5 October - The SidcupTStoryTeller. More bad news
For
readers interested in Sidcup’s StoryTeller cinema, which is presumably not many
or Bexley Council would not have had to subsidise it with a five figure sum each
month, a little more information has come to light since the subject was featured here last weekend.
The London Centric website
has had a little more to say (third item on their list) about the cinema owner Preston Benson. He is blaming constant Council
interventions on his difficulties although it is Southwark that is singled out
for special mention rather than Bexley, but bureaucrats will nearly always interfere
with private enterprise given the chance. On the other hand maybe Bexley
Council did not poke their noses into the Really Local Group’s affairs as much
as they should before getting into bed with an almost unknown outfit offering
what turned out to be Fool’s Gold.
In more bad news, the employment practices at the StoryTeller’s sister screen known as Peckham Levels
(Southwark) were condemned by a judge and revealed by
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. (Click to find it on the web.)
The owner provided “inconsistent testimony” but Bexley Council continues to act as if
it still has every confidence in him.