Figures have shown the number of fines for litter and dog fouling has halved for East Hampshire District Council, after it replaced private enforcement officers with its own staff.

Local councils in Surrey could be handed powers to turn street lights back on, if they pay for the cost of doing so themselves.
In April, Get Surrey reported that Spelthorne would begin annually paying £21,000 for the borough's street lights to remain on throughout the night, after agreeing a financial deal with Surrey County Council.
This followed the county council’s decision in October 2016 to to switch off 44,000 street lights across the county between midnight and 5am, in order to make savings of £210,000 per year.

Homeless Link has launched a £4.5 million Social Investment Fund for organisations working to reduce homelessness.

Open data leaders are stalling, and even backsliding in their delivery of open data, the Open Data Barometer finds.

Plastic bottle deposit schemes could threaten the investment made by local authorities in infrastructure and collection services.

A new report has found that 98 per cent of councils have described their need for affordable houses as ‘severe’ or ‘moderate’.

An EEA survey has found that 20 beaches across Britain failed an assessment on the quality of their bathing water.

Over half of Northumberland's care homes have not signed contracts with the county council in a row over money, the BBC has reported.

Manchester City Council has released a statement expressed its horror following the deaths of twenty-two people, including children, at a suicide attack at Manchester Arena.

Four men including Liverpool City Council chief executive Ged Fitzgerald have been arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice and witness intimidation.