Council byelection results from yesterday
The Press Association reports: Cornwall County – Bude North and Stratton: Lib Dem 958, C 395, Lab 120, Ind 93…. Read more »
Bureaucracy to be reduced for councils selling empty properties
The large number of empty Council owned properties around the country is a scandal. Yet there are currently obstacles to… Read more »
Midlands councils’ spending on flights revealed
John O'Connell, Research Director of the Taxpayers Alliance, says that councils in the Midlands spent nearly £300,000 on flights over the… Read more »
Boris renews plea for restrictions on tube strikes
During this month's Mayor of London's Question Time, Labour suggested that the Mayor was failing to put the interests of… Read more »
Labour still sniping at Cable Car scheme
Last year, discussing the plans of Boris Johnson Mayor of London for a Cable Car crossing of the River Thames,… Read more »
GCSE results at academies improve at twice the rate of other maintained schools
The Department of Education have done an interesting analysis of GCSE results at 166 sponsored academies for this year and… Read more »
Islington and Sheffield plan to scrap their ALMOs to bring housing back in house
In Sheffied the tenants in the 42,000 Council owned properties are technically not Council tenants but tenants of Sheffield Homes,… Read more »
Details emerge on boosting adoption
The Sunday Telegraph has more details on Government plans to boost the numbber of adoption. this follows the news that… Read more »
Call for council candidate selection by open primary
Cllr. Howard Roberts, of Dunchurch and Knightlow Ward on Rugby Borough Council, has called for open primary for the selection… Read more »
Schools should have rules on haircuts?
When I started as a pupil at Pimlico Comprehensive in 1976 there used to gangs of skinhead pupils along the… Read more »
Cllr Paul Carter fights off leadership challenge in Kent
Congratulations to Cllr Paul Carter who has been decisively re-elected leader of Kent County Council. At the Conservative AGM he… Read more »
Council byelection results from yesterday
From the Press Association which suggests they extrapolate to a 01% Conservative lead over Labour. Bromley London Borough – Shortlands:… Read more »
Commons debates National Planning Policy Framework
A good debate in the Commons yesterday on the Government's proposals to streamline the planning system. There was a strong… Read more »
Will Labour ditch Red Ken as Mayoral candidate?
Andrew Gilligan has a blog post about how Labour officials are in despair at the candidacy of Ken Livingstone for… Read more »
Bolton Council to close a third of its libraries
Labour-run Bolton Council is pressing ahead with closing a third of its libraries. Five out of 15 are being closed…. Read more »