Warwickshire county councillors meeting in Shire Hall today (3 September 2015) voted down a proposal to join a revived West Midlands metropolitan county council. A rare alliance of Liberal Democrat,…
Writing on his blog site John Hemming, who until May was the MP for the Birmingham Yardley constituency, backs plans for the Coventry and Warwickshire local authorities to work together. He writes…
Ahead of an Extraordinary Meeting of Warwickshire County Council this Thursday (3 Sept 2015) to decide whether or not the county should seek to enter into the proposed West Midlands Combined…
It offers up to £140 off electricity bills for people in financial hardship.
Rugby council is holding a consultation on the future of the town centre, which is a good thing but it closes just after the school holidays end which is a bad thing. Many who do not buy a local…
We have previously reported on the proposals by Birmingham and other councils to revive the old West Midlands County Council as a West Midlands Combined Authority - see articles below.
The Office of National Statistics reports that there were 560 people unemployed and claiming job seekers allowance in July 2015. That is a drop of four from June 2015 and a drop of one thousand four…
There was a strange intervention from Cllr Heather Timms (Revel & Binley Woods, Con) during the discussion about abandoning measuring the number of empty shops in Rugby Town Centre yesterday…
Paddox Cllr Jerry Roodhouse (Lib Dem) demanded assurances about the future of our shopping centre from the town's ruling tory group at this evening's cabinet meeting (18 August 2015). Referring to…
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