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Councils warn of acute pressures despite funding boost next year

Councils in urban and rural areas have raised concerns about ongoing pressures on services following changes to the draft settlement for 2025-26.

The Independent UK

‘Profiteering off children’: care firms in England accused of squeezing cash from councils

A local authority leader claims private equity groups are exploiting vulnerable youngsters in care homes in the pursuit of profit

The Guardian - UK

Afternoon Update: Swiftmania hits Melbourne; 78-year-old robotax victim ‘distressed’; and New York sues ‘addictive’ social platforms

ATO faces scrutiny for pressuring people to repay old debts in a campaign drawing parallels with Centrelink’s robodebt scandal

The Guardian - AU

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‘They ask only not to be forgotten’: Barry Lewis’s heartbreaking portraits of the Soviet Union’s gulag survivors

Taken in 1991, during the glasnost era, these extraordinary photographs are a powerful reminder of one of the darkest periods in Soviet history

The Guardian - UK

County councils ‘running out of road’ to stop insolvency due to £4bn funding gap

Children’s social care accounted for around half of the expected overspend by England’s largest local authorities.

The Independent UK

A bullet for the bridegroom: Barry Lewis’s best photograph

‘The groom at this wedding in Albania had just been given a “trousseau bullet” from the bride’s father – to be used in the event of her desertion or infidelity’

The Guardian - UK

County council approves measures to reduce £46 million budget gap

Derbyshire County Council’s leader said it was ‘far from’ bankrupt but that the measures were necessary.

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County council could stop non-essential spending due to £46m budget black hole

Derbyshire County Council has already used £29 million of reserves to balance its books in the current financial year.

The Independent UK

Millie Bright set to be made Honorary Freewoman of home county

Bright captained the England team as they reached the Women’s World Cup Final last month.

The Independent UK

America’s Anglophiles gear up for coronation day: ‘I have a corgi dress’

It’s quiche, scones and a 4am start for the US’s British superfans, even as some remain unsure of what Charles III is about

The Guardian - US

16 tributes, death and funeral notices from across Nottinghamshire

Our thoughts are with those who have lost a loved ones

Nottingham Post

'Warmth, excess, fun and surreal humour': Amazing photos sum up exactly what Blackpool was like in the 80s

Photographer Barry Lewis captured the Golden Mile in all its glory

Manchester Evening News

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