Labour has sought confirmation that Boris Johnson could not force through a No Deal Brexit in the middle of a general election campaign.

Business and organisations from across Oxford are working with the city council on an initiative to bring empty units back into use more quickly.
Representatives of more than 30 local business and organisations have been invited by Oxford City Council to put forward ideas for short term, ‘meanwhile use’ of empty units following a council-run event on the issue. The council has also written to a number of landlords and agents with city centre vacant units to ask if they’d consider ‘meanwhile use’ while work continues to get them let longer term.

Plans for up to 200 homes to help former rough sleepers and victims of domestic abuse in London have been announced.

A one-year spending review to give government departments ‘financial certainty’ as they prepare for Brexit will be brought forward.

Nicola Sturgeon has opened a new £6m project which uses cutting-edge renewables technology to harness energy from waste water.

Southampton City Council has begun work to transform the Millbrook Roundabout with a new Living Wall made up of green planting.

The Labour Party has raised concerns that local government will not have a seat on the government’s EU Exit Operations Committee.
The claim comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson chose 14 out of 23 cabinet ministers to attend the EU Exit Operations Committee. New Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, Robert Jenrick, will not be present, which Labour says is shutting local government out from crucial Brexit preparations.

A government-commissioned report has welcomed ambitious proposals to create a new urban National Park in the West Midlands region.

Action on Sugar and Action on Salt are calling on the government to introduce a calorie levy.