Councils across England are going bankrupt because of poor financial management rather than a lack of funding, according to a watchdog. Lord Morse, chair of the Office for Local Government (Oflog), said that all town halls in special measures were failing because
Construction of the mammoth council house, so large it has its own postcode, began in 1874 when the first stone was laid by city mayor Joseph Chamberlain, one of the great statesmen of the Victorian era. It could now be included in
Waste of cash …bus station was moved a matter of yards. (Image: ) It must be pretty difficult to bankrupt an entire city. Let alone one with a population of more than one million people and an annual budget of £3.2 billion.
A businessman has left a council in financial ruin after cheating it out of tens of millions of pounds, according to a report. An investigation revealed that Liam Kavanagh went on a spending spree with the borrowed cash to buy luxury goods,
The San Francisco African American Reparations Advisory Committee, which advises the city on developing a reparation plan, released the proposal for the mammoth $50bn payout in a draft report. Critics say if adopted it could bankrupt the city and say California was