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Green energy awards seeks public sector entrants
Thursday, 29 July 2010

Public sector organisations all over the UK now have the chance to enter next year’s Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy. The world’s leading green energy awards, the Ashden Awards champion practical, local energy solutions that cut carbon, protect the environment, reduce poverty and improve people’s lives.

New health and leisure facilities for Staffordshire
Thursday, 29 July 2010

Construction work on a multimillion pound Health and Wellbeing Centre in the heart of Newcastle-under-Lyme is set to start in September following the announcement of the preferred contractor.

Friends of the Earth urges Spelman to act on waste and recycling
Thursday, 29 July 2010

Pressure group argues for end to wastre PFI, reatained fortnightly collections and more ambitious targets.

Barnet Council publishes spending online
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Barnet Council has published details of its spending above £500, as part of its transparency efforts.
Details of payment to suppliers will be listed for the three months April to June 2010 inclusive (and will continue to be published quarterly.

Councils across Tees Valley submit LEP bid
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Tees Valley Unlimited, a partnership of councils across the Tees Valley, has decided to develop its own proposal to form a Local Enterprise Partnership and has submitted a formal expression of interest to ministers.

2,000 jobs could go at Cornwall Council
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Up to 2,000 jobs at Cornwall Council could be axed in a bid to save £110 million over the next four years.

Government to end regionalisation of fire services
Wednesday, 28 July 2010

Action that will stop the forced regionalisation of fires services and hand more control back to local services will be announced by Fire Minister Bob Neill today as part of the Government's plan to abolish regional government and give stronger powers and responsibilities to communities.

Councils and developers to be given more flexibility to make new homes zero-carbon
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

Housing Minster Grant Shapps has today set out further steps for all new homes to be zero carbon from 2016. The plans outlined aim to give councils and developers much more flexibility to decide how to meet the ambitious eco-standards.

Mayor searches for London Ambassadors
Tuesday, 27 July 2010

The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today fired the starting gun in the search for the 8,000 welcoming faces that will greet the hundreds of thousands of visitors expected to descend on London for the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Stockport Council provides green boost for businesses
Monday, 26 July 2010

Stockport Council organised an event last week for local businesses to find out how they can ‘go green’.

Cheshire East rejects election changes
Monday, 26 July 2010

Cheshire East Council has rejected proposals to nearly double the number of electoral wards.

Liverpool City Council senior staff agree pay cut
Monday, 26 July 2010

A total of 32 of the most senior staff at Liverpool City Council have volunteered for a pay cut which will save half a million pounds a year in wages.

South Cambridgeshire appoints new chief
Monday, 26 July 2010

South Cambridgeshire District Council has appointed a new chief executive.

Lord Heseltine announced as chair of regional fund
Monday, 26 July 2010

The Government announced today that Lord Heseltine will chair the Independent Approval Panel for the £1billion Regional Growth Fund.

Call for devolution to London
Friday, 23 July 2010

In a joint move today, the Mayor of London, London Councils and the London Assembly co-signed a letter sent to Eric Pickles, Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, making a united case for further devolution to London from central government.

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