{"id":91893,"date":"2019-05-07T15:51:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/05\/07\/east-london-council-claims-victory-with-deal-on-natwest-loans\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T15:51:40","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T13:51:40","slug":"east-london-council-claims-victory-with-deal-on-natwest-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=91893","title":{"rendered":"East London council claims victory with deal on NatWest loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newham expects to save \u00a3143m in interest payments that can now go towards servicesNewham council is claiming victory after striking a deal with NatWest over \u00a3150m in high-cost bank loans that it says will save millions of pounds and enable it to boost spending on local services.The beleaguered east London authority said it expected to save up to \u00a3143m in interest payments over the remaining 41 years of the contract \u2013 or \u00a33.5m per year \u2013 as a result of the deal. It also avoids a full-blown lawsuit, with Newham having withdrawn a high court claim against NatWest\u2019s parent company, Royal Bank of Scotland. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/may\/07\/east-london-council-newham-claims-victory-deal-natwest-loans\" target=\"_blank\">East London council claims victory with deal on NatWest loans<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newham expects to save \u00a3143m in interest payments that can now go towards servicesNewham council is claiming victory after striking a deal with NatWest over \u00a3150m in high-cost bank loans that it says will save millions of pounds and enable it to boost spending on local services.The beleaguered east London [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}