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WEST NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
The wife-beating former council leader was a fêted guest at the local Tories' Christmas party, celebrating with the new leader and several cabinet members.

NEWHAM
The elected mayor of the east London borough is taking the authority she has been running since 2018 to an employment tribunal.

BRADFORD-ON-AVON
Villagers who lost their legal fight to prevent the town council felling much of a patch of ancient woodland face crippling legal costs.

LIVERPOOL
Four years after being arrested by Merseyside Police, former elected mayor Joe Anderson remains unaware of what is in store for him.

NEWCASTLE
Labour city councillors in have backed a call from opposition members for an inquiry into the running of their own dysfunctional authority.

HAVERING
The east London council has finally divulged (most of) its internal report into racism at the authority after a three-year legal battle to keep it under wraps.


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