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Inflation has remained at 2.8 per cent, according to the Office of National Statistics, as low food prices helped prevent an increase in the rate.[more...]
The communities secretary has pledged to tackle temporary accommodation costs facing councils.
Temporary accommodation has been placing increasing pressure on council budgets, with government data… [more...]
A £61m package to save local assets has been announced by the Government.
The Community Right to Buy Fund is designed to protect assets vulnerable… [more...]
Proposals for local government reorganisation (LGR) in Essex are ‘ill thought out’ and ‘expensive’, says the leader of Reform-controlled Essex County Council.
Cllr Peter Harris… [more...]
Action to tackle the local audit crisis has moved the system from ‘intensive care to the high dependency unit’, according to the government’s preferred candidate to… [more...]