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Schools miss out on £1m flood aid

20 August 2008

Schools in Gloucestershire missed out on £1m of flood relief funding from the Government because...

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Manchester Owed £37.5M in unpaid council tax

20 August 2008

Manchester City Council is owed £37.5m in unpaid council tax, the authority has revealed.

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Council pension funds launch legal fight over US bank liability

20 August 2008

Two local government pension funds have launched legal action against a giant US investment bank,...

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Money matters

20 August 2008

‘It’s not like that in the private sector.’ I recall that comment being made to me during my firs...

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Healey comes clean over expenses

14 August 2008

Local government minister, John Healey, has become the first member of the Government to publish ...

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Councils look to the futures in fuel quest

14 August 2008

Local authorities this week intensified plans to bulk-buy oil on the futures markets, after some ...

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Freedom watchdog in clash over revealing top salaries

14 August 2008

Information watchdogs this week hit back in an escalating row with town halls over the disclosure...

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Essex councils boost local firms with £580m spend

13 August 2008

Councils in Essex are boosting their local economies by spending £580m with small businesses ever...

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Money matters

12 August 2008

It seems that hardly a day goes by without being confronted by forecasts of doom and gloom over t...

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Flood families' council tax waived

08 August 2008