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BUSINESS

Airport windfall for 10 councils

By Dan Peters | 28 July 2015

Greater Manchester’s 10 councils will receive a portion of a £60m dividend for being shareholders...

FINANCE

East Cheshire poised to create arm's-length firm

By Jamie Hailstone | 28 July 2015

Cheshire East Council is set to create a local authority-owned company to help boost skills and j...

HEALTH

Cornwall devolution 'could provide blueprint'

By Dan Peters | 15 July 2015

Cornwall councillors have backed proposals to make an agreement with the Government to secure mor...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Transformative conversations

By Neil Gibson | 14 July 2015

Creating meaningful partnerships between councils and their communities requires honest dialogue ...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Disaster planning in a brave new world

By Richard Stokoe | 01 July 2015

New technologies are rapidly changing the nature of disaster management and local authorities mus...

FINANCE

Cardiff restructures senior management team

01 July 2015

The City of Cardiff Council has completed its latest senior management team restructure that will...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Croydon hires two executive directors

17 June 2015

Croydon LBC has appointed two executive directors and a new director as part of a restructure.

BUSINESS

Council drops Norse Group deal

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 June 2015

Middlesbrough Council’s new directly-elected mayor has dropped plans to transfer a new number of ...

BUSINESS

Inter-county waste deal gets four-year extension

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 June 2015

An inter-county deal, which sees some of Norfolk’s waste dealt with at Suffolk CC’s new energy-fr...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Three counties' CA alliance plans 'quietly dropped'

By Dan Peters | 27 May 2015

Three counties seeking devolved powers to boost economic growth have quietly dropped the idea of ...