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Leeds gets the X-Factor

28 October 2014

It’s that time of year again when The MJ newsdesk gets overwhelmed with invites to the switching ...

REORGANISATION

Name check rain check?

28 October 2014

Until now, South Park has been a fictional town in Colorado famous for the repeated killing of Ke...

WHITEHALL

Eric's Russian around

28 October 2014

For a secretary of state whose strident, if increasingly incoherent tirades against too frequentl...

FINANCE

Translators required!

28 October 2014

According to tabloid reports last week, council reports are harder to understand than Stephen Haw...

FINANCE

Hammersmith and Fulham calls time on bi-borough chief role

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC has pulled out of shared chief executive arrangements with West London...

HEALTH

Call for national mental health prevention strategy

By Dan Peters | 28 October 2014

The next government should introduce a national strategy to ensure councils work to prevent menta...

WHITEHALL

Ministers to outline 'boomerang boss' payout curbs

By Jonathan Werran | 28 October 2014

Ministers will today announce further details of laws aimed at preventing senior council managers...

HEALTH

NCAS 2014: Councils issue social care funding warning

By Jamie Hailstone | 28 October 2014

Councils will face a £4.3bn funding black hole by the end of the decade, according to town hall c...

FINANCE

Adonis calls for Tri-boroughs to have their own chiefs

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 October 2014

Hammersmith and Fulham LBC should have its own chief executive, according to an independent revie...

BUSINESS

Pickles to block supermarket tax

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 October 2014

Communities secretary Eric Pickles has announced he will not support extra business rates on supe...