City set to pocket extra 1.6m from new parking zone fines (The Scotsman)
City set to pocket extra 1.6m from new parking zone fines (The Scotsman)
THE city council is set to rake in up to 1.6 million extra from parking fines after extending the Capital’s controlled parking zone.
Council Tax is set to rise by 4.5% (Bury Free Press)
It is less for more as Suffolk County Council unveiled proposals for an inflation-busting tax rise at the same time as announcing cuts to services.
Council defends 11m sickness pay (BBC News)
About 11m is spent on sick pay in a year by a council, where staff take an average of 12 days each.
Extra 1m for council but no more for museum (Wiltshire Times)
WILTSHIRE County Council could get 1m it was not expecting to spend next year - but it has refused to give the county’s Heritage Museum an extra 12,500.
City council to freeze tax bills for the second year (The Herald)
Council tax bills in Scotland’s largest local authority are to be frozen for the second year in succession. But the decision by Glasgow, the first council in Scotland to announce next year’s council tax levels, has already been dismissed as “a political ploy” and “a false economy”.
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