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FINANCE

New bid to create 'safe' home for town hall cash

24 September 2009

Plans to improve the way councils manage £30bn in cash assets in the wake of the Icelandic bankin...

Lib Dem claims to build more homes dismissed

24 September 2009

Housing minister, John Healey, has dismissed Liberal Democrat claims they would build more social...

FINANCE

County bid to end equal pay dispute

23 September 2009

Cumbria CC has made individual settlement offers, in a bid to end a long-running equal pay dispute.

WHITEHALL

Never look a gift horse...

22 September 2009

£45m upgrades for Brighton & Hove's housing

22 September 2009

Brighton & Hove City Council has developed a new plan to improve the authority’s housing stock by...

WHITEHALL

Authorities get fraud warning

22 September 2009

Councils must do more to fight fraud after the Audit Commission claimed £90m is lost to false cou...

WHITEHALL

Doubts over CAA impact

22 September 2009

Council leaders have challenged Audit Commission inspectors to ‘up their game’ if area assessment...

CLIMATE CHANGE

Councils urged to spend £51m carbon fund

22 September 2009

The Carbon Trust has called on local authorities to make the most of the multi-million pound fund...

BUSINESS

Energy boost for West Midlands enterprises

22 September 2009

Energy and climate change minister, Lord Hunt, has praised businesses in the West Midlands for th...

BUSINESS

Historic buildings being left with that empty feeling

22 September 2009

Around 200,000 listed and historic buildings are lying empty because developers do not understand...