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Plymouth hosts local government chairman

Plymouth has been rolling out the welcome mat to the man who is the national voice of local government.

The Chairman of the Local Government Association, Sir Merrick Cockell is in the city on Friday (11 October) to hear about the Council’s ambitious plans for the city and how it is taking a co-operative approach to transforming services.

Sir Merrick met with Plymouth City...

Plymouth council leader warns of damage of further local government cuts

Tudor Evans, the Leader of Plymouth City Council and 151 other council leaders from across the country have called for the Coalition to re-think plans to make futher cut-backs to local government funding.

In a letter to The Observer newspaper, published yesterday (Sunday 16 June 2013), Cllr Evans joined other cross-party senior local government leaders and Local Government Authority (...