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FINANCE

'Remember us up North,' says leader'

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016

The leader of Rochdale BC has called on the Government to remember the Northern Powerhouse post-B...

HEALTH

STPs: 'naive NHS' recipe for disaster'

By Jamie Hailstone | 06 July 2016

Proposals to reform health services through sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) are a ...

HUMAN RESOURCES

Council to change employment terms after shock departure

By Mark Whitehead | 06 July 2016

Bolton MBC is expected to change the terms of appointment for top jobs in the wake of its former ...

WHITEHALL

£80m fund opened to tackle social issues

By Mark Whitehead | 06 July 2016

The Government has opened an £80m fund for applications to support an initiative aimed at tacklin...

WHITEHALL

Clark demands clarity amid threat of EU funds 'madness'

06 July 2016

Communities secretary Greg Clark will press his government bosses to confirm ‘as quickly as possi...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Casey: Rebuilding trust is vital to sector success

By Dan Peters | 06 July 2016

A new deal between the public and politicians is needed to rebuild trust, extremism tsar Louise C...

HUMOUR

White Van Man ... after the EU referendum

06 July 2016

They should do a TV show with that bloke Lord Sugar who used to sell computers with green screens...

Forging Osborne's legacy

06 July 2016

Looking back in a few years, George Osborne’s legacy may well be to have injected life into some ...

LOCAL GOVERNMENT ASSOCIATION

Living la vida Mocha

06 July 2016

On top of Brexit woe, England football’s woeful Icelandic saga and enough political treachery to ...

HUMOUR

Game on in Oxfordshire

06 July 2016

It’s no secret that when county councils and their districts fall out over the thorny issue of re...