Leisure

By Alistair Jones | 13 August 2019

Boris Johnson has promised to grant more powers to local government, but has been silent on how t...

CULTURE

Union 'bewildered' by backing of city of culture bid

By Martin Ford | 31 July 2019

Bradford City Council has come under fire after backing a campaign to become the UK’s city of cul...

LOCAL DEMOCRACY

Leave those kids alone

By Claire Fox | 30 July 2019

Claire Fox says councils continue to thwart kids’ play activities in the interests of bureaucracy

WHITEHALL

Brum tourist tax call from ex-ministers

By Dan Peters | 22 July 2019

Former ministers have called for a tourist tax to be trialled in Birmingham to help fund the Comm...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Time for a UK-wide debate on tourism levies

By Cllr Judith Blake | 02 July 2019

Cities south of the border including Birmingham have plans to consider tourism levies. Cllr Judit...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Driving ahead with a new cultural and tourism strategy

By Sheila Oxtoby | 18 June 2019

Great Yarmouth BC is finalising a new strategy aligning its tourism and cultural offers, says She...

PLANNING

Planning permission for council sports centre quashed

By Martin Ford | 10 June 2019

Elmbridge BC may be forced to demolish its multi-million pound sports hub after a High Court judg...

Poo are you kidding?

28 May 2019

Diary was zapped back to the Mesozoic era this week after coming across a council’s mischievous c...

FINANCE

Welcome to Yorkshire chair resigns as expenses investigations begin

By Martin Ford | 18 April 2019

The board chairman of a Yorkshire tourism body has resigned following an expenses scandal that ha...

FINANCE

Doubts over new taxes to fund Commonwealth Games

By Martin Ford | 15 April 2019

New forms of tax are unlikely to fill a £40m hole in funding for the Commonwealth Games budget, c...

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