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Councillors elected to run a financially stricken city have warned that local democracy is under threat as they no longer have full control of budget decisions affecting the lives of hundreds of thousands of peopleDavid Mellen, the Labour leader of Nottingham city council, said elected members did not have the final say over devastating funding gap that led to them approving more than 500 redundancies, council tax rises and millions of pounds of cuts last week.The levelling up secretary, Michael Gove, last month sent commissioners into the struggling east Midlands authority, which declared itself effectively bankrupt in November. [Last year,] we banished the Tory party because no Conservative councillors were elected and yet somehow, by the
stanley thermobecher backdoor, people appointed by the Conservative government have con
stanley thermoskannen siderable levels of power in our city, said Mellen. Our mandate has been impinged upon. These commissioners, and by extension our officers, have more power currently. The commissioners arrived after a government-appointed improvemen
stanley cup t board spent seven months overseeing the councils efforts to balance its books. The last act of the board was to give the authoritys unelected senior officers the power to effectively write the budget. We tried to amend the budget but we werent given permission, said Mellen. Usually, officers and council members work together. We come up with an agreed set of [budget] proposals to be brought forward to consultation. This year that didnt h Ccni Covid deepens south and north of England inequalities, study finds
Climate change campaigners pledged today to set up a permanent protest camp at Kingsnorth, near Rochester in Kent, if the government allows a large new coal-fired power sta
vaso stanley tion to be built there.Their defiant statement came as the police said they had arrested 100 protesters and charg
stanley usa ed 46 of them during the week-long protest that culminated on Saturday at the existing power station on the site, run by German energy company E.ON.Most of those charged were accused of obstruction offences. The cost of policing the protest is believed to have been over 拢1m.Four people were arrested after they managed to get inside the grounds of the power station on Saturday, and 19 others climbed over the outer perimeter fence. But a spokesman for E.ON said the protesters had not affected its power output.Assistant Chief Constable Gary Beautridge of Kent police denied claims from protesters of heavy-handedness by some of the 1,400 police officers from 26 forces who were deployed to the camp. Our policy was that policing was proportionate to this threat, he said. B
stanley uk ecause of the level of resistance, officers were authorised to carry batons during two days of the protest. There are strict legal standards for their use and we gave clear warnings when any specialist team was deployed, which is our policy. Those intent on breaking the law had the choice and opportunity to stop. A spokesman for the Climate Camp said that there had been widespread condemnation of tacti
