Road deaths fall after speed cameras scrapped
Despite alarmist claims that turning off speed cameras would be detrimental to road safety initial figures indicate that the opposite … Read more »
Will the Conservatives make gains from the Lib Dems on May 5?
The local elections this year see nearly half the council seats in the country being contested. The Conservatives are defending… Read more »
Ken Livingstone and RMT use the same press officer
More evidence that Ken Livingstone is joined at the hip with the RMT, the tube union whose strikes cause such… Read more »
Council byelection results from yesterday
Gloucestershire CC – Rodborough: Lab 793, C 790, Lib Dem 660, Green 260. (June 2009 – Three seats C 1196,… Read more »
Free schools for Teesside, Lincolnshire, Tottenham…
I'm increasingly optimistic about Michael Gove's free school revolution. So far only 35 have been approved to an advanced stage…. Read more »
Local Government is full of ambition, leadership and imagination
By Eric Pickles MP. Over the next few weeks, councils will be putting their final touches to the budgets for… Read more »
Liverpool “daft” to pull out of Big Society vanguard says Redmond
Labour-run Liverpool City Council has announced it is pulling out of being Big Society Vanguard. The concept was announced by… Read more »
100 days of Lutfur Rahman as Mayor of Tower Hamlets
Lutfur Rahman hit his one hundredth day in office as Tower Hamlets’ executive mayor last Friday (28th January). In his… Read more »
Leeds City Council spends £460,000 a month on taxis
Leeds City Council (Labour-run with support from a couple of Green Party councillors) is spending nearly half a million pounds… Read more »
Free School planned for Rotherham
A free school is planned for Rotherham. The Three Valleys Independent Academy says: The intention is to build the best… Read more »
Nottingham City Council holds out against spending transparency
Charlton Heston said they could only prise his gun from his "cold, dead hands." The attitude of Labour-run Nottingham City… Read more »
Every councillor in UK gets email encouraging them to campaign for EU spending freeze
By Tim Montgomerie Local government is being cut but the EU is getting more money from the British taxpayer. Medway… Read more »
Council Tax used to peddle propaganda in Lambeth
Labour-run Lambeth Council is spending taxpayers' money attacking the Government through its town hall newspaper funded by local residents. In… Read more »
Karen Buck opposes parental choice for her constituents
I am delighted that in September a free school is opening in Third Avenue, Queen's Park - just off the… Read more »
Spending transparency deadline expires
Councils in England are now required to publish procurement spending on items over £500. (I hope that Conservatives in Wales,… Read more »