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Landing Morrisons

18 January 2012

LXB Retail Properties has exchanged contracts on an option to buy land owned by Stafford BC and S...

Mears gets intense

18 January 2012

Housing repairs firm, Mears, has revealed it has won £156m of new contracts and extensions since ...

May Gurney success

18 January 2012

May Gurney has been awarded Harrow LBC's highways maintenance contract, which is worth up to £50m.

Firm is top bidder

18 January 2012

Babcock has been selected by Devon CC as the preferred bidder for a £125m seven-year contract to ...

FINANCE

District is latest to unveil help for first time buyers

18 January 2012

Chichester DC has become the latest authority to launch a scheme helping first time buyers into t...

FINANCE

Bonds could lead to LGPS funding for UK investment

By Jonathan Werran | 18 January 2012

Plans to launch a collective municipal bonds agency could obviate chancellor George Osborne's nee...

WHITEHALL

Unions launch appeal in pension rating index row

18 January 2012

Whitehall trade unions to front an appeal against High Court decision allowing ministers to chang...

WHITEHALL

Call for one body to handle means-tested benefits

18 January 2012

A single body should be responsible for administering the complex web of means-tested benefits, a...

HEALTH

Integrating health services 'will take time'

18 January 2012

Health and council social care chiefs have admitted that integrating their structures will take l...

HEALTH

Report reveals major charging errors at Wirral

18 January 2012

A report into Wirral MBC's adult social care services has unearthed 'serious failings'.