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FINANCE

Is Brown warming to local government?

12 January 2007

The pre-Budget statement, just before Christmas, was pretty much a political non-event. It looks ...

WHITEHALL

What we want from the Bill

12 January 2007

When the Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Bill has its second reading in the Hou...

Betting on success

12 January 2007

A new generation of chief executives has taken over Lincolnshire’s local authorities, restoring b...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Riverside's teeming with good intentions

12 January 2007

Anyone travelling east along the Thames from central London will notice the hard edge of Dockland...

WHITEHALL

Kelly denies agenda to force unitary structure

11 January 2007

With the deadline for unitary bids just a fortnight away, secretary of state Ruth Kelly has said ...

The balloon is up for wireless cities

10 January 2007

They sound ‘teccy’ and ‘geeky’ but actually, the acronym ‘wi-fi’ and the phrase ‘wireless cities’...

BUSINESS

Firms line up for Sandwell

10 January 2007

BT and Liberata have been named as preferred partners in a deal to become Sandwell MBC’s private ...

BUSINESS

Wragge to PFI riches

10 January 2007

WHITEHALL

Scots' drive to 'go local'

10 January 2007

Scotland’s councils want to take control of health, economic development and further education.In...

WHITEHALL

DCLG 'unmotivated and lacking leadership'

10 January 2007