than £100,000 from the council's children's services departmen
t budget with an elaborate scam involving fraudulent invoices from imaginary companies.
Jailing Bintu Tijani for two years, Recorder Peter Rouch QC has sent a very clear message to people trusted to be responsible for handling the city's finances.
Read the full storyTalking about regenerationTHE talking is over and now it is time to deliver the regeneration.
Bold words indeed from city council leader John Peach as plans for the demolition of the Corn Exchange building and the redevelopment of that part of the city centre.
He is right: Talk is cheap - but there has been so much of it the people of Peterborough could be excused for being sceptical.
The creation of a new public square should be the first visual sign of the city's long-awaited regeneration.
It might come at a cost to tenants of the Corn Exchange, but once there is tangible evidence of redevelopment, the people of Peterborough will get on board and give it their support.
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