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CORNWALL
A senior Tory on the council and cabinet member for the economy has landed a £70,000 job as Spaceport Cornwall's "head of future air and space".

NEWCASTLE
The council has had to take over a city hotel after allowing the company that owned it to run up a near-£40m debt over 12 years.

WEST OF ENGLAND
Heads could soon roll at the regional authority after recent events, with chief executive Stephen Peacock under fire over the hiring of a very pricey PR man.

LAMBETH
Claire Holland, Labour leader of the London borough, is making moves to weaken mayor Sadiq Khan – but her own track record is hardly exemplary.


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