Council Leader Alan Taylor has promised to look into whether or not Rochdale Council should sign the 'Nottingham Declaration' on Climate Change. He has claimed however that Rochdale Council is already showing their commitment to Climate Change in various ways and believes that some elements of the 'Nottingham Declaration' are a publicity stunt.
Commenting on surveys released by the Royal Institution of Chartered of Surveyors (RICS) and the Trades Union Congress (TUC), Paul Holmes MP, Liberal Democrat Housing Spokesman said
A senior Newcastle Liberal Democrat is backing the 'Fair Pay for Police Officers' campaign.
Kent Trading Standards has been made aware of a scam involving consumers being telephoned by people alleging to be from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) asking for personal and financial information. This includes asking for bank account details in order for the OFT "to reclaim bank charges on behalf of consumers".
So Brentwood borough is now set to lose its identity in a virtual amalgamation with a county council which has a hundred times its budget and a hundred times more clout! This marriage of inconvenience involving the appointment of the Essex county chief executive also as chief executive of Brentwood council might bring into play conflicts of interest in which the larger partner would likely prevail. This experiment could go badly wrong.
The Conservative masters of spin are hard at work as they do their best to convince us of their latest cunning plan. One minute they are telling us what a great job Brentwood Borough Council is doing providing local services. Next minute they are announcing that the Borough Council is going into a joint partnership with Essex County Council to provide a one stop shop for local services. They follow this up with the news that we are going to have one Chief Executive running both authorities, who just happens to be the County's Chief Executive.