The funding will go towards helping local authorities to install chargepoints, which can be built into existing structures like lamp-posts.

New analysis has revealed that four fifths of constituency areas suffer from patchy 4G mobile coverage.

The UK has become one of the first countries in Europe where people will be able to receive flood alerts via the Google Public Alerts map.
It means that flood warnings, issued by the Environment Agency, will now appear on Google Search and the Google Public Alerts map with live alerts becoming visible on personal devices in a matter of seconds once they have been issued.

Labour has sought confirmation that Boris Johnson could not force through a No Deal Brexit in the middle of a general election campaign.

Business and organisations from across Oxford are working with the city council on an initiative to bring empty units back into use more quickly.
Representatives of more than 30 local business and organisations have been invited by Oxford City Council to put forward ideas for short term, ‘meanwhile use’ of empty units following a council-run event on the issue. The council has also written to a number of landlords and agents with city centre vacant units to ask if they’d consider ‘meanwhile use’ while work continues to get them let longer term.

Plans for up to 200 homes to help former rough sleepers and victims of domestic abuse in London have been announced.

A one-year spending review to give government departments ‘financial certainty’ as they prepare for Brexit will be brought forward.

Nicola Sturgeon has opened a new £6m project which uses cutting-edge renewables technology to harness energy from waste water.

Southampton City Council has begun work to transform the Millbrook Roundabout with a new Living Wall made up of green planting.