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2+ hour, 31+ min ago   (60+ words) MCA Insight ‘Hotel police’ to enforce Burnham’s tourist tax Tax officers will be able to demand access to hotels, force hospitality bosses to hand over documents and issue financial penalties under government proposals to impose the new overnight visitor levy,…...

7+ hour, 45+ min ago   (339+ words) Durham County Council’s cabinet is set to discuss whether to buy back a long-derelict Ferryhill care home, five years after the building was sold off. An option to buy back Feryemount House in Ferryhill is due to be considered by…...

8+ hour, 18+ min ago   (522+ words) With almost 140,000 international visitor days recorded in Ōpōtiki over the past year, the district could benefit from the National Party’s visitor levy policy. However, Mayor David Moore said the increase of the levy share the party planned to give the…...

13+ hour, 45+ min ago   (146+ words) Plaid Cymru misunderstands that devolution places responsibility for many aspects of Welsh daily life on its own elected representatives, including 11 essential areas, e.g. education, health, and transport. Most decisions and funding in Westminster are directed at England, but with London controlling…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago   (264+ words) Paul Bristow promises not to use new tourism tax powers Paul Bristow, the Conservative Mayor of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority, has chosen not to implement the new tourism tax powers set to take effect in 2028. These powers were announced…...

8+ hour, 15+ min ago   (574+ words) The Conservative administration at Northumberland County Council has put itself on a collision course with the North East Mayor over plans to introduce a tourist tax across the region. Kim McGuinness is among the regional mayors who will be allowed…...

17+ hour, 57+ min ago   (735+ words) Key locations in Liverpool city centre haven't been thoroughly washed “for more than a decade”, the leader of the council has conceded. Residents, visitors and councillors have all raised the issue of the state of the heart of Liverpool over…...

19+ hour, 20+ min ago   (364+ words) A former councillor, described as having made an "enormous contribution to public life", has been nominated to receive one of the local authority's highest civic honours. Sunderland City Council's cabinet recommended Harry Trueman be appointed an Honorary Alderman of the…...

2+ day, 6+ hour ago   (993+ words) Friday, 11 September 2026 12:34 By Paul Drury-Bradey, local democracy reporter Hull and East Yorkshire Mayor Luke Campbell has confirmed he will not introduce a new tourist tax in the region, prioritizing the needs of local hospitality and leisure businesses currently facing financial…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1013+ words) Migrant hotels will be exempt from Andy Burnham's tourist tax on hospitality after the Prime Minister was accused of raiding struggling Brits with an unlimited 'overnight visitor levy'. Earlier this week, the Prime Minister gave his favoured regional mayors the…...