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A council could be set to splash £3 million of taxpayers’ cash on a “disgusting” town centre multi-storey car park scrawled in graffiti. Thanet District Council could stump up the eye-watering sum to acquire Ramsgate’s Royal Harbour Car Park as it looks to balance its books in the future. The authority currently leases the foreboding concrete building off Leopold Street, which has 394 spaces charged at £1.60 an hour. But it could soon snap up the four-storey site after earmarking the hefty sum from capital funding, official papers say. When quizzed, a council spokesperson denied bosses were fu…

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