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WHITEHALL

Legal battle launched over care court costs

10 October 2008

Hillingdon LBC has launched a High Court battle for fairer funding to cover care proceedings’ cou...

WHITEHALL

Ex-Serco chief named to lead Cornwall unitary

10 October 2008

Kevin Lavery has been appointed as new chief executive for the newly-formed unitary Cornwall Coun...

WHITEHALL

Surrey's 'heat or eat' fear

10 October 2008

Surrey CC has called for an increase in government grant to avoid giving local residents a ‘heat ...

WHITEHALL

Inflation rise

10 October 2008

Rising inflation has devalued town halls’ annual settlement from Whitehall by £500m, the LGA has ...

WHITEHALL

Staff worries over unitary job cuts

10 October 2008

Hundreds of council employees in Northumberland are facing an uncertain future as councils prepar...

BUSINESS

West Sussex goes drillling for oil to beat energy hike

10 October 2008

Steep rises in the price of oil have brought a local authority centre stage in a £12bn exploratio...

BUSINESS

Energy payout 'is insufficient'

10 October 2008

Cash payments by energy companies to communities to enable wind farm developments are a mere frac...

BUSINESS

Mayor Boris brings in the big guns to help him run London

10 October 2008

One of the world’s top advertising executives has been drafted in to advise the London mayor on s...

FINANCE

Londoners' fares grant rises £500k

10 October 2008

The government grant provided to Transport for London to subsidise concessionary fares is set to ...

FINANCE

Government hints of rescue plan as fears grip Olympic developer

10 October 2008