Local Government

  • NewsAOL

    ยฃ47 billion pension crisis could hit council tax

    Local government pensions are facing a crisis - having built up a black hole of ยฃ47 billion. A report from the Centre for Policy Studies has highlighted this incredible shortfall - which is up ยฃ10 billion in four years. It says that for every

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  • BusinessAOL

    Couple's ยฃ1 Stoke home is now worth ยฃ70k

    Lawrence (48) and Theresa (46) Poxton bought what is technically one of cheapest properties in the UK. The bus driver and his wife snapped up their terraced home for just ยฃ1 in a scheme run by Stoke-on-Trent Council to sell to people who

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  • ScienceAOL

    Council will only collect rubbish once every three weeks

    Bury Council has become the first in England to announce that from now on it will only be collecting rubbish once every three weeks. It previously collected rubbish once a fortnight and recycling once a month. Now it plans to pick up recycling

  • LifestyleAOL

    Council hands out parking ticket - for 90 second stop

    David Osborne, a 68-year-old builder and decorator from Bristol, had driven his partner into the city on Valentine's Day for a romantic drink. He pulled over outside the bar he was planning to visit, and hopped out to read a sign showing

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  • NewsAOL

    Parking meter wheeze makes ยฃ300k a year

    Cornish councils are claiming that installing parking meters that don't give change wasn't a money-making scheme. Apparently it was all to save them the headache of stocking them with change. However, quite by chance, it says that by

  • NewsAOL

    Last man standing won't leave his home

    Charlie Wright, a 62-year-old from Birkenhead, is refusing to leave the home he was born in, and has lived in all his life. His determination to stay put hasn't been shaken by the fact that the council has pulled down

  • PoliticsAOL

    Democracy in local government; sounds like a good idea

    Councils are often accused of being a law unto themselves, particularly when it comes to the amount of council tax they collect and what they choose to spend the money on. Eric Pickles, communities minister, is the latest politician to wade in