Arun, Chichester and Horsham District Councils are exploring plans to share services in a bid to save £2 million a year and improve services.

850,000 new jobs could be available in the north of England because of the Northern Powerhouse devolution programme, review says.

West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s CityConnect team has developed a new safe and segregated nine mile cycle superhighway.

Official figures have shown that councils are planning to use £1.9 billion of cash reserves in order to fund services for the next financial year.

The Transport Select Committee (TSC) has called on the government to scrap its plans to convert more hard shoulders into permanent driving lanes.

Stockport Council has signed a deal with Nutanix to reduce its data centre footprint and move its information to an enterprise cloud solution.

Norwich City Council and Breckland Council have both rejected the proposed East Anglia devolution deal, leaving its future uncertain.

A new report has called on the government to set up a health and social care department to support greater integration.

The National Audit Office (NAO) has warned that the High Speed 2 (HS2) project is facing considerable cost and timing pressures, suggesting that the current timetable is ’unrealistic’.

Norfolk County Council has given the go ahead to have a joint devolution plan with its neighbour Suffolk County Council.

Cornwall Council has called on the government to assure it that it will replace the funding it received from the EU with further investment.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said the government has a ‘fundamental responsibility to bring our country together’, following Britain’s narrow majority vote to leave the EU.

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