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IMPROVEMENT

EXCLUSIVE: £1.6m bill for intervention support

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2026

Councils under Government intervention have shelled out more than £1.6m on staff and consultants ...

FINANCE

Exceptional financial support transparency call

By Dan Peters | 10 February 2026

The Conservative opposition leader of Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole (BCP) Council has calle...

FINANCE

Reform UK budget defeated

By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026

A budget proposing a 3.89% council tax increase by Warwickshire CC’s minority Reform UK administr...

FINANCE

Coventry axes annual festival to save cash

By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026

Coventry City Council has taken the ‘difficult decision’ not to run its three-day annual music an...

FINANCE

City council requests £15m exceptional financial support

By Dan Peters | 06 February 2026

Brighton & Hove City Council has requested £15m of exceptional financial support (EFS) from the M...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Cross-party talks after Bedford budget rejected

By Dan Peters | 05 February 2026

The leader of Bedford BC’s Conservative minority administration has pledged to ‘keep working with...

MENTAL HEALTH

Government fails on mental health funding pledge

By Exclusive by Dan Peters | 21 January 2026

The Government has failed to directly fund a pledge to give 60% of pupils access to a mental heal...

FINANCE

Epsom & Ewell mulls suing leisure operator

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2026

Epsom & Ewell BC has ‘retained legal expert support’ as it considers suing the former operator of...

HOUSING

Reed hails housing starts increase

By Dan Peters | 16 January 2026

The number of new build starts in the year ending September 2025 has increased by 18% compared to...

POLICY AND POLITICS

Cotton piles pressure on West Midlands Police chief to stand down

By Dan Peters | 15 January 2026

Birmingham City Council’s Labour leader John Cotton has called for the chief constable of West Mi...

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