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Time is ticking for local government in Surrey as we know it with the long-awaited government decision on how the county will be split due by the end of October. The high-anticipated decision on how ...

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Stone community leaders have backed proposals for the town to be included in a new southern Staffordshire council - and have called for action to secure assets such parks and meeting spaces for the ...

A Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Professor Emmanuel Ojo, has said that what Nigeria urgently needs is a non-centralised federal system that empowers state ...

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Councillors in Warwickshire have decided they should form a new "super council" and become part of the West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA). That was the conclusion of county councillors after four ...

MEMBERS of Cumberland Council’s executive committee have agreed that Cumbria should have a Mayoral Combined Authority at a meeting in Carlisle today (Tuesday, October 14). And members of Westmorland & ...

Trust in the Scottish Government has plunged to the lowest level since devolution and there has been a sharp decline in satisfaction with the NHS. A damning new survey has revealed a massive fall in ...

John Swinney has warned that Scotland has “reached the limits of devolution” as he unveiled a new paper setting out his economic case for independence. But Scotland's First Minister denied that the ...

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