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Jonathan Werran is head of news at Localis

Ministers have defended the coalition’s progress in releasing cash for local growth projects, fol...

Public satisfaction has barely dropped despite councils facing 40% funding cutbacks, according to...

Penrith MP Rory Stewart is indubitably this column’s favourite hyper-localist and philosopher-king.

Politicians should ‘get off the backs of civil servants and recognise their value and professiona...

Public satisfaction has barely dropped despite councils facing 40% funding cutbacks, according to...

DCLG cash sweetener to close the funding gap between urban and rural authorities dismissed as too...

NHS Trust Development Authority supremo raises further fears about the dangers to health budgets ...

Council bosses, trade unions and health and social care experts have today launched a revised set...

Sound advice grates on the ear, the saying goes.

Whitehall mandarins fear the civil service’s political impartiality could be under threat, an inf...