Articles by Ellie Ames
Dorset to host UK's first coastal tourist tax
By Ellie Ames | 15 May 2024
The first coastal tourist tax in the UK is expected to be introduced in Dorset after hoteliers in...
Guildford issues 'heartfelt apology' after £13.5m contract overspend
By Ellie Ames | 09 May 2024
Guildford BC is at ‘serious risk’ of failing to deliver Best Value after overspending by millions...
Council incurs £3.7m overspend on IT system
By Ellie Ames | 01 May 2024
Vale of Glamorgan Council took more than a year longer than planned to install a new IT system, l...
MPs sign off indefinite delay to no-fault evictions ban
By Ellie Ames | 25 April 2024
The Renters (Reform) Bill, which now includes an indefinite delay to the long-awaited ban on ‘no-...
Unison warns of looming strike as it awaits pay offer
By Ellie Ames | 22 April 2024
Scotland’s largest local government union has warned strike preparations could begin next week am...
Asylum seekers moved from RAF Wethersfield due to incomplete safety checks
By Ellie Ames | 18 April 2024
The Home Office has moved 70 people away from an asylum accommodation site after it failed to com...
Lib Dems pledge to scrap business rates
By Ellie Ames | 09 April 2024
The Lib Dems would deliver tax reforms to ‘revive struggling high streets,’ leader Sir Ed Davey h...
Scottish councils' debt is one-and-a-half times funding
By Ellie Ames | 08 April 2024
The debt of councils in Scotland is more than one-and-a-half times the latest local government fu...
14 councils 'likely' to issue s114s next year
By Ellie Ames | 28 February 2024
More than half of councils are likely to issue a section 114 notice within the next Parliament un...
Two-thirds of councils to cut neighbourhood services
By Ellie Ames | 27 February 2024
Community services will have to be ‘drastically scaled back’ or cut altogether without further fu...
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