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Cash-strapped council chiefs in Southampton have failed to recover £50,000 of taxpayers' money spent settling a bitter dispute over the city's largest mosque, the Daily Echo can reveal.
As the Medina Mosque is plunged into a new £3.3m legal dispute, it has emerged that the city council decided not to recover the costs of a High Court case to determine which of two rival factions of the Muslim community had the right to the building's freehold.
The council believes that its costs to sort out the Mosque ownership dispute, including around 200 hours of officer time, ran to around £50,000.