GLASGOW
With a £1.6bn debt burden and £80m overspend, surely the SNP-led city council is keeping a tight grip on its purse strings? Of course not!

SHEFFIELD
Typically tree-hugging councillors have enraged residents by backing plans to bulldoze the green belt, earmarking 14 such sites in its draft local plan.

BARKING & DAGENHAM
A turncoat trio has formed the first Green opposition, slamming Labour's lost "moral compass" over Gaza and anti-migrant rhetoric.

SOMERSET
Dismay at a council cock-up which left a terminally ill – and entirely innocent – former councillor facing debt collectors and two separate legal cases.

NORWICH
Farcical scenes as the local authority attempts to offload landmark arts venue the Halls to new management, only to repeatedly bungle the process.

BRIGHTON & HOVE
Rotten goings on in Rottingdean as the council threatens to close the library despite a 3,600-signature petition against the move.

NEWCASTLE
Whiffs of whitewash as a long-awaited taxpayer-funded investigation into claims Labour ex-leader Nick Kemp bullied an officer remains unpublished.


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