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Belfast bin collections: Three quarters of missed pick-ups down to cars blocking streets

Anger at City Hall after Stormont department fails to turn up for special meeting on bin collections

Belfast Live

Sadiq Khan cleared of breaching City Hall code of conduct with Elizabeth line opening

Grant Shapps, who at the time was Transport Secretary, claimed the announcement was an “act of breathtaking political cynicism”

Evening Standard

Shaftesbury Square gaming arcade to expand despite council concerns

A councillor and civil servant have raised issues of amusement arcade "clustering"

Belfast Live

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Garbage: In Paris streets, heaps of it become protest symbol

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The Independent UK

Promenade needs rethink

Earlier this month, the Central Administrative Court gave a ruling that spells the end to the Chao Phraya River Promenade -- a lavishing 14-billion baht riverside landscape brainchild of Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha.

Bangkok Post

Mayor ‘must fix City Hall’s historically dysfunctional relationship with Met’

Exclusive: Met review will call for leadership shake-up and more scrutiny by Mayor

Evening Standard

LA strongly approves of Mayor Bass but is skeptical about fixing homelessness, poll shows

LOS ANGELES — On the eve of her 100th day in office, Mayor Karen Bass enjoys strong approval ratings among Angelenos — a reservoir of goodwill that will be crucial for the new mayor during uphill battles ahead.

Los Angeles Times

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Allison Arwady, City Hall’s calming voice on COVID, hopes to stay on under next mayor

Chicago’s public health commissioner and coronavirus point person says she doesn’t get recognized as much as she used to. But that’s OK with her, especially given the “scary mail at my house” she’d get.

Chicago Sun-Times

Sadiq Khan launches scheme to train 500 basketball coaches across London

The £1.1 million scheme will support the training of around 500 coaches over three years

Evening Standard

Govt asked to pay City Hall's B50bn skytrain debt

Representatives of skytrain employees have asked the government to pay the 50 billion baht debt the company accumulated in running the Green Line extension owned by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA).

Bangkok Post

With Lightfoot a lame duck, City Council looks to declare independence

Three committee chairs are working behind the scenes to reorganize and empower the City Council before a new mayor and Council are seated.

Chicago Sun-Times

Adams dodges on Cardi B flap in promotion of new probation commissioner

NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams refused to explain on Friday why NYPD Commissioner Keechant Sewell wasn’t looped into the controversial decision to invite Cardi B to a police event — and instead praised the NYPD’s former Chief of Training Juanita Holmes for making the move.

Tribune News Service

New Met Police helpline to put victims at ‘heart of everything we do’

One in three London crime victims was unsatisfied with the force’s level of service, a City Hall report said

Evening Standard

Susana Mendoza urges legislators to mandate full pension benefits for cops, firefighters who survive COVID-19

The Illinois comptroller choked up telling a House panel how her brother, a Chicago cop, was left disabled by COVID but denied full disability benefits.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Evening Standard

Several London boroughs ‘interested’ in zero emission zones

Deputy Mayor Shirley Rodrigues said there were no immediate plans for the zones, but that they formed part of the mayor’s longer term strategy for the capital

Evening Standard

Cost of living crisis: Nearly half of Londoners ‘struggling financially or just about managing’, survey finds

New poll for City Hall suggests many Londoners are in a worse situation than a year ago

Evening Standard

Opportunity was missed to ‘re-brand’ Prevent strategy, official says

Asked whether Prevent’s image could be improved through a ‘re-brand’, an official at City Hall said ‘that ship has sailed’

Bangkok Post

Unsafe dust levels in Bangkok

Much of Bangkok was covered with unsafe levels of PM2.5 dust, averaging 72.6 microgrammes per cubic metre (µg/m3), from 5am-7am on Tuesday, according to City Hall's daily air quality report.

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Chicago Tribune

In 4 years, Lori Lightfoot went from breakout political star to divisive leader of a city beset by pandemic, crime

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s failure to advance to a runoff election Tuesday represents an astonishing fall from power four years after she was ushered into City Hall with a promise of reform.

Bangkok Post

Port plan pitched to parties

City Hall will pitch to those political parties canvassing for votes the idea of integrating Bangkok Port in Klong Toey with the Laem Chabang deep-sea port in Chon Buri to lessen problems in the capital, including floods and air pollution.

Bristol Post

New Bristol train station to open this summer after months of delays

The station will take passengers every half an hour into Temple Meads

Bristol Post

What voters said about how Bristol’s new committee-run council should work

Bristol voted in a referendum last year to scrap the mayor and replace the role with several committees

Bangkok Post

BMA to inspect farms on prime plots

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) is planning to investigate landowners who are growing fruit and vegetables on their undeveloped land in the capital to avoid paying taxes on vacant plots.

Evening Standard

Concerns raised over use of police in London schools

Senior staff at City Hall said there was widespread support for police in schools - and that there was even a case to expand them into some primary schools

The Guardian - UK

‘We need to change, whether we like it or not’: London’s Ulez expansion

Clean air zone will cover whole capital from 29 August, pitting health against household finances

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