2.6 million people in the UK live more than ten-minutes walk from a park or green space, with less than six per cent of parks legally protected.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government has launched the 2019 iteration of the Great British High Street Awards.

The IPPR is urging the government to introduce free social care to people over 65, funded by a 2p tax rise.

A new report has called for fair provision of public toilets for women, saying the aim should be to have two female loos to every male one.

Schools which remain with their council are more likely to keep a ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ Ofsted rating than those which become an academy.

Homes England has agreed funding deals with 12 local authorities to deliver 4,000 homes across England.

A new study of UK lake sediment records has found that the floods that hit Northern England in 2009 and 2015 were the largest in 600 years.
Published in the journal `Earth Surface Processes and Landforms’, a new report analyses the lake sediment records from the extreme floods of 2009 and 2015, and compared them with a 558 year record from the bottom of Bassenthwaite Lake, Cumbria.

New research has revealed that nearly a fifth of UK public sector organisations reported over 1,000 cyber attacks last year.
SolarWinds gathered the results from central government departments and NHS trusts in a recent Freedom of Information survey looking into the cyber security practices and challenges faced.

Environment Secretary Michael Gove has announced a ban on plastic straws, drinks stirrers, and plastic stemmed cotton buds in England.

Up to 40 new areas will benefit from £15 million to expand promising innovative approaches to keeping families safely together.