Council confirms Fitzgerald suspension
Ged Fitzgerald, chief executive of Liverpool City Council, has been suspended following a meeting of the local authority's appointments and disciplinary panel.
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Police arrest senior council figures
Four senior local government figures including leader of Lancashire and chief executive of Liverpool have been bailed by Lancashire Police until 19 June following arrests on Monday in connection with a long-running investigation into alleged irregularities relating to contract awards.
As-it-happened: Labour takes both city region mayoral seats
Andy Burnham and Steve Rotheram have won convincingly the first elections for mayors of Greater Manchester and Liverpool City Region.
Voters go to polls
All the action as historic elections take place for Metro Mayors as part of devolution agreements for Liverpool City Region and Greater Manchester and politicians look for signals of how the general election will go in June.
Manchester gets lion’s share of £556m Northern funding
The Government has announced how the North’s £556m latest Local Growth Fund allocation will be split across 11 Local Enterprise Partnerships, with Greater Manchester receiving the highest award at £130m.
AS 2016: Science audits to spotlight Northern capabilities
The Government named its next four science and innovation audit areas in the North, as part of a £4.7bn push into research and development initiatives.
AS 2016: Hammond backs housing with infrastructure spend
In his first Autumn Statement as Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond highlighted housing as one of the Government’s four areas seen as “critical for improving productivity”, allocating funds to support infrastructure and speed up construction.
Councils vie for share of £18m housing pot
Local authorities have less than four weeks to bid for grants from an £18m fund, launched on Friday by minister Gavin Barwell who also confirmed the creation of housing zones in Blackburn, Burnley and Wirral Waters.
EU: Leave vote sweeps North West
More than three quarters of the North West’s local authority areas declared in favour of leaving the European Union.
EU: Industry enters period of uncertainty
The first comments coming in from business leaders forecast short-term damage to the economy and call for a clear plan to reassure investors.
