City mourns loss of ’statesman’ (BBC News)
City mourns loss of ’statesman’ (BBC News)
A city councillor who spent more than 40 years on the council is mourned.
County council reveals recycling aims (Wanstead and Woodford Guardian)
ESSEX County Council will spend hundreds of millions of pounds over the coming years in an attempt to drive recycling rates up.
Glasgow council s use of anti-union laws backfires (Socialist Worker)
Glasgow City council s attempts to use Tory anti-union laws has backfired. Managers had hoped to use the law to intimidate 600 social care workers from a work to rule and stop solidarity action.
Council to extend cigarette ban (BBC News)
Cornwall County Council is to extend the ban on smoking to the grounds of all the buildings it owns, leases or rents.
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