Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Calling for fundamental reform of the way local government raises funding, she noted that councils needed an emergency cash injection of up to £4bn to stabilise their finances and safeguard services over...
...Meanwhile, Kent county council, which is in deepening financial trouble, put its 200-year-old county hall in Maidstone, Sessions House, up for sale late last year....
...This was in spite of the government granting £500mn in emergency funding last month....
...Tony Ball, education lead at Essex county council, said three schools in his county, one of the worst-affected areas, had no contingency plans....
...Late on Wednesday, Maui County officials confirmed that 36 fatalities had been discovered “amid the active Lahaina fire”....
...Dr Douglas Kelley, a land surface modeller at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said: “The number of deaths and evacuations suggest it’s more than local emergency services normally cope with....
...The local airport is closed and no driving is permitted on the venue except for emergency vehicles....
...So preparing a company and the area that they operate in for things like earthquakes, extreme weather events and any other kind of civil defence emergency....
...Roger Gough, leader of Kent county council, and Sue Chandler, its cabinet member for integrated children’s services, said they had long argued that “other local authorities must accept their fair share of...
...Go deeper: Read the full 98-page criminal indictment from Fulton County....
...The US Treasury Department has allowed transactions in the county’s oil and gas sector to resume for six months....
...Friday Europe: New rules created by the Digital Services Act kick in today....
...Nearly one million households on universal credit take out budgeting advance loans to pay for more expensive emergencies like boiler repairs or help getting a job....
...In many counties across the US, there is no nearby alternative to smaller banks . . . there is no GSIB branch in roughly two-thirds of counties, making up 10% of US GDP . . . for those same counties, the...
...President Joe Biden late on Monday declared an emergency in New York, authorising the Federal Emergency Management Agency and Department of Homeland Security to co-ordinate relief efforts....
...The government has said that it remains in regular contact with “ferry operators, the French authorities, and the Kent Resilience Forum” — the county’s emergency planning group....
...The number of Hamptons homes listed on Vrbo and Airbnb increased from 2,911 in April 2022 to 3,557 in April 2023 — in the town of Amagansett listings have increased by 38 per cent, according to AirDNA, which...
...If you have really clear leadership and direction, the civil service will come behind you. That is what it’s there to do. Civil service doesn’t set policy, it implements policy....
...At least 25 people were killed, according to emergency services....
...The US Federal Emergency Management Agency had sent 700 officials to Florida and brought 3.5mn litres of water and 3.7mn meals to nearby Alabama, as well as having generators on hand and 128,000 gallons...
...Storm surges reaching from between 12 to 18 feet are expected to hit the south-west Florida coastline from Englewood to Bonita Beach, the US National Weather Service said....
...Texoma said in a statement that it “no longer contracted with APP for ER physician services”. APP’s removal paved the way for the doctors to set up their own staffing company at the hospital....
...Taxi drivers are given information on services for vulnerable customers....
...The narrow rescue hinged entirely on the familiarity of San Francisco’s emergency services with a raging epidemic that has meant fentanyl overdoses are now so common that the city has expanded distribution...
...Russia has adopted China’s renminbi as one of the main currencies for its international reserves, overseas trade and even some personal banking services....
International Edition