Leaders from Rutland CC and seven district councils across Leicestershire claim "credible alternatives" to a large-scale unitary council have not been

Cllr Tammy Palmer (Lib Dem, Duryard and St James) said the street is home to a large number of vulnerable people, as well as being close to schools, hostels, several churches and a mosque. Sidwell Street, she said, is in the top 10 per cent of the most deprived areas in the country.

The government has set a "very high bar" for delaying local elections, local government minister Jim McMahon told MPs this week. An urgent question was

A high-rise development in the centre of Exeter which was to have featured dozens of affordable homes aimed at key workers will now include none at all. Developers working on the ‘ghost town’ boarded-up Harlequins shopping centre won’t have to provide the affordable homes they pledged when planning permission was granted three years ago.

We look back through the Tele's archives to 1950 and news of a scramble for meeting places ahead of that year's General Election.

BBC chiefs must launch an urgent probe after promoting Jimmy Mizen’s murderer on the airwaves, MPs demanded today. Downing Street said Sir Keir Starmer was “deeply concerned” by

Staff sickness, low recruitment and bin lorries breaking down were among the problems plaguing a new waste collection contract, a probe has found.

Work to bring Zachary Merton Hospital up to scratch will cost £8m, councillors have been told. The hospital, in Rustington, closed temporarily in November 2023, after water leaks were found, along with damaged ceilings and issues with the heating system.

Wealden councillors have turned down plans to convert a disused barn near Hadlow Down into a family home. On Thursday (January 16), Wealden District Council’s Planning Committee North considered proposals to convert a disused agricultural building at Passalls Farm in Wilderness Lane into a six-bedroom family home.

The couple, aged 73 and 68 respectively, are Ringlestone residents of 26 years standing, and both have had double knee replacement surgery. They use the bus “three or four times a week” to go shopping in the town centre or to visit their doctor’s surgery in Brewer Street, Maidstone.

Stratford District Council is set to double council tax on unoccupied second homes after being told it must foot the bill for not doing so earlier.

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