Local residents will be protected from being pushed out of their communities by excessive short-term lets due to changes in planning rules.

Hammersmith and Fulham Council has created a new alliance intended to clean dirty air and improve residents' health.
The 'Better Air, Better Health' partnership brings together health and air pollution experts from H&F Council, Imperial College London’s Environmental Research Group (ERG) and Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
The partnership aims to help cut local air pollution, reduce resident exposure and reduce the impact of associated health risks. Hammersmith and Fulham has an objective to create a cleaner and safer borough.

Labour has won by-elections in Wellingborough and Kingswood - overturning large Conservative majorities in both places.
Wellingborough was won by Gen Kitchener, who over turned a Conservative majority of 18,540 in 2019 by winning with a majority of 6,436.
Conservatives had previously held the seat since 2005. The swing was 28.5 per cent from Conservatives to Labour - the second biggest swing from Conservative to Labour at a by-election since World War Two.

Energy efficient housing development will provide 50 new homes in Cardiff for an affordable social rent.

More than a quarter of a million workplace training places in the UK for benefit claimants have been filled with the Sector-based Work Academy Programmes.