Alliance's saving proposals 'wacky'

Suggestions that local authorities could save money by using sheep and cattle to cut grass "trivialised" the damage being done to services by the Government's austerity drive, unions representing over a million council workers have said.

The TaxPayers' Alliance published 201 ways it believed local authorities could save money and reduce bureaucracy, ranging from freezing recruitment, ending automatic pay rises for staff and rewarding council tenants for carrying out their own repairs.
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