Taxpayers'Alliance | Topics | This is Lincolnshire

Accidents on unsafe paths cost council £100,000 a year in compensation claims

Friday, August 13, 2010

ALMOST £100,000 a year is paid out to people injured tripping over a pavement in Lincolnshire. Lincolnshire County Council has revealed it pays...

Read full story

Accidents on unsafe paths costs council Â£100,000 a year in compensation claims

Taxpayers vow to use new power to veto council tax rises if new plan goes ahead

Saturday, July 31, 2010

TAXPAYERS in Lincolnshire could soon get the right to veto inflation-busting council tax rises under plans put forward by the Government. And...

Read full story

Taxpayers vow to use new power to veto council tax rises if new plan goes ahead

'Pretty' roundabouts and councillors' expenses top list of cash-saving ideas

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

COUNCILLORS' expenses, postal charges and well-maintained roundabouts are wasting taxpayers' cash in Lincolnshire, it has been claimed. County...

Read full story

Pretty roundabouts and councillors' expenses top list of cash-saving ideas

One in five people of working age in Lincoln are living on benefits

Thursday, June 24, 2010

ONE fifth of all people of working age in Lincoln are living on benefits, according to latest figures. The 20.9 per cent figure for city people living...

Read full story

One in five people of working age in Lincoln are living on benefits

£100k salaries attacked

Friday, April 02, 2010

Officials have defended the salary of a Lincolnshire council boss who earns almost as much as the Prime Minister. Tony McArdle, chief executive of...

Read full story

Pensions black hole 'ticking time-bomb'

Saturday, March 06, 2010

The black hole in council pensions in Lincolnshire has massively expanded in the last 12 months, new figures show. The pensions deficit at councils...

Read full story