Council cash section strikes (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
Council cash section strikes (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
CASH collectors at Coventry City Council will be on strike over the festive period because of a bitter pay dispute. Managers and other staff will be standing in to take cash payments for council tax and parking fines at the Council House.
County defends decision to raise student transport costs (Berwick Today)
NORTHUMBERLAND County Council has defended its decision to raise post-16 transport costs by pointing to a rise in the number of students continuing their studies. (28/12/2006 09:01:57)
City chief gives his backing to calls for sunbed salon controls (The Scotsman)
CITY council chiefs today called for more controls over sunbed salons amid growing concerns about cancer risks.
Challenge to blackout plan (Herts & Essex Observer)
COURT action has been threatened against Essex County Council if it presses ahead with plans to switch off streetlights across Uttlesford.
It s pay by weight from Monday (The Galway Advertiser)
On Monday, New Year s Day, Galway city s refuse collection service will go pay by weight, a move the Galway City Council believes will result in the public paying cheaper refuse charges.
Other Headlines (Aldershot News and Mail)
FOLLOWING in the footsteps of Hampshire s police force and county council, Rushmoor Borough Council has hit out at the government over funding for next year.
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