local government Archive

  • Open late on Sunday? (picture J Taylor / geograph.org.uk)

    Opening for the Olympics

    The government has trailed in the news the idea that the restrictions on Sunday opening for large shops should be relaxed for an eight week period over the summer at the time of the Olympics.  (Read about it here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2116909/London-2012-Olympics-Shop-opening-laws-Sundays-eased-The-Games.html)  It intends to propose it...

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  • Federalism as relevant as ever

    Federalism as relevant as ever

    By Terry Bishop Federal Union was founded over 60 years ago to foster debate on the issues concerned with federalism. Today these issues are as relevant as ever, as the United Kingdom considers both the relationship of Westminster to Brussels and the questions raised by...

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  • Sir Anthony Meyer

    Federalism in the UK

    By Sir Anthony Meyer For the past year Federal Union has been the British member of the UEF, and its aims are, as they always have been, those of the UEF, that is to say the promotion of a European Union closely integrated on federal...

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