Rural areas risk becoming ‘second-class’ citizens in the digital revolution as urban dwellers better benefit from next-generation broadband.
Sir Tony Redmond is to lead an independent review into the effectiveness of the audit and financial reporting of local authorities.
The government should respond to environmental breakdown and help younger and future generations realise a more sustainable world.
Councils are acting as ‘recruiting sergeants’ for drug dealers by sending children to areas where they will be exploited.
A new report warns that politicians have ‘consistently overstated’ the extent of savings achieved through outsourcing services.
The government’s commitment to tackling hatred in all its forms has been boosted with £100,000 pledged to tackle online antisemitism.
The Liberal Democrats have pledged to cancel Brexit if they come to power at the next general election.
Northern mayors and combined authorities will have greater control over setting local train fares, timetables, and budgets.
Bus journeys have plummeted by more than 300 million in just five years, falling to their lowest level in over a decade.
Nicky Morgan has revealed the locations that will benefit from a £95 million heritage boost for high streets in 69 towns across the country.
As the Summer of Parks concludes, Fields in Trust has crowned Stanley Park in Blackpool as the UK's Best Park 2019.
42 per cent of people in the UK believe that their local authority ‘throws most of the recycling in with general waste’.
A new report has called for 30,000 additional homes for later living every year to boost mental and physical health of older people.
High streets face a bleak future as policymakers are failing to identify a clear economic focus to city centre regeneration strategies.
80 per cent of the public would put an end to the school children discounts offered by unhealthy fast food outlets near schools.