Robert Steenson News Today

JOHN OCONNELL: There is a deepening lack of transparency, with dozens of councils failing to publish annual accounts and numerous senior officers hiding behind meaningless titles.

Research by the TaxPayers Alliance reveals that dozens of employees are paid six-figure sums a year in council buildings where desks are empty as staff are still allowed to WFH.

Around 3,000 town hall bureaucrats pocketed more than £100,000 each last year.

EXCLUSIVE: James Whiteman, 57, received the huge sum after taking voluntary redundancy from Guildford Borough Council in Surrey, where he had been managing director, in 2021.

James Whiteman, 57, received the huge pay package after taking voluntary redundancy from Guildford Borough Council. Taxpayers have blasted the payment as a joke.

The campaign groups annual local government rich list found that at least 2,759 town hall staff were on more than £100,000 last year.

The average number of employees who received a six-figure sum in total remuneration was 7.9 per local authority, according to data compiled by the TaxPayers Alliance.

After nearly a year considering a split from the Shaker Regional School District, Canterbury residents will be asked to explore the issue again – this time with a little added money to hire a consultant and get some legal advice. “We need to...

Eighty-one-year-old David Lidstone has lived in the woods of New Hampshire along the Merrimack River in a small cabin adorned with solar panels, growing his food, cutting his firewood, and tending to his pets and chickens for almost three decades

David Lidstone stood calmly in the ashes of the cabin along the bank of the Merrimack River where he’s lived alone and off-the-grid for years. The hermit and logger known as River Dave had paddled down the river to see his former home Thursday, the...