Oxford is moving closer to the introduction of Britain’s first Zero Emission Zone, after Oxford City Council supported the introduction of a Pilot.

The government is investing £95 million in two new offshore wind ports in the Humber region and Teesside.
Able Marine Energy Park, on the South Bank of the River Humber, will receive up to £75 million government investment, and Teesworks Offshore Manufacturing Centre, on the River Tees, will benefit from up to £20 million. Construction will begin later this year to upgrade the two ports with new infrastructure - helping to revitalise these historic industrial heartlands.

The ban on commercial evictions has been extended to 30 June and bailiff enforced eviction ban extended to 31 May to protect residential tenants.

Keir Starmer is launching Labour’s national election campaign declaring that ‘a vote for Labour is a vote to support our nurses’.
Claiming that a vote for Labour in this year’s national elections is a vote ‘to support our nurses, to rebuild social care and to reward our key workers’, Starmer will Arn against voting for a Conservative Party that is cutting nurses’ pay, cutting spending on the NHS and raising taxes on families.

ADEPT has said that waste services across the country are continuing to feel the impacts of coronavirus.

Sadiq Khan has announced that construction work will begin on four major new cycling infrastructure projects across the capital this month.

The National Audit Office has warned that some local councils in England are at risk of financial failure amid a £605 million funding shortfall.

Vaughan Gething has announced an extra £50 million of government funding to allow health boards to extend contact tracing over the summer.

Following news that the government has controversially axed its Industrial Strategy Council, Labour has pledged to be the home of Industrial Strategy.