Title
HUMOUR
Getting into a pickle
16 December 2014
Anyone thinking of taking up a new sport in the post-Christmas haze should look no further than C...
FINANCE
Tories split as Pickles fights for 1% referendum cap
By Dan Peters | 16 December 2014
Local authorities are facing a Christmas headache if Eric Pickles wins an internal party row to s...
FINANCE
Raise police precept to save services
By MJ reporter | 03 December 2014
Surrey’s police and crime commissioner has said he plans to introduce a referendum-triggering 24%...
ERIC PICKLES
Call for further Pickles intervention in Tower Hamlets
By Dan Peters | 01 December 2014
Communities secretary Eric Pickles has been urged to intervene in Tower Hamlets LBC’s arrangement...
HUMOUR
Anti-social media
25 November 2014
‘There are no second acts in American lives,’ observed Jazz-era novelist F Scott Fitzgerald.
WHITEHALL
Let councils write their own job specs
By Heather Jameson | 18 November 2014
Central government needs to massively scale back on statutory duties and give councils the chance...
LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION
Tower Hamlets cautions Pickles over intervention
By Dan Peters | 18 November 2014
Communities secretary Eric Pickles is facing calls to scale back the proposed powers of the commi...
PAY
Does Nigeria have the answer to devolution?
18 November 2014
It’s not just in the UK where devolution is a hot topic, y’know?
DCLG
Call for right to eject problem councillors
By Mark Conrad | 18 November 2014
Leaders at Wigan MBC have called for powers to force by-elections in order to kick-out troublesom...
WHITEHALL
Tower Hamlets loses legal battle
By Jamie Hailstone | 17 November 2014
A High Court judge has thrown out a second attempt by Tower Hamlets LBC to fight government moves...
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