61.   Half the new tax would be on the carbon content of fossil fuel and half on the energy content.

62.   A new tax could be levied on UK industry to pay for cleaning up contaminated land, according to proposals currently being considered by the Department of the Environment.

63.   A leaked report has shown that house valuations made in the region in preparation for the new council tax are among the most inaccurate in the country.

64.   The Abbey National Building Society is urging the Government to consider a new tax credit scheme to try to revive the housing market.

65.   Cheltenham Borough Council is shedding thirteen jobs from its treasury department because there is less work with the new council tax than with the poll tax.

66.   RESIDENTS are paying the new council tax quicker in Warrington than they paid poll tax.

67.   WORK by three local authorities in Cleveland is assisting the introduction of the new council tax throughout the UK.

68.   ESTATE agents valuing every house in Britain for the new council tax have had many of their estimates thrown out by the Inland Revenue.

69.   Everybody in the region would have to pay a new tax towards a regional assembly based on Tyneside and dominated by Labour politicians.

70.   A party official later served warning that Labour would reverse the decision to create a new tax band.