News analysis: What a performance - The inclusion of year on year comparisons in the latest set of Audit Commission performance indicators leaves councils with no room to hide

Housing: Unsafe as houses - Cuts in housing investment ushered in by the Budget have left housing officers wondering how repair bills and waiting lists are going? to be tackled.

Wild, Damian, (1996)

Local government: Three for sorrow - It could have been worse was councils' verdict of this year's local government settlement, but on the back of two other lean years council services are heading for trouble.

Wild, Damian, (1996)

Hidden benefits - Apart from Europe there is one other issue that looks set to dominate the pre-election agenda - public sector fraud. Last week the government got the debate going with a bill aimed at tackling benefit fraud. Damian Wild asked some of the leading players !n this area whether the bill goes far enough

Wild, Damian, (1996)