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Articles by Jamie Hailstone

£250m Aberdeen City Deal boosts gas and oil industry

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2016

Town hall leaders have hailed the signing of a £250m City Deal for Aberdeen as a boost for the re...

Welsh devolution branded as 'short-sighted and clunky'

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2016

Academics have dismissed Whitehall plans to devolve more powers to Wales as ‘clunky, inequitable ...

Jobs move to London criticised

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2016

Council leaders and local MPs have criticised plans to close a regional government office in Shef...

'Give us slice of cash from drink sales'

By Jamie Hailstone | 03 February 2016

Brighton & Hove City Council has called for public health directors to be given a slice of the £1...

Concerns over Better Care Fund delay

By Jamie Hailstone | 02 February 2016

Town hall bosses have appealed to civil servants over delays to the publication of technical guid...

IER: 800,000 drop off electoral register

By Jamie Hailstone | 01 February 2016

The Labour Party has claimed around 800,000 people have dropped off the electoral register after ...

Councils demand extra cash in care visit row

By Jamie Hailstone | 29 January 2016

Town hall chiefs have reiterated calls to bring forward extra cash for the Better Care Fund (BCF)...

Kier sells 50% stake of PFI project for £4.1m

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 January 2016

The Kier Pension Group Scheme has sold its 50% stake in the Sheffield Schools PFI project to a jo...

NE LEP chair and other members to step down

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 January 2016

The chair of the North East Local Enterprise Partnership, Paul Woolston, has announced he is stan...

Councils give green light to trading plans

By Jamie Hailstone | 27 January 2016

Bolton MBC and East Cambridgeshire DC have become the latest local authorities to give the green ...