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Potholes will be close to the top of the list of priorities for Lancashire's incoming Reform UK leadership - but they will also have to keep an eye on the pennies. With issues such as road repairs, ...
A new Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) office in Blackpool that will be home to 3,000 staff has completed. The £100m, 215,000 sq ft workspace – which forms phase three of the wider £350m ...
Champions Birmingham set a new EFL points record and racked up another club landmark by beating Blackpool 2-0 in their penultimate Sky Bet League One fixture before promotion to the Championship ...
Trump’s approach signals that power has been diverted away from Congress and that the executive branch is assuming increased lawmaking authority — a trend that will likely continue into future ...
These three councils were Labour-run Blackpool Unitary Authority and Tameside council as well as the Tory-run London Borough of Bexley. The council pointed out that the headline figures from RAC ...
unitary and metropolitan councils, and six directly elected mayors. Heading to the polls in May, voters will be choosing representatives for local government, parish councillors, local authority ...
Only one of Lancashire’s 15 councils has sent the government its own specific preferences for the outcome of a forthcoming local authority shake-up ... to ministers at this stage in the process.
Blackpool, which has a population of 142,000 ... “I’ve seen the establishment of a unitary authority with an elected mayor work very well in Manchester, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t work ...
In Lancashire this could mean the county council, the 12 district/borough councils and Blackpool and Blackburn with ... are being considered across the county including unitary models ranging from one ...
In Lancashire this could mean the county council, the 12 district/borough councils and Blackpool and Blackburn with ... are being considered across the county including unitary models ranging from one ...
Since its introduction in 2022, the fund has been under the control of the county’s dozen district and two unitary ... the authority’s leader, Phil Riley; and one from Blackpool Council ...
District and borough council leaders across Suffolk have united in opposing plans for a single unitary authority in the county. Suffolk County Council announced in February its preference for a ...