It is the kind of perk normally associated with fat-cat businessmen. But a manager at a cash-strapped council is being flown 365 miles to work every week - and 365 back again. Bournemouth Borough Council are paying £200,000 a year...

Fewer than one third of the firms which are meant to be helped by a £300million Government trade body fronted by the Duke of York think it is value for money, the public spending watchdog has found. A report from...

A CASH-strapped council on the south coast has provoked outrage for paying a transport boss to fly to work – from Scotland. The cost to Bournemouth council works out at the equivalent of £792 a day, meaning taxpayers are paying...

Government IT projects and failure are now so synonymous that it will come as no shock that the Commons Defence Select Committee has panned the implementation of the ‘Joint Personnel Administration’ (JPA) programme. Implemented by the Ministry of Defence in...

As the war of words escalates in the run up to the G20, London is battening down the hatches in expectation of mindless violence on the streets. Thousands of people, from many different groups and as many different countries, are...

Seven councils yesterday came under fire from the local government watchdog the Audit Commission. Criticising them for mistakes which lead to £33million of taxpayer’s money being ploughed into Icelandic banks just days before their collapse, the report ‘Risk and return:...

On the ConservativeHome blog Tim Montgomerie writes that the Conservatives understand scrapping their proposed Inheritance Tax Cut and endorsing Labour's new top rate of tax won't raise much revenue. That's good news and absolutely correct. The Inheritance Tax only raises...

It was announced yesterday that we have two million unemployed in this country. With our high tax regime – funding our big, intrusive government – naturally we don’t have the environment to attract the business to bring jobs to our...

Sandwell councillor and TaxPayers’ Alliance supporter Tony Ward made the Express and Star today after asking some very pertinent questions of council leader and champion of The Public gallery, Bob Badham. In light of the £70million redevelopment of West Bromwich,...

Today’s Express and Star has tallied up how much Black Country councils have been spending on transport for their mayors, and the grand total comes to an astonishing £215,000. And that doesn’t even include Sandwell! Most of us will associate...