Wiltshire Council is holding roadshows around the county to hear residents' views on what matters to them as well as giving people a chance to nominate a local hero to carry the Olympic Torch.
If you want to set up a stall selling flowers on a street in Salisbury you can just go ahead. In Trowbridge or Chippenham you would first need to get a permit.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has joined with the Anthony Nolan Trust and Alice Pyne to ask local residents to join the bone marrow register.
The list of libraries which the Conservative administration on Surrey County Council plans to force local communities to run, or be closed, has grown from 10 to 19 in a report for the September meeting of the County's Cabinet.
Conservatives and Labour joined forces in today's Wiltshire Council Environment Committee meeting to close down any in-depth study on the car parking fiasco. Liberal Democrats called for real scrutiny of the Conservatives' decisions in a separate Task Group, but were refused.
The number of vehicles reported as abandoned has plummeted by 62 per cent over the last five years according to Wiltshire Council.