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If you're not up to speed on Houchen and the Tees Valley scandal, here's some weekend reading, free, courtesy of Private Eye. It baffles me how they are still milking this massively fraudulent enterprise.

https://www.private-eye.co.uk/special-reports/stripped-tees

IT WAS to be the UK’s largest regeneration scheme in decades, a model for regional devolution and the flagship post-Brexit freeport. But the redevelopment of the former steelworks on the south bank of the RiverTees became little more than an unlawful, taxpayer-funded scheme to promote the political career of a Tory golden boy and vastly enrich a couple of local businessmen and their families, all hidden in a web of deception. In the process, it is financially imperilling a major regional development body and squandering the chance to revive one of the country’s most deprived but industrially promising areas. This is how it happened...