Northumberland County Council has welcomed £12 million funding to boost digital connectivity in rural communities.
The North of Tyne Combined Authority (NTCA) made a bid to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport earlier this year for the investment from its Local Full Fibre Networks Programme.

Ofsted has rated Tower Hamlets Council’s Children’s Service as ‘Good’ in its latest inspection.

Jeremy Corbyn has announced plans for a £3.5 billion investment in the Mersey Tidal Power Project.

The First Ministers of Wales and Scotland have called on new Prime Minister Boris Johnson to rule out a no deal Brexit.
Outlining four steps the new Prime Minister can immediately take to establish a more productive relationship between the governments of the UK, the two leaders have also called for the UK government to prepare for a second EU referendum.

A new poll has revealed that most adults in the UK care more about climate change in the long-term than Brexit.

The Liberal Democrats have been victorious in two wards of Gloucester Borough Council in the latest local polls.
The party, under the new leadership of Jo Swinson, defeated the Conservatives in a byelection in Barnwood ward, securing 676 votes on a turnout just below 30 per cent. The Lib Dems also narrowly won a seat from Labour in a contest in Podsmead ward caused by the resignation of a Labour councillor.

New Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced that the recruitment of 20,000 new police officers will begin within weeks.
Led by the Home Office, the move aims to start delivering more frontline officers from September, with full recruitment to be completed over the next three years. The government is expected to shortly set out plans for a new national policing board to support the recruitment drive.

The County Councils Network (CCN) has urged for ‘immediate clarity’ over resources for councils next year.
County leaders have published a new five-point plan for the new government, a Five-Point Plan for Local Government, which calls for an immediate plan from the government for councils with the Spending Review unlikely this year owning to Brexit.

New data from Breathe London provided has a fresh insight into the capital’s air quality crisis.