BROKE COUNCILS
Several councils that won big in December succeeded mainly in begging for even more in the latest round of exceptional financial support.

SOMERSET
The council is weighed down by a £40m agency staff bill – just after local government minister Alison McGovern wrote to it with "significant concerns".

BARKING & DAGENHAM
The east London borough accidentally shared names and addresses of thousands of temporary housing tenants in a response to a freedom of information request.

WILTSHIRE
The Lib Dem council is justifying a 200 percent hike in Sunday parking charges by using equalities law – causing churchgoers to accuse it of unfair treatment.

LEICESTER
The Labour council has finally coughed up after a watchdog rebuked it for refusing to award modest compensation to two families it had failed.

WARWICKSHIRE
Reform's teenage county council leader George Finch narrowly survived a no-confidence vote but was publicly rebuked in a meeting.


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