Chris Naylor has moved from suburban Barnet, and the London borough’s controversial outsourcing of public services, to be chief executive at working class Barking & Dagenham, where he sees...
Nearly a quarter of a million empty homes could be brought back into use if councils could levy taxes on properties left vacant for more than a year, the Institute for Public Policy North said today.
Liverpool is undergoing a business-led transformation under its newly elected mayor. Can the makeover be made to work for all its citizens, asks Peter Hetherington