Hints and tips:
...Last Thursday, the Conservatives, who had been in control of Plymouth City Council and had given the go-ahead for the felling, lost almost every single seat they contested....
...The Conservatives’ continuing commitment to devolution, including to so-called “hyperlocal” bodies such as parish councils, is a welcome sign of a government that has not lost its passion for devolving....
...I live in a civil parish in Oxfordshire, smaller than Sedgley, and can list all its local attractions in order of popularity....
...Mazher Iqbal, a Sheffield city councillor, said his council was scouring budgets, including NHS winter emergency funds, to provide additional support for their own warm spaces network....
...And meanwhile, the Labour party was stacking up votes among university graduates in inner cities....
...In 2005, the council prevented a screening of Brokeback Mountain....
...unenthusiastic about a greater number of more powerful parish councils....
...This requires genuine local involvement in decision making, with powers devolved not merely to regional mayors but also to existing district, town and parish councils....
...“It’s very peaceful here, away from the coast, yet prices are going up and, aware of the sensitivity around second-home owners [causing this], we contribute to the local social club and parish council,”...
...The same research has found that places with parish councils have stronger social fabric than those without: perhaps because they feel a measure of pride and ownership....
...In May, she will open a site-specific installation at the new Galeries Lafayette store in Annecy – including a huge yellow-toned mirror – while a still-to-be-revealed collection for Ikea launches in October...
...When he was small, Benanti was a Boy Scout who played football in Trastevere, coached by his parish priest, Vincenzo Paglia....
...In July, the Welsh government announced a pilot scheme to increase council tax charges on second homes....
...Hundreds gathered outside the regional headquarters of the National Electoral Council (CNE) in the city of Guayaquil, where votes were still being counted....
...From Hollywood to Handforth Parish Council, whose chaotic, apoplectic online meeting has become a viral sensation, the power dynamics of the workplace are still too often governed by the threat of anger,...
...the mid 17th century as Britain battled outbreaks of smallpox, plague and typhus, John Graunt, widely viewed as the founder of epidemiology, sat poring over four decades of mortality records collected by parish...
...It saw Baron Haussmann’s destruction of the dense web of medieval alleys which made up the centre of old Paris, the smashing of freeways through complex city plans all over the world and London County Council...
...The last time today’s Trade Secrets author braved an election was several decades ago in student politics, where the quality of governance frequently resembled the goings-on at Handforth Parish Council that...
...Already 130 parish councils in the UK ask the public to identify fly-tipping or potholes through What3Words locations. Farmers and environmental planners use it to give precise locations in a terrain....
...Public health officials in the northern city have been fighting a rise in cases for four weeks....
...Before the June 9 protest, Oxford city council invited the college to apply for planning permission to remove the statue, which as a Grade II* listed building would normally be hard to take down....
...“It became a non-discussion subject in the pub as it would start too many arguments,” said James Body, chair of the parish council....
...Sitting in the churchyard of St Mary’s, the 250-year-old parish church of Lewisham in south-east London, she recounts how her partner would remind her she had no legal right to be in the UK....
...Mr Lowry, the cabinet member for finance at Plymouth council and a former dockyard worker, says the education boom has benefited the city....
...The district of Elbe-Elster, which includes Mr Grosser’s parish, has some of the worst demographic prospects in Germany....
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