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Heather Smith, council leader, said that she had written to Communities Secretary Sajid Javid before Christmas that the authority was ‘about to fall over the edge of the cliff’ as a result of ‘a perfect storm’ of uncontrollable increases in demand for services and significant reductions in funding from central government.
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