Training its sights on costs - The Strategic Rail Authority is picking up the pieces of the botched privatisation of British Rail. But it is facing the challenge of soaring costs and a shrinking budget

Keep taking the supplements? - An unlikely alliance of local authorities and house builders is resisting Gordon Brown's Pre-Budget Report proposals to introduce a tax on land development

Smulian, Mark, (2006)

Local boy does good - The next head of the Local Government Association is going to be Sir Sandy Bruce-Lockhart, a Conservative who will shake up the central-local relationship

Smulian, Mark, (2004)

The tourist trap - The multibillion-pound British tourism industry is reeling from a succession of hard knocks. The government has come to the rescue -- But with 34 public bodies involved, there is a serious problem of overkill

Smulian, Mark, (2003)