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FINANCE

Treasury rushed capital funding cuts, MPs report

By Jonathan Werran | 08 March 2013

Coalition focus on making immediate spending review cuts risked undermining long-term economic ob...

ENVIRONMENT

Councils need more time to adopt local plans, National Trust urges

By Jonathan Werran | 07 March 2013

Ministers should extend the deadline for local authorities to formulate local development plans, ...

FINANCE

District councils 'must lead from the front'

By Jamie Hailstone | 07 March 2013

A local government think tank has called for district councils to be at the forefront of the econ...

FINANCE

Pickles 'on message' in Cabinet cuts row

By Heather Jameson | 07 March 2013

Reports that communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has gone head to head with the Chancellor to de...

WHITEHALL

Pickles blasts Whitehall's 'silo mentality' ahead of Budget

By Jonathan Werran | 07 March 2013

Communities secretary admits he has slammed fellow members of the Cabinet for propping up Whiteha...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Leicestershire's former deputy leader defects to UKIP

By Jonathan Werran | 06 March 2013

David Sprason, former deputy leader of Leicestershire CC’s Conservative group defects to UKIP, vo...

whitevanMAN...

06 March 2013

on VOTING FOR UKIP.

Statute says 'no' to statue of Mrs T

06 March 2013

Members of South Kesteven DC vote against having a statue of Margaret Thatcher.

Nobody expects the Chinese inquisition

06 March 2013

A case of mistaken identity.

FINANCE

Sheffield council chief berates Clegg over spending allegations

06 March 2013

The chief executive of Sheffield City Council has written to the deputy prime minister about the ...