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City caught up in pension row

22 January 2010

A major Welsh council is under pressure to explain why it paid £26m in staff pensions contributio...

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Workers warned of threat to jobs

22 January 2010

Staff at Birmingham City Council, Europe’s largest local authority, have been warned the authorit...

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Government waste strategy 'muddled' say MPs

22 January 2010

The Government’s waste strategy is muddled, and ministers have failed to empower councils to redu...

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CLG clarifies rules for BRS spending

22 January 2010

Business Rates Supplements (BRS) can be used to fund revenue and capital projects, CLG officials ...

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Borough cuts youth violence

22 January 2010

Redbridge LBC has revealed serious youth violence in the borough has been reduced by 30%, since A...

Bridges builds a Better future

22 January 2010

Local government expert, Claire Bridges, has accepted a one-year secondment as policy director at...

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Tories are no fans of awayday

22 January 2010

Conservatives have hit out after the Government Office for East of England spent £7,500 on an awa...

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No allowances for fraudster

22 January 2010

Hounslow LBC has successfully prosecuted a benefit cheat who dishonestly claimed more than £860 i...

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Sharing the drive

22 January 2010

CIPFA and the Society of District Council Treasurers have published a joint report urging council...

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Warped' claim

22 January 2010

Town hall and policing priorities are being ‘increasingly warped’ by money-raising and box-tickin...