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Four Wheel Drive Woman on flooding

07 January 2014

Tarquin, get your wellies on, angel, we’re off to visit grandpa.

DCLG's Star treatment

07 January 2014

DCLG watchers should look out for a marked decline in productivity at the department.

Eric's always delivering

07 January 2014

A local government journalist’s life is not a happy one.

A Christmas message from Pickles

07 January 2014

Memo from: Secretary of State

Council wanted to bring the house down

07 January 2014

A salutary lesson in the future of planning regulations has come to Diary’s attention from our go...

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Defra flooded with Environment Agency job cut protests

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2014

A civil service trade union has called for a freeze on further job cuts in the Environment Agency.

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'Localism betrayed' by police settlement top-slicing

By Jonathan Werran | 07 January 2014

Plans to top-slice funding in next year’s provisional police settlement betray a lack of confiden...

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Council tax referendum threshold to be 'lot less than 2%'

By MJ Correspondent | 07 January 2014

The Government will fix the council tax referendum threshold at ‘a lot less than 2%’, the chairma...

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Call for better data on pension fund performance

By MJ Correspondent | 07 January 2014

London Councils has called on poor-performing local government pension funds to publicly explain ...

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Investment fund will bring new homes

By MJ Correspondent | 07 January 2014

An ‘innovative’ model that will finance the building of more than 240 homes has been boosted with...