Oxford Mail on MSN5d
Police and crime commissioner calls on councils to back plans for unitary authority
The Thames Valley Police police and crime commissioner is calling on councils in Oxfordshire to back plans for a new unitary ...
Unitary reforms stopped North Yorkshire Council from almost going bankrupt
North Yorkshire Council would be close to bankruptcy without savings from local government reorganisation, with top officials ...
North Yorkshire Council funding system 'not fit for purpose', parliamentary inquiry told
The system for funding local authorities is “not fit for purpose” with councils having little choice but to increase council ...
The UK towns where nobody agrees what county they're in as Angela Rayner adds to confusion
EXCLUSIVE: Greater Manchester or Lancashire, London or Essex, Avon or Somerset? Across the country where you say you come ...
BBC15d
Councils must submit unitary plans by end of March
Cambridgeshire currently has a two-tier system of local government, with a county council and five smaller district and city ...
Badenoch tries to stop Rayner from cancelling local elections
Kemi Badenoch has launched an attempt to stop Angela Rayner from cancelling local elections in May, after the Deputy Prime ...
Norwich Evening News7d
Norwich City Council sets aside £250k for devolution bid
Norwich City Council has agreed to set aside £250,000 for its bid to create a unitary Norwich authority under the government's devolution plans.
Evening Standard on MSN14d
Fact check: Are this year’s local elections being ‘cancelled’?
This fact check has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK’s largest fact checking charity working to ... Some areas of England are currently covered by a single unitary authority, while others are part ...
Super-sized council covering Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle and Moorlands takes major leap forward
Stoke-on-Trent City Council has tonight announced it's backing the plan for a giant council covering the city, Newcastle and ...