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Torbay chief executive proposes voluntary redundancy

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 April 2012

Torbay Council's chief executive has offered to take voluntary redundancy.

Watchdog refers Tower Hamlets votes to police

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 April 2012

The Electoral Commission has referred allegations of postal voting fraud within Tower Hamlets LBC...

Police arrest ex-CQC employee over bribery allegations

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 April 2012

A former employee of the Care Quality Commission has been arrested following cash allegations.

CQC launch surprise home care inspections

By Jamie Hailstone | 26 April 2012

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has launched a series of unannounced inspections of home care s...

Broadband costs add to countryside woes

By Jamie Hailstone | 25 April 2012

Agricultural economies faced a double whammy this week, after a county chief warned rural authori...

Burnham: NHS should provide terminal home care

By Jamie Hailstone | 23 April 2012

Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham has announced Labour plans to transfer care of terminally il...

Parsons survives 'no confidence' vote

By Jamie Hailstone | 20 April 2012

Cllr David Parsons, has survived a bid to oust him by opposition councillors as the row over his ...

District leader praises town's nuclear action

By Jamie Hailstone | 19 April 2012

The leader of Sedgemoor DC has thanked Bridgwater Town Council for helping to meet its legal cost...

Localism marred by poor value say MPs

By Jamie Hailstone | 18 April 2012

Parliament's influential spending watchdog has warned the localism agenda has been marred by lack...

MPs launch inquiry into future of adult provision

By Jamie Hailstone | 18 April 2012

A parliamentary group has launched a new inquiry into the future funding of social care, as the G...