Latest data released by the Cabinet Office shows the size of the government estate has dropped by almost a third over the past 10 years.

Leeds City Council’s free local healthy living service has launched a campaign to reduce coronary heart disease and stroke.

The West Midlands Combined Authority has become the first region in the UK to introduce its own localised definition of affordable housing.
The new definition, which has been approved by the authority’s Housing and Land Board, is based on local people paying no more than 35 per cent of their salary on mortgages or rent.

The Resolution Foundation says that sustained employment does not eliminate in-work poverty for too many households.

Edinburgh households are more climate aware and generate less waste per resident than those of any other major Scottish city.

Boris Johnson will announce new plans for the ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK.

The BBC has revealed that full rollout of universal credit is being delayed again, to 2024, adding £500 million to its overall cost.
The government's flagship welfare reform was meant to be fully live by April 2017, but the new delay will push it back to September 2024. Officials claim that not enough people are moving to the benefit as they are ‘scared’ to move to universal credit. Will Quince, the welfare delivery minister, said claimants would not lose money as a result of the change.

A new investigation has found that councils are sharing information about users of their websites with dozens of private companies.
More than 400 local authorities allowed at least one third-party company to track individuals who visit their sites, including sensitive sections of their sites, such as when they seek help with a benefit claim, or with a disability or alcoholism.
Critics have argued that council websites serve a public purpose and should not let outside firms monitor their users’ activity, especially given the sensitive nature of some visits.

The government must go further and faster with plans to tackle air pollution by seizing a unique opportunity to clean up the country’s toxic air.