A plan which sets out Nottingham City Council’s priorities and ambitions for the start of a new decade has been published.

The Lib Dems have outlined plans for a £5 billion fund to improve flood defences across the UK, to be paid for through government borrowing.

A new report has stressed that the government must require planning policies to restrict new hot food takeaways near schools.

Boris Johnson is to chair a meeting of the government's emergency Cobra committee in response to floods in northern England.

The Alzheimer’s Society has said that the cost of social care for people with dementia will nearly treble over the next two decades.

The Mayor of London has announced that the London Living Wage rate is to increase to £10.75 per hour.

Both the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats have pledged extra money to support the parents of young children.
As part of their election pledges, Labour has vowed to spend £1 billion on opening 1,000 new early years centres in England, with the aim of getting parents back to work and helping children achieve, while the Liberal Democrats are promising working families subsidised care for children from the age of nine months.

The Campaign for Better Transport has called on the next government to get more people onto the bus.

Approximately 1.5 million older people in England have an unmet need for social care, according to estimates from Age UK.

Nottingham City Council has announced that no schools in the city will close to become polling stations at December’s General Election.