‘No need to move from Preston’ - council boss (prestontoday.net)
‘No need to move from Preston’ - council boss (prestontoday.net)
The leader of Preston city council said county hall bosses would be spiteful if they moved their offices and employees out of Preston in the event of a successful unitary authority bid. (28/12/2006 13:53:12)
Don’t waste your cash, council told (The Journal)
Waste campaigners have called on council bosses to use a windfall of nearly 10m to tackle looming problems with rubbish disposal.
Wrestling with democracy in Tehran (Financial Times)
Some years after Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger blazed the trail from Hollywood to US politics, it is sportsmen who are getting the political bug in Iran, with three elected to Tehran city council in recent polls. Winners included a pair of wrestlers, Alireza Dabir and Rasoul Khadem.
Council tax soars again as private firms profit (Times Online)
Householders face inflation-busting council tax rises of at least 4 per cent in April to help to pay for the costs of private sector contracts, The Times can reveal….
MP withdraws child from city academy after son ‘loses a year of schooling’ (Evening Standard)
A Labour MP is withdrawing her son from one of Tony Blair’s flagship city academies after he allegedly received barely any education for a year. Former transport minister Karen Buck is to switch her son from trouble-plagued Paddington Academy to a nearby comprehensive with a better record.
‘No need to move from Preston’ - council boss (prestontoday.net)
The leader of Preston city council said county hall bosses would be spiteful if they moved their offices and employees out of Preston in the event of a successful unitary authority bid. (28/12/2006 13:53:12)
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