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Councils likely to recover frozen Iceland cash soon

26 May 2009

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Money Matters

18 May 2009

There is a book I read to my five-year-old daughter entitled A squash and a squeeze, which portra...

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Overhaul for bus pass powers

18 May 2009

The Department for Transport has proposed transferring responsibility for concessionary bus trave...

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Glasgow faces up to threat of £100m cuts

18 May 2009

Glasgow City Council, Scotland’s largest local authority, could be forced to make £100m of cuts n...

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Housing benefits under pressure as slump claims victims

18 May 2009

Ministers are likely to seek ‘cost-cutting or cost neutral’ changes to housing benefit (HB) later...

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Civil Service 'riddled with gender pay inequalities'

18 May 2009

Whitehall is riddled with the same pay inequalities as local government, with the difference betw...

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UK public bodies 'among worst' for paying bills

18 May 2009

UK public bodies are among the worst in Europe for paying their invoices on time, costing the eco...

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No more 'negligent'

14 May 2009

Last week, Havering LBC launched its bid to get the Audit Commission to make a U-turn over its de...

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Councils urged to drive new jobs to beat slump

14 May 2009

Councils must take the lead on job creation in a bid to help push the country out of recession, l...

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Yorkshire grit

08 May 2009

Yorkshire’s cities have become more ‘economically resilient’ in the last 10 years, according to n...