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Following a tumultuous debate between councillors over who controls the parish website, mass resignations have arisen, more than $100,000 worth of community assets have been frozen, and a police investigation has left small villages disarray
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September 25, 2023
The extraordinary incident in idyllic Spooner Row in Norfolk has sparked mass resignations by councillors, a bitter leaflet movement, brickbats being scattered on an online notice board, and even a police probe. Experts from South Norfolk Council, the Norfolk Association of Local Councils, and Norfolk Parish Training Services have been called in, but no one has been able to quell the bad blood. Since the ongoing controversy, £102,000 in community funds are unaccounted for, while locals fear the'shambles' mean they are not properly represented. Cllr Robert Foster, who designed the council's website and is able to view all his coworkers' emails, is at the center of the controversy. Fellow councillors begged him to hand over the admin passwords to them, but he refused, arguing that he has the right to know who is in possession of the control's communications officer. Members reacted in an email with no answer in sight, and chairman Sue Hewitson said she felt like an abused victim.'