Sentences with phrase «county councils»

BBC correspondents have predicted on air that the party might just hold on to one of the four county councils it was defending.

In 2009 the local elections held on the same day as the European Parliament election were for the 27 English county councils covering all the shire districts, and for seven unitary authorities, including five that were holding their first election after having converted from a two - tier county and district structure.

The Conservatives have swept to power in all of the Anglia region's County Councils with increased and secure majorities on every one.

Money brought in by supplementary service charges helped fund 20 % of overall service spending by district councils and 9 % of the overall spending by single - tier and county councils in 2011/12.

Under the Motor Car Act 1903, all road vehicles were taxed annually at a rate of 20 shillings per year, with the system administered by county councils.

«All county councils are under pressure, especially with social care - everybody understands that.

Responsibility for vehicle licensing was passed from county councils to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre in 1965.

«Next year's local elections are unitary county councils - the shires, basically.

Elections will be held on 4 May for English county councils, Welsh and Scottish councils, and the newly - created powerful regional mayoralties.

It is a single - tier unitary authority which means it runs all the local services in its area rather than being spilt between district and county councils like most of the region.

Contests are taking place in 27 English county councils and seven unitary authorities, as well as in Anglesey.

Elections will be held for 27 county councils and seven unitary authorities in England on Thursday 2 May.

There will be elections for 34 local authorities in England - mostly county councils rather than the big cities.

The local government elections will be held in 35 councils across England, including eight unitary authorities and all 27 county councils.

With local elections being held all over the country on May 2nd, these results do not look good for the Tories, who will be defending their control of 26 county councils and three unitary authorities in England in addition to the mayoralty of North Tyneside.

There are elections in 27 County Councils.

This year's local elections are overwhelmingly for county councils in England.

[95] Labour subsequently gained nearly 300 councillors, as well as control of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire County Councils.

In theory my ideal system would probably be district councils elected under AV, county councils abolished, regional assemblies elected under STV, parliament elected under FPTP, House of Lords abolished!

«If government does not act to stop this, then this amount could be equivalent of up to three per cent of council tax for some county councils or unitaries.»

All the seats are being contested on 27 county councils and six unitary authorities, as well as one - third of the seats in Bristol.

Healthcare in Sweden is decentralized to local county councils and municipalities.

About 90 % of the work of Swedish county councils concerns healthcare, but they also deal with other areas such as culture and infrastructure.

Northumberland County Council planning officer Frances Wilkinson, who prepared the report recommending approval for Highthorn, faced a different question.

The national government in London supports hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to release gas from shale rock, and so did the planning staff of the Lancashire County Council.

Candidates for Baltimore County Council from the Pikesville area are pledging to pursue policies to reduce crime and curtail excessive development in a district that shares a border with the city.

The Baltimore County Council is weighing whether to support a potential $ 2 million loan from the state to help build it.

Dr. Stephens has also been highly active throughout her career in industry and community activities, including serving as the Vice Chairman of the Orange County Council and National Board member of the American Electronics Association, now TechAmerica; participating on the University of California at Irvine School of the Arts Deans Advisory Council in the area of Digital Arts; and as a Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Orange County Board member.

Michael Anthony Peroutka and David Whitney, who are vying for the same seat on the Anne Arundel County Council, are members of the League of the South, an organization whose stated goal is the secession of Southern states.Peroutka also believes elected...

Harford County Executive Barry Glassman plans to ask the County Council for authority to «reallocate» a portion of the county's property recordation tax revenue.

He was elected to Vulcan County Council at the age of 19 and he has served for the past 16 years, including two years as Reeve.

They include the local government funding agencies Kommunalbanken (Norway), Kommuninvest (Sweden) and MuniFin (Finland); the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK); and six Swedish municipal or regional issuers including City of Gothenburg, the municipalities of Lund, Norrköping and Örebro, Region Skåne and Stockholm County Council.

The Cumbria County Council Pension Fund has joined the ranks of local authorities hedging their equity downside with an equity protection strategy.

A prominent civic leader in Essex has accused the county council of censoring Christian artwork in a...

The County Council said youngsters can opt for a virtual tour instead, using a computer.

John McAteer worked at South Tipperary County Council before being sacked for telling fellow workers about his faith, despite instructions from bosses not to do so.

«But here in Oxford we're not prepared to just let the situation worsen, which is why the city council has chosen to pick up an additional, non-statutory burden in tackling rough sleeping to try to plug the gap after the county council was unable to carry on funding some support due to this tightening of the purse strings by the Government.

Lucy Faithfull House, a 61 - bed homeless hostel on city council - owned land, closed in January last year after Oxfordshire County Council withdrew its annual # 500,000 funding.

A number of Church of England and Catholic schools are offering pupils a type of halal meat from animals which are not stunned before they are killed, according to the leader of the county council.

Lancashire County Council said all of the school concerned offer a non-stunned alternative, such as a fish or vegetarian option.

The county council said areas including Fellside, South Stainmore and Alston would remain cut off for another 48 hours, after heavy snowfall and slow progress in clearing the roads.

The project is a collaboration between Cuyahoga County Council, Cleveland Building and Construction Trades Council and the City of Cleveland.

It is funded through the Premier League and the PFA's Creating Chances scheme and Essex County Council.

The interview had entered its fourth hour and having regaled me with tales of his unlikely rise from an office job in Gwynedd County Council to the helm of British Cycling, Dave Brailsford was selling me his vision for Sky, a new professional cycling team, and his five - year plan to win the Tour de France with a clean British rider.

The group was launched in December 2007 in response to a recognition by Totnes Children's Centre, working in partnership with Devon County Council Children's Services and South Hams District Council, of the need to support the needs of fathers and encourage them to become more actively involved in their children's learning.

I was surprised by the breadth of different buyers — there were people from organisations you wouldn't think of as having shops, like Kent County Council.

• A significant number of Local Authorities have bought Early Years Dad Cards, including Essex County Council, England's second largest local authority, which has bought 128,000 to provide Dad Info to their fathers via 60 children's centres

Sally Real, Early Years and Childcare Area Manager, Essex County Council: «We will be distributing the Dad Cards through the county's 60 Children's Centres.

The Julie Crawford Award for Breastfeeding Support for 2017 has been won by Bernadette (Bernie) Wood, a Health Visitor from Suffolk County Council's Children's and Young Peoples Services.

He mentions a grant given by Essex County Council to six families who refused to send their children to a failing school.