Council elections: A testing time for party alignments Like it or not, the council elections will be dominated by an issue that has nothing to do with local government, says Mark Whitehead.
Don’t play the hokey-cokey with health Local government has turned public health around despite funding cuts. Now it not the time to think about returning the service to the NHS, argues Nathan Elvery.
Districts in Somerset hit out at ‘unrealistic’ unitary savings claim
Javid approves creation of new district council
Two councils vote in favour of merger
Union warns of 30% job losses under council transformation plans
Javid approves locally-led proposals to merge councils
The pitfalls of local government transformation
