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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Rowena Mason Whitehall editor

Give back taxpayers’ cash for failed ‘fun factory’, Hastings MP tells Tory donor

Lubov Chernukhin walking out of a revolving door
Lubov Chernukhin in 2018. She has donated more than £2m to the Conservatives since 2014. Photograph: Guilhem Baker/LNP

The Conservative donor Lubov Chernukhin is facing calls to hand back £150,000 of taxpayer cash given to her company to help fund a “fun factory” and amusement arcade in Hastings that closed after less than a year.

Helena Dollimore, the Labour MP for Hastings and Rye, said the town now “wants its money back” after the venture known as Owens failed, leaving a depressing boarded-up shopfront dominating the high street.

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