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Top stories in this issue (1610):

CROYDON
Bus passengers in south London face a third winter exposed to the wind and rain, thanks to the latest business misadventure at the cash-strapped council.

BRISTOL
An official at the US embassy in London is campaigning for her favourite city leader to win World Mayor 2023: none other than Bristol's Marvin Rees!

WARRINGTON
The Labour council has received a bollocking from minister Lee Rowley over the authority's staggering debts of more than £1.8bn.

SOMERSET
Replacing five authorities with one "unitary" council was supposed to reduce costs, but auditors say it may have to declare itself insolvent by February.

FROME
Somerset wasted thousands of pounds in continuing a legal battle to foist an unwanted development on the centre of the agreeable town of Frome.

EAST STAFFORDSHIRE
The council has had to pay back £398,447 paid by a builder as mitigation for the negative effects of a project, after it failed to decide how to spend it.

GLASGOW & EDINBURGH
The two SNP-run councils have announced deep cuts to services while also overseeing huge bonuses to bosses of "arms-length" management organisations.


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