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Broadband plea

09 November 2011

The Country Land and Business Association (CLA) has called for the Government to improve broadban...

Tax bill crackdown

09 November 2011

Barking and Dagenham LBC is planning a crackdown on residents abusing the single person discount ...

WHITEHALL

Rochdale cleared in memory stick fiasco

09 November 2011

Whitehall's information watchdog excoriates Rochdale MBC for losing an unencrypted memory stick.

WHITEHALL

Agency under fire over 'lost' immigrants

09 November 2011

MPs lambast troubled UK Border Agency for continued poor performance.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Trading standards must be properly funded, MPs urge

By Jonathan Werran | 09 November 2011

Council trading standards departments must get Whitehall funding boost to combat consumer scams n...

WHITEHALL

Voter registration reform 'could hit the vulnerable'

By Jonathan Werran | 09 November 2011

Electoral registration officers fear an important civic function will be harmed,if government pla...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

'Rattle those collecting tins' Nesta tells sector

By Jamie Hailstone | 09 November 2011

Chief executive of NESTA, calls on schools and hospitals to stop being shy about asking for donat...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Numbers volunteering at local libraries leaps 20%

09 November 2011

The number of people volunteering at their local libraries has risen by more than 20% in the last...

Councils urged to drive further property savings

By Jonathan Werran | 09 November 2011

Report urges ministers to remove property transfer tax barriers,to help local authorities deliver...

CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Westminster drops plans to outlaw soup runs

09 November 2011

Westminster City Council has dropped controversial plans to outlaw soup runs for homeless people ...