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Senior Knowsley councillors support combined Liverpool city region authority

By MJ Correspondent | 16 August 2013

Senior councillors at Knowsley MBC have backed plans for a combined authority across the Liverpoo...

Demand for Goverment to review Wolverhampton funding allocation

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

The Government needs to take the blame for the £86m budget gap being faced by Wolverhampton City ...

Pooled budget will aid social care collaboration

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

A vision of how English councils will work together with the NHS to spend £3.8bn of Government fu...

Councils clamp down on tax fraud

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

Six councils are joining forces in an attempt to clamp down on people wrongly claiming a discount...

Authorities slam league table approach

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

Councils named and shamed by the Government over the speed of planning decisions have hit back at...

Councils to fight London fire cuts

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

Up to seven councils could take the fight against London mayor Boris Johnson’s proposed fire serv...

Investigation into care home where council intervened

By MJ Correspondent | 14 August 2013

A care home where a concerned council intervened is at the centre of a police investigation.

Step towards combined corporate service for neighbours

By MJ Correspondent | 12 August 2013

The first step towards creating a combined corporate service for two neighbouring councils has be...

District council 'hopeful' it can avoid CPO against town authority

By MJ Correspondent | 08 August 2013

A district council in dispute with one of its town authorities is ‘hopeful’ it can avoid using a ...

'Misleading' national spending figures slammed by North East councils

By MJ Correspondent | 08 August 2013

Councils in the North East of England have poured cold water on official figures that suggested s...