Oxfordshire communities wanting to reduce the speed of their roads to 20mph will find it easier after funding was agreed to accelerate the process.

The overwhelming majority of unpaid carers believe that ‘successive governments have ignored the needs of unpaid carers for a long time’.

New analysis of national data has found that the proportion of smokers living in poverty is highest in the north and Midlands.

Wales’ new Infrastructure Investment Strategy, underpinned by £8.1 billion over the next three years, seeks to move public services towards zero carbon.

Street lights and bus shelters will host more mobile network equipment to boost mobile coverage as part of a new scheme to install more 4G and 5G kit.

A FOI survey carried out by the Association of Play Industries has revealed that some UK regions have almost five times the free-to-access play provision of others.

A new report by the Onward think tank has claimed that ministers’ efforts to relocate large numbers of civil servants out of London are going backwards.
Research has found that new posts in the capital have grown at twice the rate of other regions since a review of government buildings announced in 2018, meaning that the senior civil service remains ’particularly London-centric’.

Thousands of social housing tenants will have their energy bills cut and homes made warmer as the government improves energy efficiency.

Councils have warned that they will have to scale back road maintenance as local authorities face a £500 million funding reduction.