Polling station

Today, polling stations opened at 7am and will close at 10pm tonight, with millions of voters across 22 county and unitary areas voting to elect more than 1,500 councillors.

House on rural island

Around 65,000 Scottish homes and businesses are set to receive access to fast, reliable broadband, even in more isolated areas of the UK.

Fly tipping in the countryside

The government has announced that they will crackdown waste criminals, fly-tippers, and ‘cowboy waste operators’.

Digital AI map

The government is ready to unlock billions of pounds of AI investment and is preparing to announce the first hosts of flagship AI Growth Zones this summer.

Four local authorities across Wales are taking part in automatic voter registration pilots.

The government has announced plans to bring the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the arm’s-length body (ALB) responsible for valuing properties

Block of flats

London Councils has published a new report on how leasehold properties could be made more energy efficient, which also acknowledges the financial and legal difficulties that are making it difficult for leaseholders and council tenants to receive help. 

Football stadium

London’s sporting events boosted economy by £230 million last year, according to recent data revealed by the mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

Child holding cardboard house

London Councils has warned that the capital’s worsening homelessness crisis presents the “single biggest risk” to London boroughs’ finances and is pushing councils towards bankruptcy.

A major carbon capture and storage network is ready to begin construction in North Wales and the North West of England.

Government departments and their arms-length bodies have until the end of May to apply for an exemption from the requirement to switch to a zero em

The government has announced plans to bring forward £300 million of funding for Great British Energy.

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