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BUSINESS

Property leg-up

26 June 2013

Plymouth City Council has joined forces with RENTplus to offer people on the housing register a c...

BUSINESS

Site stimulates growth

26 June 2013

Local firms have won more work with Surrey CC through its BuildSurrey website in the first six mo...

BUSINESS

Energy partnership

26 June 2013

The energy company E.ON is pledging to work with local authorities in making homes more energy-ef...

FINANCE

Oldham 'fastest to file accounts'

26 June 2013

Oldham MBC has raced to file its annual accounts for 2012/13 in a record-breaking 61 days.

FINANCE

Town halls face sweeping changes in bid to cut costs

By Jonathan Werran | 26 June 2013

The chances of further mergers among the 89 Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds advanced...

FINANCE

Subsidies axe to fall on councils hoping to dodge bedroom tax

26 June 2013

Housing Benefit (HB) subsidies could be axed for councils which have sought to get around the so-...

Cash and curry

26 June 2013

Diary is delighted to be able to reveal the cheapest place in the country to tuck into the mighty...

WhitevanMAN...

26 June 2013

...On the spending review.

CLIMATE CHANGE

23 years a-coming

26 June 2013

Brent LBC finally recognise former South African president Nelson Mandela this week by giving him...

Is Simon feline OK?

26 June 2013

Diary's hero of the week is Whitby Town councillor Simon Parkes.