JenniferScott published Council leaders worry devolution deal will be off as bill changes...

Nottinghamshire is at risk of becoming an "economic backwater" after amendments to the devolution bill got the green light in the House of Commons - according to local council leaders. Both the leader of the county council, Alan Rhodes, and the city's leader Jon Collins, are worried the deal to bring more powers to the area through a combined authority with Derbyshire could be thwarted thanks to changes in the parliamentary bill. The new rules will allow district councils to break...