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ECONOMIC GROWTH

The dog that's yet to bark in the EU debate

By Michael Burton | 25 February 2016

Local government has a key role in the EU, enacting 70% of its legislation, and yet has barely fe...

FINANCE

Nottingham's streetwise winner

By Michael Burton | 22 December 2015

Nottingham City Council’s commercial and neighbourhood services won Best Council Services Team ca...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Should Birmingham be broken up?

By Heather Jameson | 20 November 2015

Heather Jameson examines calls for Birmingham City Council to be shrunk into 10 smaller local aut...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Glasgow bin lorry crash driver resigns before disciplinary

By Thomas Bridge | 02 November 2015

The driver of a bin lorry that crashed into pedestrians in Glasgow last year, killing six people,...

BUSINESS

Council fights to keep waste contract details confidential

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 October 2015

Gloucestershire CC has warned a ruling forcing it to publish details of a £500m incinerator contr...

FINANCE

Council trials Britain's first monthly bin collection

By Thomas Bridge | 24 September 2015

A council has become the first in Britain to trial monthly bin collections, despite historic gove...

BUSINESS

Waste service expansion

22 September 2015

A £50,000 Rural Development Fund grant from East Lindsey DC has allowed Greenaway Green Waste Ser...

WASTE

White Van Man on . . . combined authorities

10 September 2015

Don’t ask me for the name of my local council, or what it does or what it’s for, or how it spends...

FINANCE

E.T. comes home

10 September 2015

As everyone gears up for the proverbial elephant in the room that is the forthcoming Spending Rev...

FINANCE

When prevention is the cure

By Will Tuckley | 10 September 2015

Prevention is better than cure – if it is approached in a businesslike fashion, according to Will...