Sentence examples for council cutting from inspiring English sources

Each spring I think about the council cutting down all the elm trees on Elm Tree Avenue.

"Libraries are a lifeline to many and as the area becomes increasingly gentrified and some people become marginalised, they are one of the few venues that cut across social strata and bring benefit to everyone," said a reader in Lambeth, a council cutting back on library services.

If Nicky Clarke got a job with the council cutting hair, and a public school employed Charlie George to give elocution lessons, you'd have some idea of the novel cultural influences at work on Hugh Grant's performance in this version of Nick Hornby's 1998 bestseller, written and directed by Chris and Paul Weitz, creators of the American Pies.

The school budget was rejected again in 2009, with the Council cutting $1 million from the $94.8 million originally proposed.

Councils are slashing as much as 58% from their planning budgets between 2012 and 2014, according to Guardian research, with some of the biggest city councils cutting the most.

The MPs warned that without a cap, cuts in local government finance could lead to "cost shunting", with people forced to pay extra for their requirements or councils cutting other services.

The spectre of squeezed councils cutting cultural budgets is now regarded as posing a serious danger to the arts in England — one recently highlighted by Danny Boyle, director of the 2012 Olympics opening ceremony, who has recently written to David Cameron and George Osborne urging a "national-led" solution to the problem.

"The biggest issue we see across the country is local councils cutting their cultural support," Mr Spedding said.

Sure, he talked of Tory councils cutting and freezing council tax; there was an attack on Labour local authorities for "wasting" money and a plea not to let them do locally what he said they had done to the whole country before 2010.

Go Shared Services will provide finance, procurement, HR and payroll services to Cotswold district council, Cheltenham borough council, Forest of Dean district council and West Oxfordshire district council while cutting £675,000 per year off the cost of back office functions.

When David Cameron demanded to know why his own Oxfordshire council was cutting frontline services, the Conservative leader of the council wrote back to him to explain the implications of his government's cuts on the council's ability to provide them.