Council improvement rests on strong financial management by Paul Gosling Moving from crisis management to strategic management can be worth a lot – going from being in the highest 2% to the lowest 20% of council tax charges in the case of St Helens MBC. For years members and senior officers […]
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Everyone Profits When Phil Hope – the minister for the third sector – addresses Thursday’s ‘LA Connecting London 2008’ conference on social enterprise and local government, he can expect an optimistic audience. There is a feeling both within local government and inside the social enterprise sector that there is about to be a
Questions Of Cash: IT chaos causes misery for NU customers By Paul Gosling Saturday, 21 June 2008 Q. I have a similar problem with Norwich Union to that of RS (Questions of Cash, 31 May). My policy matured on 1 May, yet despite all documentation being on time, I heard nothing from NU. I
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A Personal View by Paul Gosling It is 2020 and we are taking a walk around Ireland’s most fabulous heritage city – Derry. What do we see? The Walled City is, of course, what has made Derry a top tourism destination for visitors from across Europe, America and Asia. They walk around
River deep by Paul Gosling Visionary or short-sighted? McCormick Properties’ plans for developing over the city’s main artery, the Foyle, have divided people. Yes, we need jobs and investment – but do we need this investment at this location? It is a question that will determine how Derry will evolve
The Paul Gosling Column The Lough Neagh Fishermen’s Co-operative Society needs half a million pounds to survive. What makes this co-op distinctive is that it is the last eel fishery in Europe. Most of its production goes to the Netherlands. The co-op is in a crisis. The problem is that the young
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The Paul Gosling column The miners’ strike of 1984 was one of those politically defining moments – except it was not a moment. It was a year of hard graft for striking miners, their wives and families. It was also a time when those families and the thousands of people who actively supported
The Paul Gosling column Inflated house prices lie at the heart of the global banking crisis. Despite newspaper headlines talking glibly of bank debts caused by foolhardy ‘sub-prime lending’, the truth is more complex and disturbing according to a lively debate amongst community development activists in the United States. We might assume from the
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The Paul Gosling Column The Government has set itself stiff targets for building new homes and reducing carbon emissions. It has pledged to build three million new homes by 2020, while reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 60% – and possibly 80% – by 2050. Potentially the targets are in serious conflict – which
Letter from Ireland by Paul Gosling A trickle threatens to become a flood. Shire Pharmaceuticals made news in April as the first FTSE 100 company to move its tax residency to Dublin – jumping out of Britain’s 28% corporation tax net, into Ireland’s more hospitable 12.5% tax rate. Shire was persuaded not
Accounting & Business June 2008 News Despatch FRC repeats warning of a Big Four collapse A collapse of a Big Four firm remains the biggest risk to the effective functioning of the audit market, the UK’s Financial Reporting Council has warned. As part of the ongoing implementation of recommendations from
Questions of cash: Beware fake emails that demand money By Paul Gosling Saturday, 14 June 2008 Q. Ever since typing my name into Google out of idle curiosity, I have been receiving emails from it demanding money or it will stop my ads. I do not have any ads, but its emails are
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