The highest daily cost of home-to-school transport for any individual pupil was £969 a day for Camden. Lincolnshire £650. Redbridge £630. Gloucestershire £603.92. East Sussex £577.40. Brighton and Hove £500. Dorset £481.65. Buckinghamshire £480.
Labour held seats in Haringey, Lambeth and Tamworth.
An independent gained a seat from the Lib Dems on Highland Council.
The Conservatives lost a seat to the ib Dems in Milton Keynes but gained a seat from the SNP in South Ayrshire. Labour lost a seat to the Lib Dems in Colchester.
The Conservatives lost a seat to Labour in Lancashire and a seat to an independent in Swale.
The way to motivate staff is to treat each of them as an individual, with flexibile conditions and a pay offer to reward success and hard work.
The Lib Dems gained a seat from the Conservatives in Shropshire. The Conservatives gained a seat from Labour in Broadlands and a seat from the Green Party in Spelthorne.
The problem for the Council is not that it is taxing too little. It is not that is has been unfairly treated. The difficulty is that it is spending too much.
Labour gained a seat from the Conservatives in Derbyshire.
For there to have been only eight stabbings at this year’s Carnival is remarkably low, given that two million people attended.
Labour gained a seat from the Conservatives in Dudley. The Lib Dems gained a seat from the independents in the Isle of Wight.
In Wales and London, socialist politicians have begun to see the consequences of squeezing the private rented sector.
Labour lost a seat to an independent in Middlesbrough. The Lib Dems held a seat in St Albans.
The educational benefits are well established. But progress will be derisory until the social worker veto is removed.
Practical cost-effective measures, such as using good quality paint on exterior walls, are being missed.