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There are just days to have your say on the prospect of the biggest shake-up in Dorset’s local government for more than 40 years. The county’s nine major councils have put forward plans to merge into just two. The Reshaping Your Councils consultation, which started on August 30, will end on October 25 – although […]
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ALMOST £5m will be spent on planning a contentious NHS programme in what campaigners and MPs are calling an ‘absolute scandal’. Figures uncovered by The Northern Echo and Darlington MP Jenny Chapman reveal the proposed Better Health programme will cost the region an estimated £4.7m in planning costs before the end of 2017. The contentious
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The proposals have now gone out for a public consultation, which will run until 11 January next year. The Scottish government has published its draft bill on a second independence referendum. The document sets out proposals for the rules governing the referendum campaign, the conduct of the poll and the counting of votes. First Minister
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A town council is calling for a halt to the controversial consultation process involving the closure of four community hospitals across south Devon amid claims that it is misleading and flawed. Buckfastleigh councillors claim that health bosses have failed to comply with Government consultation principles and that the consultation questionnaire has been loaded with leading
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The massive shake-up of Northern Ireland’s electoral map could “wreak havoc” and is “bereft of common sense”, it has been claimed. On the eve of the first public hearing to debate the proposals, DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds warned the plans are “deeply damaging” to Belfast and leave many towns cut off from their natural
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WALES’S 22 councils should work together to deliver services in the age of austerity.That was the key message from Local Government Secretary Mark Drakeford as he outlined new proposals for the structure of councils.Instead of the widespread mergers favoured by his predecessor Leighton Andrews, Mr Drakeford advocated a plan which would not see the numbers
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The war of words over the future of Manston Airport in the UK south east has escalated with the current majority owner of the site claiming that results of an informal consultation were as “reliable as an election in North Korea”. On Tuesday, developer RiverOak Investments, a US hedge fund, said an informal consultation it had
DORSET County Council’s reorganisation consultation on plans to reduce the number of local authorities in the county from nine to two has come under fire from Bridport town councillors, who have blasted it as rushed and un-democratic. The county council are asking for residents’ views on forming two unitary authorities in Dorset – there are
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Two public footpaths have been unlawfully closed in Ely, say campaigners with Britain’s oldest national conservation body. The Open Spaces Society has complained to Cambridgeshire County Council about the unlawful closure of public paths that cross the by Network Rail line. The society’s local correspondent, Alysoun Hodges, has written to Cambridgeshire County Council, the highway
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Paul Maynard, the Conservative MP for Blackpool North and Cleveleys, has written to libraries minister Matt Hancock calling for a formal investigation into the decision to shut 29 libraries across the county including those in Thornton, Cleveleys, Lytham and Freckleton. The authority says it has to shut buildings to save cash, with reserves predicted to
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