Doncaster Council tops the league for zero hours contracts
Yesterday Mark Wallace reported on the hypocrisy of the Labour MPs denouncing zero hours contracts – while taking money from… Read more »
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Labour’s opposition to mutuals prompts them to lose control of Redcar and Cleveland Council
Cllr John Hannon and Cllr David Williams, of Redcar and Cleveland Council, have quit the Labour Party and now sit… Read more »
Spare Room Subsidy: Again Labour ignore scope for swapping with the overcrowded
The Labour Party are still attacking the cut in the spare room subsidy or "bedroom tax" as they call it… Read more »
Sandwell Council’s Children’s Services is inadequate – but so is Ofsted
An Ofsted report has found Sandwell Council's Children's Services Department to be "inadequate." The trouble with the report is that… Read more »
Council by-election results from yesterday
Amber Valley Borough – Codnor and Waingroves: Lab 557, Ukip 250, C 219, Lib Dem 39. (May 2012 – Lab… Read more »
Oxfordshire County Council proposes new bus lanes to raise revenue from fines
Oxfordshire County Council, a Conservative/Independents alliance, is proposing new bus lanes with the explicit intention of increasing revenue from fines…. Read more »
Let’s have fewer roads painted with double yellow lines
It is reported that the Communities and Local Government Secretary, Eric Pickles, is proposing changing the guidance so that motorists… Read more »