CLIMATE CHANGE

Low carbon a low priority for LEPs

By Nick Appleyard | 18 August 2010

Just one-third of local authorities consider supporting a low-carbon economy to be a priority for...

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Lessons for the coalition from hung councils

By John Stewart | 18 August 2010

Can Messrs Cameron and Clegg learn some lessons from local government where no overall control ha...

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A fond farewell?

18 August 2010

Nottinghamshire CC is being open and honest about how the financial cuts may impact on staff and ...

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Where do you stand on strikes?

11 August 2010

As unions gear themselves up for an autumn and winter of discontent over public spending cuts, em...

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A clever move on pensions

By Michael Burton | 11 August 2010

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Everyone loves a sharer

By Rob Whiteman | 10 August 2010

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Now is the time to redress the balance

By John Stewart | 06 May 2010

With the election out of the way, local government must lobby the new administration to redress t...

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Are these lessons too foreign for us?

By John Stewart | 14 April 2010

George Jones and John Stewart continue their look at how other countries organise their local gov...

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So what do parties offer for local democracy?

By John Stewart | 14 April 2010

All the main political parties claim to be localist. George Jones and John Stewart put forward so...

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So just what has the concordat achieved?

By John Stewart | 05 March 2008

Less than three months after the signing of the grandly-named central/local government concordat ...