Councillors have voted to approve their 2025/26 budget - including a 1.99 per cent council tax rise. Newcastle Borough ...

Staffordshire residents are set to pay an extra £5 a year for fire and rescue services. Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner ...

Cabinet members have agreed their final budget proposals - but further cuts may be needed if the government does not agree to ...

Birmingham City Council has been given a new £180 million 'overdraft' by the Government so it can plug a black hole in its ...

Ashworth explained the debt was partially down to the demographics of Stoke-on-Trent: "We are not strong enough economically in our city, in terms of our council tax base, to be able to meet all ...

A council leader wants an 'urgent meeting' with the directors of a collapsed pottery firm. Royal Stafford operator RST Limited has closed the Burslem factory with 'immediate effect' and is in the ...

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Schools across Stoke-on-Trent are caught up in an increasingly ... and it was unaware of any dispute between the council and ...

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Sarah Marshall, who lives in Blurton, Stoke-on-Trent, has made it her mission to ... of my daughter seeing all that," she said. The local council said graffiti vandals faced a £500 penalty ...