FOI Friday: Roadworks hell, hidden art, naughty nurses and bedblocking patients

Plagues of roadworks < Get Surrey Dismay has been expressed over a ‘plague’ of roadworks on a stretch between Bramley and Guildford in the past three years. Information obtained under the Freedom of Information Act revealed that more than 860 individual projects were carried out on the A281 from 2012 to 2014 – an average

FOI Friday: 10 things we’ve learnt this week thanks to the Freedom of Information Act

The councils which tell us to recycle – but don’t do it themselves The Northern Echo came up with a great story thanks to FOI – asking councils how much they spent on promoting recycling. It also asked what recycling they carry out – and remarkably few composted food, recycled green waste or even made