Sentences with phrase «own council leaders»

According to the local council leader, who spoke to the Press Association, Farroukh was brought up at the property by foster parents.

Council leader for Kensington and Chelsea, Nick Paget - Brown, has dismissed suggestions sprinklers weren't installed during a big refurbishment of the block to save money and says the council is consulting on what to do with its other towers and estates that need regeneration.

A similar enterprise at the Evangelical Academy at Bad Boll, near Stuttgart, Germany, has made a significant start toward bridging the gap between the Church and the industrial worker by inviting representatives of the Trade Unions and Workers» Councils, including sometimes communists, to discuss the implications of Christianity, while on other occasions employers and Workers» Council leaders have met together for mutual discussion of the applications of the gospel to industry.

Council leader Douglas Campbell said: «We're committed to delivering for communities across South Ayrshire and this new project is a great example of looking at new ways of working to help give our children the brightest possible future.»

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A Christian charity that helps homeless people has expressed disapproval of a council leader's plan to clear homeless people from the streets of Windsor for the royal wedding.

Council leader Nickie Aiken said the scheme was developed after wealthy residents said they wanted to pay more.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Chairman Rod Sims provides an update on grocery issues at the Australian Food & Grocery Council Leaders Forum in Canberra.

The district was awarded the 2010 - 11 State School Health Award as well as the Superintendent's Platinum Level School Health Award, while teacher Dean Tessitore — who is also a Wellness Council leader at the school — won Fuel Up to Play 60 Program Advisor of the year for Louisiana.

The chair of the communities and local government committee, whose Sheffield South East constituency borders Rotherham, said the failure to implement child protection policies means at least one officer should join Labour's council leader Roger Stone in losing their job.

Put simply, there will be no «Mancunian laws» designed and implemented by the Greater Manchester directly - elected mayor or the cabinet comprised of the ten council leaders of the combined authority.

A series of letters between council leaders and Mr Pickles, uncovered under the Freedom of Information Act, contained the bleak warning that the «unfair» cuts would have a «potentially devastating» effect on their communities.

For most Labour MPs and council leaders 2016 has been a depressing year.

Mr Pickles and transport secretary Philip Hammond have written to council leaders asking them to remove the signs.

There is only one female council leader in Greater Manchester.

The warning comes as council leaders argue the government's 24 - hour drinking experiment has been a «catastrophic mistake».

First, in the 1970s and 80s the role of Committee chairs were strengthened and the powers of Council Leaders and Council Chief Executives grew.

The price of the deal is an elected mayor, who from 2017, will oversee significant sums of devolved spending, answerable to a cabinet made up of the ten council leaders of the Greater Manchester authorities.

Now walking through Camden with the local council leader, she laments how HS2 will impact the area.

Ministers are now calling for local authorities to do more to help reduce carbon emissions and tackle air quality, and are writing to council leaders to remind them about the scheme.

Council leaders are attacking Whitehall's model of departmental funding as outdated, as they demand greater use of community budgets.

The Communities Secretary isn't always an emollient figure, but the former Bradford Council leader is a veteran fixer, and friends tell me that he relished the chance to go to the chamber and quell an upset.

Over the weekend, Alexander, the beleaguered Lib Dem MP and Chief Secretary to the Treasury, openly urged Tory and Labour voters in his Highland's seat to support his bid to hold it against an insurgent Scottish National party challenger, Highlands council leader Drew Hendry.

17 of those signing are Council leaders.

A directly - elected metro mayor will have powers and responsibilities to make strategic decisions across whole city regions, in contrast to existing city mayors (which are also directly elected) or local council leaders that only make decisions for, and on behalf of, their local authority.

Following a successful «yes» vote in a local referendum, a directly elected mayor is established to replace the council leader.

However I am assured that the mood at a meeting on Downing Street last week with a large number of Conservative council leaders was very upbeat with a warm welcome for the Localism Bill.

It should be noted there are over 40 Lib Dem council leaders so they not constitute a majority.

The electorate of Stoke - on - Trent voted to remove the post of elected mayor on 23 October 2008, to be replaced with a system of council leader and cabinet.

The new City Council leaders on all matters real estate, construction, housing and buildings will discuss their priorities, pending bills and newly enacted legislation.

In Northampton there was anger that Council leaders had refused to attend a public meeting to discuss proposed «improvements» to the Market Square.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

'' Who Governs Merseyside project sees Liverpool Council leader Joe Anderson emerge as early front - runner», Liverpool Daily Post, 7 October 2011.

More than half of adults from the West Midlands (53 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than council leaders.

To what extent, if at all, do you agree or disagree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders?

Even more striking from a political perspective was that Cuomo confirmed a rumored meeting with council leaders on the Housing Authority last month, and promised to allow them to guide his decision on how to intercede in the city's sprawling public housing network.»

Dartford Council leader Cllr Jeremy Kite, whose officers helped to bring the case, told the Daily Express:

Clegg calmed the situation by announcing the Council leader would speak to them after the meeting.

The Council Leader, Lord True, said:

More than half of adults in the Sheffield City Region (56 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leaders, while a quarter (24 per cent) disagree.

Three in five of those living in Greater Manchester (59 per cent) agree that the new metro mayor should have greater powers than local council leader.

The 119 council leaders» Observer letter was a fully bipartisan effort.

It is interesting that efficiency is such a high priority for both while chief executives are more concerned about public perception than elected council leaders.

And yet, Dawson suggests, «one extremely out - of - touch politician (Osborne) can overturn an electorate in less than two weeks of scheming», with the collusion of a «cabal of jumped up» council leaders whose main loyalty is not to Manchester but Whitehall.

Other deprived cities have council leaders who make «jaws of death» presentations about rising demand for service areas vs limited revenues that produce problems with the funding of statutory services.

As to directly elected council leaders, this is totally unworkable.

Westminster City Council leader Nickie Aiken described the installation on its bridge as a «sensible and proportionate» measure and said the council is working closely with the Metropolitan Police and security services.

In fact, the correct answers to the survey question are: Council leaders believe the top challenges to local government today are: increasing efficiency (58 per cent), recession (52 per cent), public perception (52 per cent), frontline services (50 per cent), financial independence (37 per cent).

There was uproar today after a council leader in Windsor called for a crackdown on rough sleepers before the royal wedding in May.

The Council Leader, Sir Richard Leese, describes it in glowing detail here.