内容摘要：Ms Cutler added: "The next few weeks are a particularly lovely time with new plants coming into flower on a daily basis."

Ms Cutler added: "The next few weeks are a particularly lovely time with new plants coming into flower on a daily basis."

"Where we have agreed, it is only for councils with amongst the lowest levels of council tax, and where we expect, even after these increases, residents will still be paying less than the average compared with similar councils."Birmingham City Council declared itself effectively bankrupt in October 2023 as it struggled to deal with equal pay claims originally estimated to total £750m.

Government-appointed commissioners were brought in and residents in the city have already seen cuts to services since then with a council tax rise of 10% for the 2024-25 financial year.Mr Cotton said talks with the current government have been constructive."Following extensive talks, we've agreed that Birmingham has made sufficient progress over the last 12 months to reduce the planned council tax increase," he said.

A council has outlined plans to close four adult social care day centres to save £5.3m over the next two years.Birmingham City Council

over reducing its nine centres, which supports people with disabilities and the elderly, to five.

Councillor Rob Pocock, cabinet member for health and social care, said services would be "consolidated" and there would be no job losses."I intend to be a moderate and constructive voice within Reform, helping to shape a party that truly represents the interests of ordinary people," he added.

The councillor was elected to Cheshire East Council in May 2023."The people of Alsager and Cheshire East elected me to serve them, not a political party, and I will continue to put their interests first," Kain said.

Fletcher, who was the Lib Dem leader of the former Congleton Borough Council, from 2001 to 2002, said: "I joined the Liberal party in 1962 and I'm not going anywhere."To me this country desperately needs Liberal Democrat values at this time."