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Have your say on Copeland's budget

Published: 08/12/2015

Copeland Borough Council is calling on people to offer their views on the draft corporate plan and budget strategy.

Every year the council has to agree a balanced budget – this means income must balance against expenditure. 

Government grants, which used to make up a significant proportion of council income, have been reducing each year and Copeland Borough Council is looking at a new way of financing council services through commercialisation.

Flytippers force card recycling suspension

Published: 11/11/2015

Cardboard collection at all of Copeland’s recycling sites has been suspended after recycling banks were heavily contaminated with non-cardboard items, including meat and plastic.
Last month the council appealed for the public to be extra vigilant when visiting recycling centres after a large quantity of meat was found dumped in a cardboard recycling unit in Whitehaven. This month meat was found in another cardboard container at a different site.

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