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Borrowing success

09 November 2011

Lancashire CC can borrow money from the money markets at lower interest rates, having secured the...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Arts Council books libraries funding scheme

By Jonathan Werran | 09 November 2011

Arts Council England and LGA launch £200,000 fund to use libraries to promote arts and serve as s...

Surrey's savings under spotlight

09 November 2011

Surrey CC leader, David Hodge, has given Whitehall efficiency chiefs an update on the authority’s...

Parish probe comes to the city

09 November 2011

Westminster City Council is to launch a community governance review, which will look at the possi...

Grandee to lead Scottish study

09 November 2011

Former Liberal Democrat leader, Sir Menzies Campbell,is to head his party’s home rule commission.

Member blasts 'covert' sacking

09 November 2011

Durham CC has been accused of a 'shameful' lack of transparency for refusing to disclose its reas...

Welsh fears over lack of reserve cash

09 November 2011

A report on Wales' finances has raised serious concerns about the ability of the country's govern...

'Mayoral influence' claim rejected

09 November 2011

Senior City of London Corporation official rejects the notion that 'any person or firm could undu...

Initiatives aimed at curbing repeat of riots 'hit by cuts'

By Dermott Calpin | 09 November 2011

London Councils claim cuts to public spending have reduced local government's ability to develop ...

'More funding needed' to fight online scams

09 November 2011

MPs have concluded that council trading standard officers should recieve additional funding from ...