Barbara Holdridge, co-founder of Caedmon Records that pioneered the audiobook concept, died earlier this month at her home in ...

Ms Roney, who started her position last September, went to Cannes for a speaking role with critics called "bad judgment". Ex-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith told the Daily Mail: "It shows peculiarly ...

Ms Roney's earlier absence there, though, divided opinion. Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith told the Daily Mail: ‘It shows peculiarly bad judgment.

Despite the escalating situation, Ms Roney, who assumed her role last September, was said to have been participating in a panel discussion in Cannes just one day after the strike commenced ...

Manchester City Council and its outgoing chief executive Joanne Roney are being sued by an adviser to one of the city’s property developers over an alleged racial slur. Ben Rose, of advisory firm Rose ...

Ms Roney, who is starting in Birmingham next month, September, has been accused of using the anti-semitic slur to describe property agent Ben Rose.

The hunt is on for Manchester council’s next chief executive, who will be paid £220,982, it’s been revealed. The six-figure wage is the same package as current top boss Joanne Roney’s. Ms ...

In 2022, Ms Roney was named Municipal Journal's Chief Executive of the Year in 2022, a well-respected award in the local government world. Now, with her notice period beginning, Manchester will ...

Ms Roney was made OBE in 2009 and CBE this year, both for services to local government. She will take over in Birmingham in the autumn, as BirminghamLive told yesterday.

Professor Graeme Betts has been the acting chief executive of the authority since the departure of Deborah Cadman in March. Ms Roney said: "I began my career as an apprentice at Birmingham City ...

Birmingham City Council has appointed a woman who started her career as an apprentice at the authority as its new managing director. Joanne Roney, who grew up in the Shard End area of the city ...

Ms Roney, who moved to Manchester following a nine-year stint running Wakefield council, is the first woman to serve as the city's top officer. She initially worked with veteran council leader Sir ...