Ministers are proposing national standards for carbon reduction in new homes that are lower than those already implemented in London.

Parents and health professionals in Greater Manchester will be the first in the UK to use the new ‘Early Years’ app.

All children in England will be taught the skills for a lifetime of cycling, as its Bikeability training programme is significantly expanded.

A new generation of homeowners will be backed by the government thanks to a scheme cutting the cost of some new homes by a third.

Labour leadership contender Lisa Nandy has said that her party should invite council leaders to attend its shadow cabinet.
Seeking both to rebuild the party following the general election and give the party’s grassroots a significant boost, the Wigan MP said that a change in its policies on local government was likely and that the approach to local councillors would strengthen Labour’s work in regaining the scores of ‘red wall’ seats lost in December. Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour lost 59 constituencies in their worst defeat since 1935.

Charities are urging the government to reverse the deep funding cuts that have placed tremendous pressures on sexual health services.

The government is introducing new measures to help millions of people get their finances and debt under control.

New figures from the National House Building Council have revealed that 1.4 million new homes have been registered to be built in the past decade.
The homes statistics indicate that the number of new homes registered to be built per annum in the UK has risen by more than 80 per cent over the last decade, with the figures representing the first complete decade since the financial crash in 2007/08.

Coiuncils can now apply to become the UK’s first all-electric bus town, a move deemed the ‘gold-standard’ in environmentally friendly public transport.