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Park homes industry 'infiltrated by rogues'

By Dominic Browne | 20 June 2012

MPs report how park homes industry has been ‘infiltrated by a rogue element’and councils lack pow...

£1m for Gurkhas

By Dominic Browne | 20 June 2012

Communities secretary, Eric Pickles, has announced an extra £1m of funding to help retired Gurkha...

Warning over day care centre closures

By Dominic Browne | 18 June 2012

The UK's largest public sector union has claimed councils are being forced into a 'false economy'...

ADASS warns of £890m cut in care budget

By Dominic Browne | 14 June 2012

According to ADASS' latest annual budget survey, England's councils will slash £890m from the nat...

Be better prepared for unrest urges MP

By Dominic Browne | 13 June 2012

The MP for Tottenham warned this week the Government must be better prepared for the aftermath of...

Damning roads report leaves Wirral exposed

By Dominic Browne | 13 June 2012

Troubled Wirral MBC has been dealt a fresh blow following the release of a damning report critici...

'Taxpayers benefit' from home-based care

By Dominic Browne | 11 June 2012

New research says that taxpayers could save more than ten thousand pounds per patient through an ...

Pickles publishes high street guide

By Dominic Browne | 08 June 2012

A handbook to help councils and communities identify strategies to improve local shopping areas h...

Disability ruling 'will not open flood gates'

By Dominic Browne | 07 June 2012

Council officials play down significance of a Supreme Court decision requiring authorities to pro...

Wirral faces new blow as chief quits

By Dominic Browne | 06 June 2012

The chief executive of troubled Wirral MBC is set to take early retirement after just a year in t...