A young woman from Nuneham Courtney has been sentenced after lying to a local council, defrauding it out of more than £4,000.

Unpaid council tax, fraud by a builder, and misappropriation of school funds by a teacher were all rumbled by council teams in Carmarthenshire, a meeting heard.

Fraud totalling about £2.7m has been uncovered by a council, with transgressions in tax, housing tenancy and right-to-buy among the offending. Officers at Stoke-on-Trent City Council found there were ...

Economists have argued for years that council tax in the UK was rushed in and badly thought out. After the poll tax fiasco of the early 1990s, a substitute was urgent. The answer was council tax, but ...

Bristol City Council’s scam-busters stopped £4million of corruption last year. The counter-fraud and investigations team unearthed a wide range of attempted cons by a variety of people, including ...

The City’s Common Council is set to vote Tuesday on a memorializing resolution opposing President Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill ...

About 18,000 council tax payers who pay by direct debit have been charged a day early by mistake. Slough Borough Council said ...