Westminster residents will lose £38 million over the next 2 years - £21.1 million in 2011/12 and £16.9 million in 2012/13 – as the Government has taken the axe to local services. Every Council service will be hit by the Government cuts, including nearly £2 million cut from Early Years provision, hitting children’s services hard. Labour Councillors say that the c...

A TOTAL of £1 million was spent by the Scottish Government on advertising and marketing in only one month, new figures have revealed.

A marvellous article by Simon Jenkins in the Evening Standard today, which condemns the whole fiasco that has become the G20 summit. As he writes "A day and a half of summitry, parroting meetings held by the same participants every month, will cost Londoners £7 million in police overtime and a further £12 million in other costs. That is apart from the disruption. The event displays the...

Vale of Clwyd AM, Ann Jones, has welcomed Assembly Government investment worth £12.6 million for new equipment at the North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd. Labour's Health Minister Edwina Hart made the announcement yesterday. The Assembly Government funding will go towards replacing two linear accelerators (Linacs) and to replace a CT simulator. The new Linacs will i...

Northern Rock has weighed in with six month losses of £724 million. £122 million of that is current loss, on top of the £602 million of losses on past poor loans. No-one in government seems to think that is either bad or surprising. Forecasters think the

THE unemployment total burst through the two million mark for the first time in 12 years yesterday, with experts predicting the figure could climb as high as 3.3 million nex

Tom Clougherty: For the £12 billion cost of Darling's 2.5 percent VAT cut, he could have raised the personal allowance to £10,000 instead. That would have taken 4.3 million people out of income tax, and saved a typical dual-earner family £133 per month. From a government that pose as champions of the poor, their conduct has been little short of criminal. And now, with the final demands beginnin...

The University of Aberdeen has been awarded £12.4 million of funding over five years to investigate how advances in digital technologies can transform rural communities, society and business.

Just imagine: You are Gordon Brown. You have spent £167 million on advertising, £29 million on PR and sponsorship and £12 million on “strategic consultancy”, totalling nearly £400m on spin in the past year. What would you expect to be getting for it? A positive personal rating? A poll boost? A donations rise? Instead you get terrible poll

US unions grew by nearly half a million members in 2008 according to the latest US Government figures, increasing the rate of unionisation from 12.1% to 12.4% in a year. It’s their best year for a quarter of a century, and the main reason seems to be that in some states, it got easier to