BRISTOL
A confidential internal audit into the council’s diversity leadership programme found “no assurance that the supplier offers value for money”.

ORKNEY
The lack of public toilets at the 4,000-year-old stone circle the Ring of Brodgar has resulted in a strong stench of human faeces.

LOCAL GOVERNMENT
A survey of local authority chief executives reveals dire dynamics in local government, with bad behaviour “rampant” among councillors.

HOUNSLOW
A builder has accused a feisty Tory councillor of inappropriately influencing officers and running a secret campaign against his development proposal.

LAMBETH
Greens criticised the old Labour leadership for hiking councillor allowances, but now, with a Green leader in place, they are averse to belt-tightening.


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