HM Passport Office, has launched a national campaign to tackle the issue and is encouraging students and any young person who uses a passport for age verification to use alternative identification methods.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has set out plans for a £50 million ‘move-on’ housing fund to help homeless people progress from hostels and refuges to long-term accommodation.

Surrey County Council has unveiled plans to build 600 homes for older and disabled people within the next decade, in a bid to save £3 million annually.

Oxford councillors have voted to ban buses and taxis from Queen Street for a total of six months due to concerns for the safety of pedestrians.

A Hight Court ruling has ruled that North Yorkshire County Council has acted lawfully when approving a planning application by Third Energy to allow fracking the village of Kirby Misperton.

The Public Accounts Committee has said the government's claim that its Troubled Families project had ‘turned around’ the lives of 99 per cent of England's most troubled families is a misleading statement.

Labour-run North Lanarkshire has warned it faced cuts of nearly £35 million, following the Scottish budget.

Highland Council has published a proposal to accommodate families of Syrian refugees in Kinlochleven in Lochaber.

The Department of Health (DH) has awarded local authorities with a share of a £25 million housing and technology fund for people with learning disabilities.

133 jobs are at risk at Salford City Council, as the authority prepares to make £15.8 million in savings in 2017/18.

Official statistics from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) has shown that the rate of household recycling has fallen to 44.3 per cent from 44.9 per cent in 2015.

Doncaster City Council has been granted permission to issue an eviction to homeless protesters living in a ‘tent city’ in the region.

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