According to their own reports, allowances for our volunteer councillors cost the tax payer £244,920 last year, fact from the audit and accounting committee which met on Monday. A good slice went ...

As I understand it, the people of Manchester didn't want devolution and didn't want a Mayor and they got both, plus a sky-high and ever increasing council tax bill, to pay for people, like Coun ...

So I switched on YouTube to watch the Full Council. Now I know why no one is interested in politics. Democracy is dead. I ...

However, it’s a shame the story doesn't enlighten the reader as to what this really means, apart from staff have had some training to tell them to be climate friendly. Maybe Coun. Maggie Lishman ...

However modest, the independent panel which recommends an increase, which it has again this year according to a report to Full Council, is out of touch with public feeling. In his report, the ...

It's just as I read his weary column (cue let's blame everyone else for the state of the country, yet I love Burnley so much), everything seems to be based around the Labour party. Call me cynical ...