English county council spending and cuts to frontline services will amount to £1bn in the next fi...
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Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs) have privately warned Whitehall departments they must improv...
A no deal Brexit would leave councils struggling with new checks on EU imports and without access...
Senior ministers have told the sector they are in favour of looking at local government taxation,...
James Maker says Northamptonshire CC’s mismanagement of austerity should not prevent us talking a...
Central Bedfordshire Council leader James Jamieson has been elected the new leader of the Local G...
Nearly one in five county council leaders are ‘not confident’ they can deliver a balanced budget ...
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