City council’s hopeless helpline (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
City council’s hopeless helpline (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
A DAMNING report has highlighted huge problems with a Coventry council hot-line set up to deal with consumer complaints. It reveals that as people needing help had to wait on the phone for up to 40 minutes, staff were spending too much time in the loo, out at lunch or reading personal e-mails.
‘Scandal’ of council legal fight (BBC News)
A community council spends more than its annual income unsuccessfully fighting a case against an unpaid bill.
City gum clean-up costs 35,000 (BBC News)
A city council in Lincolnshire spends 35,000 to clean chewing gum from its streets.
POWYS County Council services were left in disarray yesterday as stormy weather cut off power to County Hall and left … (Powys County Times)
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