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Birmingham council has to do accounts by hand after £38m software bungle
A Labour-run council is having to complete its accounts by hand after the botched implementation of a £38 million accounting system. Birmingham city council has been forced to carry out more than 40,000 hours of manual bookkeeping to maintain day-to-day …