Treorchy High Street has been crowned the UK’s best in this year’s Great British High Street Awards.

The UK is making significant steps in reducing its food waste, with total food waste levels falling by 480,000 tonnes between 2015 and 2018.
However, the government’s waste advisory body has warned that individual households should still be doing more to reduce the 4.5m tonnes of food waste. WRAP has found that households and businesses are now tackling the problem at an accelerated rate, with a greater rate of progress from 2015 to 2018 than over the preceding five years.

Gloucestershire County Council is set to agree investment of an initial £1 million Action Fund to help tackle climate change.

The NLGN has revealed that poor air quality is a ‘top concern’ for councils, but most feel unable to address it.

It is vital that the government take urgent steps to reform the design flaws within the Universal Credit system, says StepChange.

Cambridge City Council has officially launched a project to increase the area of the city under tree canopy cover over the next three years.
The project will see the local authority plant 2,000 new trees on council-owned land, distribute approximately 1,500 trees to residents through the council’s Free Trees for Babies scheme, as well as increase work with residents and businesses to plant 12,500 trees in gardens and on other privately-owned land.

The next phase of a pioneering scheme to turn hard-to-heat council houses in Nottingham into ultra-low energy homes has begun.

The North of Tyne Combined Authority has pledged £10 million in the region’s digital economy.

New briefing urges the government to take concerted action to address the unequal risk of mental ill health in the UK.