Jenny Laing, the leader of Aberdeen City Council, has opened the London Stock Exchange to celebrate the its successful £370 million bond issue.
Aberdeen was the first council in Scotland to launch an index linked bond in November, supporting a £1 billion transformational capital and infrastructure programme. The programme will support major projects such as the new Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre and the City Centre Masterplan.

Bath could become the first UK city to impose a tourist tax on overnight visitors to help offset the £37 million of cuts it is facing over the next five years.

An environmental blog has reported that councils shoulder an unfair share of the responsibility and cost for waste and recycling.
Inside Track, a blog hosted by the the independent think tank Green Alliance, has argued that local authorities should not receive the blame for the confusion currently surrounding recycling in the UK, and instead argues that companies should do more to improve packaging on their products.

A new report is urging for the government to set minimum quotes for the number of women in Parliament and local government.

A new agreement has been released offering an all-in-one solution for printer/copier, managed print and records information management needs.
Launched by the Crown Commercial Service (CCS), YPO and Eastern Shires Purchasing Organisation (ESPO), the new agreement provides a wide range of services from buying multifunctional devices to managing print strategies, storage and scanning services to support digitisation.

The City of York Council has successfully bid for just over £2.76 million worth of funding that will help secure 65 new affordable homes.
The 65 homes will be a mix of properties bought on the open market and of new-build homes.
The £2,762,500 comes from the Shared Ownership and Affordable Homes Programme 2016-21 and assumes an average share of 50 per cent purchased by the customer with the balance of 25 per cent funding from the council and 25 per cent from this Homes and Communities’ Agency’s (HCA) grant.

Liberty has launched a crowd-funded legal challenge to the UK government's ‘assault on our freedom’ through the so-called ‘snoopers' charter’.

UK households threw away £13 billion worth of food that could have been eaten in 2015, a new Wrap report finds.

First Minister Nicole Sturgeon has announced an extra £107 million is being invested into health and social care partnerships.

Education Secretary Justine Greening has announced a £50 million grant scheme to provide thousands of new childcare places.
In a bid to deliver the government’s landmark 30 hours free childcare offer, a list of successful projects will benefit from the grants, creating almost 9,000 free places for eligible three- and four-year-olds. When it is rolled out next September, it is expected to save parents around £5,000 per year.