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Chris Welsford speak further on the £4.8m accounting error for the County Hall remodelling
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Live coverage of the meeting as it happens at County Hall
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Contract discussion for Director of Resources under discussion
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Changes to the council's Corporate Plan to be discussed at Full Council on 15th June. Document embedded for your convenience.
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After the recent drop in Island KS 2 SATS results, here's some background on the person the council is paying £100k+/year explicitly to improve the exam results
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Will Cllr Pugh agree that the Independent budget submitted to full council on 23rd February was legal and balanced. In the past he has refuted this, despite it being signed off by the Section 151 Officer.
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VB will be putting VB contributors centre stage at a conference about Investigative Journalism today, where we're sitting on a panel with some heavyweight investigative journalists
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Head of Education has his contract terminated a year early next month as education services merged with Southampton.
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We question whether there are parallels with the story about the head of the Student Loans company, Ed Lester, and the two stories we ran last year about council employees being paid through limited companies.
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Questions on this are being raised in Parliament. The council's top man, Steve Beynon, needs to answer question on this.
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Steve Beynon's attempt at drawing a line under the long-running Dave Burbage Consulting Ltd matter
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Steve Beynon answers the questions posed by Retired Hack in his opinion piece about 'Ltd Company Loopholes'
