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WALTHAM FOREST
Another London borough can be added to the list of those whose council homes have serious issues which put tenants' lives in danger.

REDBRIDGE
The interim council chief exec has resigned but says his departure has no connection with the ructions surrounding councillor (and local MP) Jas Athwal.

DERBYSHIRE
After spending more than £500,000 on consultants, the county council has been found to be failing young people with special educational needs and disabilities.

TOWER HAMLETS
The government has stopped short of imposing commissioners to oversee the authority – instead, two unpaid ministerial "envoys" are being sent in.

BRECKLAND
The district council in Norfolk has quietly scrapped Breckworld, one of two apps designed to support tourism and increase high street footfall.

SUTTON
Another new Lib Dem MP has appointed a political donor to a publicly funded job as one of his parliamentary assistants at Westminster.

EDINBURGH
Outrage after the Lib Dem victor of a city council by-election resigned her seat within days and quietly put her £730,000 house in the ward on the market.


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