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BUSINESS

Battle looms over £3.8bn waste deal

27 September 2009

The contract to run Europe’s biggest waste service is now under threat of a legal challenge.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Buoyant over river-side site

27 September 2009

A joint venture between North Tyneside MBC and regional development agency, One North East, has b...

FINANCE

Doubts raised over plan to tax £1m home owners

27 September 2009

Finance experts have challenged Liberal Democrat calls for a new tax on properties worth £1m-plus...

WHITEHALL

PCS calls for closure on tax-avoidance measures

27 September 2009

Whitehall’s largest trade union has urged the Revenue and Customs department to close controversi...

WHITEHALL

Treasury targets to ensure Whitehall spending rethink

27 September 2009

Whitehall chiefs are preparing for ‘hefty’ budget cuts as early as this winter’s Pre-Budget Repor...

WHITEHALL

Fears grow over borrowing hike

27 September 2009

Concern that ministers may have to cut public spending quickly and severely intensified this week...

WHITEHALL

Soap Box

27 September 2009

Local government can be proud of the interest shown in the Total Place project by the wider publi...

Save our villages

27 September 2009

As our rural communities are populated more by the retired and second home owners, Ruth Davison w...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

The greening of Bradford

27 September 2009

A new regeneration project in the city of Bradford includes a six-acre park in the heart of the c...

WHITEHALL

Will management of change lead to change of management?

27 September 2009

Stephen Weigel says the downturn has forced councils to bring forward their own change plans.