| The Audit Commission has issued the results of its 2004 comprehensive performance assessment of English local authorities. The table below shows how councils in the South of England fared and compares their performance with last year's assessment. | COUNCIL PERFORMANCE - SOUTH | | | 2003 | 2004 | | Bath & N E Somerset | good | good | | Bournemouth | fair | fair | | Bracknell Forest | good | good | | Brighton & Hove | fair | good | | Bristol | fair | fair | | Buckinghamshire | good | good | | Cornwall | excellent | excellent | | Devon | good | good | | Dorset | excellent | excellent | | East Sussex | good | good | | Gloucestershire | good | good | | Hampshire | excellent | excellent | | Isle of Wight | fair | fair | | Isles of Scilly | fair | weak | | Kent | excellent | excellent | | Medway | good | good | | Milton Keynes | fair | fair | | North Somerset | fair | fair | | Oxfordshire | fair | fair | | Plymouth | poor | weak | | Poole | good | good | | Portsmouth | good | good | | Reading | good | good | | Slough | fair | good | | Somerset | fair | good | | South Gloucestershire | good | good | | Southampton | good | good | | Surrey | good | good | | Swindon | poor | weak | | Torbay | weak | fair | | West Berkshire | fair | good | | West Sussex | excellent | excellent | | Wiltshire | fair | good | | Windsor & Maidenhead | good | good | | Wokingham | good | good | | Source: Audit Commission |
|  | SEE ALSO: 

RELATED BBC LINKS: 
RELATED INTERNET LINKS: The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites 

|