The leader of Plymouth City Council has urged fellow councillors to vote for the council's updated Plan for Libraries.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has launched the search for the first-ever London Borough of Culture, inviting 32 boroughs to bid for cultural funding.
Zero Waste Scotland has been asked to investigate design options and the associated costs and benefits of a Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland.
NICE and Public Health England are urging for ‘no vehicle idling’ zones to be enforced by local authorities.
Kingston Council has launched Kingston Recycling Rewards, a recycling rewards scheme which aims to reduce non-recyclable waste in the borough.
Leeds City Council and its partners have launched a new cycling plan for the city to improve cycling infrastructure and accessibility.
New Keep Britain Tidy research has found that the presence of large, brightly-coloured items of litter act as a ‘beacon’ for more litter.
The Department for Transport has unveiled a £6.1 billion programme of road improvements.
A new study has revealed that those who rent their homes for longer have more symptoms of depression and lower levels of well-being.
The CCC says the UK’s transition to a resilient, low-carbon economy is in danger of being derailed by a lack of government action on climate change.
Damaging cuts to UK social care will continue this year despite the government investing an extra £1 billion to halt the deterioration in services.
The Labour Party will table an amendment to the Queen's Speech calling for the one per cent public sector pay cap to end.
Council homes are being sold off almost three times faster than local authorities can replace them.
A number of senior politicians have called for the voting age to be lowered to 16 after the surge in the youth vote at the General Election.
Professor Arnold Dix has said that the current system to assess fire safety of high-rise buildings in the UK is ‘pointless’.