Glasgow vows to fight city grime (BBC News)
Glasgow vows to fight city grime (BBC News)
Glasgow City Council launches a tough new clean-up campaign to ensure citizens keep the city tidy.
Drop in deaths on county’s roads (BBC News)
The number of people who died on Gloucestershire’s roads in 2006 is down by 28% compared with 2005.
Man is ‘crushed’ at council depot (BBC News)
An employee dies after apparently being crushed between a forklift truck and a lorry at a city council depot.
Hampshire fights misguided HGV menace (The Register)
‘Do not follow sat nav. Very narrow lane’ Hampshire County Council has been forced to erect signs warning HGV drivers to stay out of a narrow lane - despite their satnavs’ insistence it’s a full-fat link road.
Council sticks by decision to shut city schools (Coventry Evening Telegraph)
A FLOOD of complaints from parents over schools closing because of snow may force county education bosses to rethink their policy. But while Warwickshire is prepared to debate the matter with its head teachers, Coventry says it is satisfied with the present system and won’t be changing.
County slice of council tax to rise by 5% (The Whitehaven News)
COUNCIL tax bills in Cumbria are likely to rise by just under five per cent in April. Cumbria County Council takes three-quarters of the cash raised by council tax and councillors, meeting in Kendal on Thursday, agreed that their share should rise by 4.99 per cent, adding 51 to a Band D bill.
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