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A former district councillor said she feels vindicated this week after West Berkshire Council finally righted a “moral and ethical” wrong. It was back in 2019 that the Newbury Weekly News first reported how former council leader Gordon Lundie accused his own authority of allowing a Lambourn builder to unwittingly face financial ruin. Roger McCabe, the developer of The Malt Shovel pub in the village, was exempt from having to pay a £60,000 Community Infrastructure Levy (CIL) to the council – so long as he filled in the right forms before a deadline. But the council never warned its constituent …

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