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IN just a few weeks, residents in the Partick East/Kelvindale and Baillieston wards will go to the polls to elect councillors in what will be crucial by-elections for Glasgow City Council. After three and a half years of the SNP running Glasgow into the ground, voters will get a chance to deliver their verdict on how local services are being run. Our first nationalist administration doesn’t have much to be proud of – bin collection cuts, bulk uplift charges, potholes, ungritted street...

Cost-cutting budget proposals by Wyre Forest District Council include selling Wyre Forest House in Kidderminster RADICAL cost-saving plans to plug a £2.7 million funding gap in Wyre Forest District Councils budget left in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic are set to be finalised next week. Cabinet members will discuss the final proposals for the Medium Term Financial Strategy, which includes increasing council tax, sharing services with other councils and selling all or parts of its hea...

Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Highland Council’s budget leader has resigned just weeks prior to the authority meeting to decide its spending for the next financial year. Councillor Alister Mackinnon, also co-founder of Organic Sea Harvest on Skye, has ‘regrettably’ stepped down from the post following refusal for a new fish farm site. Mr Mackinnon was due to oversee the tough financial budget for...

Published: 12:00 AM January 31, 2021    The latest child poverty statistics have been released. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Images - Credit: PA Wire/PA Images There was unanimous agreement from East Devon district councillors on the earlier this month on the need for rapid action to reduce deprivation and poverty in East Devon.  During the pandemic, the NHS, local government and local communities have really come together, reshaping their work in an effort to contain the infection and protect ...

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All of Salfords Tory councillors face town hall investigation over green field spat Tory claim of council deal with local developers is branded fake news Updated Land at Broadoak, between Monton and Worsley, which Salford council successfully stopped from being developed for housing (Image: Manchester Evening News) Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and dont miss a thing happening in and around the cityInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subscribe When you subscribe we w...

Cllr David Cavill A FORMER mayor of Trowbridge who was kicked out of the Conservative Party has joined the Liberal Democrats. Cllr David Cavill was welcomed into the South West Wiltshire Lib Dem Group by the town council’s leader Cllr Stewart Palmen, who said: “We would like to welcome a new councillor to the Lib Dem group. “David Cavill is a former mayor of Trowbridge and has been working to make Trowbridge better as a councillor for sometime. “He was instrumental in setting up...

Paul Davies said the controversy has become a distraction THE leader of the Welsh Conservatives has resigned after he was among a group of politicians who drank alcohol on the Senedd estate just days after a pub alcohol ban came into force. Paul Davies said the controversy over the events, which took place in December, had become a “distraction” and he is standing down with “immediate effect” despite appeals from colleagues to continue. He said in a statement: “Yesterday I indi...

Tory candidate for Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner Charlie Chirico drops out over toxic environment Incumbent David Munro has ruled out returning to the Conservative Party Charlie Chirico (inset) explained in a video message why she no longer wanted to run for the office of Surrey Police and Crime Commissioner (Image: Darren Pepe (main) and Twitter (inset)) Get the latest email updates for Surrey with our FREE daily newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Subsc...