CAMBRIDGESHIRE
The cash-strapped county council is owed £127m by a housebuilding company in which it is the sole shareholder, with no solution in sight.

HOUNSLOW
A councillor in the London borough is under scrutiny as a proceeds of crime hearing begins into her husband, sentenced to 12 years for fraud and forgery.

DEVON
With swearing, shouting and physical confrontations between councillors, is sleepy Teignbridge home to Britain's most dysfunctional district council?

ESSEX
Castle Point council seems curiously uninterested in investigating more than £1m of "potentially unlawful" payments authorised by its late chief executive.

YORK & NORTH YORKSHIRE
The combined authority's elected mayor is under fire after spending tens of thousands on a "vain and pointless" new logo.

HERTSMERE
After a spate of bizarre behaviour, the leader of the Hertfordshire town's borough council faces a no-confidence motion.

BLACKBURN-WITH-DARWEN
A councillor in the Lancashire unitary authority owes more than £6,600 in council tax arrears due to a "mix-up", but can't say when it will be paid off.


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