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Keith Prince AM , Havering and Redbridge Published: 8:45 AM March 6, 2021    London mayor Sadiq Khan has increased council tax in this years budget - Credit: Mike Brooke (inset) and Tom Simpson/GLA Sadiq Khans final budget as mayor shows he has the wrong priorities for London. Instead of making savings, Khan chose to increase his share of council tax by 9.5 per cent and protect his wasteful spending.  Worse still, the mayors refusing to take responsibility for his decision by claiming he ha...

Keith Prince AM, Havering and Redbridge Published: 8:45 AM March 6, 2021    Mayor Sadiq Khan has increased council tax in this years budget - Credit: MIke Brooke (inset) and Tom Simpson (GLA) Sadiq Khans final budget as mayor shows he has the wrong priorities for London. Instead of making savings, Khan chose to increase his share of council tax by 9.5 per cent and protect his wasteful spending.  Worse still, the mayors refusing to take responsibility for his decision by claiming he had "no c...

Council tax in Brent is set to go up by almost six per cent next month following confirmation of London’s City Hall budget.

Published: 12:21 PM March 2, 2021    Updated: 9:47 AM March 5, 2021 An energy efficiency amendment proposed by the Conservative Group at last weeks Council Budget meeting was unsuccessful following a debate on the issue. - Credit: Ken Mears An amendment for a Green Business scheme in Redbridge was voted down at last weeks council budget meeting.  Put forward by the Redbridge Conservative Group, the proposal sought to invest £1million in grants for businesses to improve the energy efficienc...

Readers have reacted after the Labour Party said that jobs at Barrow’s BAE Systems would be safe if they were to take power.

BBC News Published image captionKeane Duncan, 26, was first elected to the council when he was aged 20 A council leader and his deputy have resigned in protest at a "greedy and unnecessary" proposal to raise local taxes amid the Covid pandemic. Keane Duncan quit after his proposals for a 2021/22 freeze at Ryedale District Council were overturned. The Conservative leader said the authority "should help people out where it can" and its financial position enabled it to freeze bills. Deputy leader...

Leadership is too white, too old and too male, says councillor The authority has a new equality, diversity and inclusion strategy 05:30, 26 FEB 2021 Cllr Amy Wheelton and South Derbyshire District Council headquarters in Swadlincote (Image: South Derbyshire District Council/Derby Telegraph) Never miss another Derbyshire story by signing up to our free email updatesInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to s...

Councillors failed to come to an agreement on the budget proposals at Wednesday nights meeting WYRE Forest District Council will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a new budget for the next year after councillors failed to agree on any of the cost-saving plans put in front of them at Wednesday nights meeting. Radical proposals to plug a predicted £2.7 million funding gap left in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic were due to be agreed by full council, but after a deadl...

Brent Civic Centre - Credit: Nathalie Raffray Councillors in Brent have rejected a pay rise in response to widespread public sector salary freezes. At a full council meeting on Monday (February 22), they voted to keep their yearly pay structure agreed for 2020/21, which means each member will continue to receive a basic allowance of £12,484. Further amounts are awarded for additional responsibilities, such as positions on committees, with Brent Council leader Cllr Muhammed Butt (Lab, Tokyngton...

Cllr Stephen Greek highlighted criticisms of proposed high-rise developments, such as the ones in Stanmore Station car park (Photo: Transport for London) Councillors voted against a ban on high rise buildings in Harrow’s suburbs, despite claims the borough is at risk of being “carpet bombed by ugly tower blocks”. Harrow Council rejected a motion proposed by the borough’s Conservative Group at a full council meeting yesterday (Thursday, February 25), which sought to limit buildings i...