Labour split over council's unitary bid

By MJ Correspondent | 23 July 2014

Labour councillors in Lancashire are going head-to-head over a borough council’s bid to break away from County Hall.

A referendum on Chorley BC becoming a unitary could be held as early as next May after the council’s Labour leader Cllr Alistair Bradley argued local services were ‘best provided by local people within our borough’.

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