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Battle to overturn car parking hike across north Norfolk lost - as council also votes not to fund Weybourne cable appeal
A last ditch effort from campaigners to get controversial hikes to parking charges across north Norfolk thrown out has been lost after finance chiefs rubber stamped their budget.
South Norfolk Councillors approve council tax freeze
South Norfolk Council has set a fourth council tax freeze in five years.
Norwich MP Simon Wright welcomes extra help for carers
City MP Simon Wright has asked the minister of care services what the government is doing to help identify and support carers in Norwich.
Norwich City Council agrees council tax freeze
Families in Norwich will see no increase in the share of the council tax they pay to City Hall next year after the authority agreed a freeze.
Costessey residents make plea for Beechcroft Surgery to be saved at packed-out public meeting
A clear message was last night sent by residents and parish councillors about the future of a doctors’ surgery - please don’t close it.
Norfolk bus fare petition delivered to 10 Downing Street
A “significant step” has been made in a campaign to convince the government to plug a multi-million pound funding gap in Norfolk caused by concessionary bus fares, council leaders said after presenting a 23,500-signature petition at Downing Street.
- Community groups running out of time to apply for Broadland District Council funding
- Revealed: How four companies turned down ‘loss-making’ Norwich City Council Fountains contract
- Occupy Norwich camp to be cleared today
- Hikes to car parking fees in Cromer, Sheringham, Wells, Holt, North Walsham and Fakenham branded a ‘stealth tax’
- Cash boost for Norfolk schools
- South Norfolk Council set to join shared legal team service
- North Norfolk District Council warned it cannot afford controversial Dudgeon windfarm cable appeal
- South Norfolk Liberal Democrats propose 2pc council tax cut
- The truth behind Norfolk’s child poverty figures
- Norwich City Council acts to stop village green challenge from scuppering homes at Bowthorpe
- Outcry at plans to turn business into house in Southwold
- Elected crime commissioners will put Norfolk people ‘in the driving seat’ of their police, says minister Nick Herbert
- Prime minister David Cameron praises Norwich’s SOS Bus as an ‘innovative’ solution in the battle against Britain’s ‘scandal’ of drunkenness
- Norwich City Council awards £290,000 contract to help homeless
- Norwich City Council leaders issue council tax warning
- No prayer ban at Norfolk County Council
- Plans lodged for new homes off Plumstead Road, Norwich
- Norwich City Council set to tighten up rules on social housing
- Norfolk business bosses urged to sign up for county council £3m apprenticeships scheme
- Norfolk council plans staff pay reward if services improve while saving cash
- Prime Minister David Cameron set to praise Norwich’s ‘innovative’ SOS Bus project in speech on the ‘scandal’ of drunkenness and alcohol abuse in this country
- Winter weather delays Holt roadworks
- Norfolk County Council’s Fred Corbett tells of struggle with government
- Norfolk County Council freezes its share of council tax
- Norfolk County Council fined £80,000 over child information blunder
- PHOTO GALLERY AND VIDEO: Revamp plans for Norwich’s Westlegate House revealed
- North Norfolk District Council’s charity clothing collection with Kier raises thousands for Salvation Army
- Council tax freeze for Norfolk as County Hall agrees budget with £44m worth of savings
- Norfolk County Council fined £80,000 for sending sensitive information to the wrong address
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Revealed: How four companies turned down ‘loss-making’ Norwich City Council Fountains contract
Four companies expressed a “serious interest” in taking on the £4.6m contract which collapsed company Fountains had with Norwich City Council: but turned down the chance because it was losing money, it has emerged.
- Occupy Norwich camp to be cleared today
- Hikes to car parking fees in Cromer, Sheringham, Wells, Holt, North Walsham and Fakenham branded a ‘stealth tax’
- Costessey residents make plea for Beechcroft Surgery to be saved at packed-out public meeting
- Norwich City Council agrees council tax freeze
- Battle to overturn car parking hike across north Norfolk lost - as council also votes not to fund Weybourne cable appeal
- South Norfolk Council set to join shared legal team service
- Community groups running out of time to apply for Broadland District Council funding
- Outcry at plans to turn business into house in Southwold
- South Norfolk Councillors approve council tax freeze
