Volunteers wanted to pay extra council tax: Wandsworth residents facing 5.7% bill hikes By Money Mail Reporter For The Daily Mail Published: 22:00 BST, 6 April 2021 | Updated: 22:53 BST, 6 April 2021 Residents in some areas could soon be asked to make extra council tax contributions on top of their regular bills. One … Read more
My mother is a victim of the £3billion state pension scandal. It now appears that she is being victimised again by the local authority. Due to this scandal my mother has recently received a sizeable payment from the Department for Work and Pensions, because of their ineptitude going back 12 years to when my father … Read more
Council apologises after worker was spotted sitting on gravestone to smoke cigarette during break Leah Emerson saw incident involving worker at Brumby Cemetery, Scunthorpe She felt it showed a lack of respect for the dead and bereaved families visiting North Lincolnshire Council apologised for any distress caused by the incident By Tom Pyman For Mailonline … Read more
A council questioned whether an employee was ‘jumping on the Grenfell bandwagon’ when she told them she suffered PTSD after losing five members of her family in the fire, a tribunal heard. Labibun Nessa, 42, launched a discrimination claim against her employers the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea after suffering PTSD, anxiety and suicidal … Read more
A council accused an employee of ‘jumping on the Grenfell bandwagon’ when she told them she suffered PTSD after losing five members of her family in the fire, a tribunal heard. Labibun Nessa, 42, launched a discrimination claim against her employers the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea after suffering PTSD, anxiety and suicidal thoughts. … Read more
From council estate to Cambridge college head: Activist becomes first black man to be elected chief of Oxbridge college Lord Simon Woolley will be the next principal of Homerton College, Cambridge He is the third black person to be elected as head of an Oxbridge college Lord Woolley was adopted, growing up on a council … Read more
Householders in more than 100 districts will receive average bills of more than £2,000 next week as town halls put up council tax by 11 times the rate of inflation. Across England the average bill for a typical Band D home will be £1,898 – up £80 on last year, according to figures released yesterday. … Read more
Drones are drafted in to wage war on beach litter as local council uses eye-in-the-sky to create real-time map of waste hotspots Drones are being used by Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Council The aim it to speed up the council’s response to rubbish left behind by visitors The Daily Mail helping to launch Keep Britain … Read more
Liverpool’s Labour city council is to be stripped of some of its powers for the next three years amid a corruption probe, it was confirmed today. Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said he plans to to appoint commissioners to run some aspects of the authority after a damning report by inspectors. A team led by Max Caller … Read more
Parish council is slammed as ‘the meanest in the country’ after banning a childminder from taking TODDLERS to an allotment Hannah Lovelock, 43, from Stoke Poges, says she has ‘meanest parish in Britain’ Childminder has been told she cannot use allotment if she has children with her Mrs Lovelock used to take daughter, Nora, four, … Read more