Under plans to modernise elections in Wales, those aged 16 and 17 could soon be able to cast their vote in council elections.
The Welsh government wants to lower the voting age to allow younger people to vote at the council elections in 2022, and is also expected to announce plans to give non-UK citizens who are ‘living legally in Wales’ a vote. Wales' next local authority elections to be held in May 2022.

Ofsted has given Rotherham Council an overall ‘Good’ rating in its latest inspection, following on from its child sexual exploitation scandal.

Cambridge City Council and South Cambridgeshire District Council have launched a new metal recycling campaign.

Labour has promised to tackle the scandal of rough sleeping by pledging 8,000 affordable homes for people with a history of sleeping on the streets.

Manchester City Council has announced plans to undertake major refurbishment works to transform the Ben Street residential area.

Southwark Council will cut its investments in fossil fuels by agreeing to move £150 million into the Blackrock Low Carbon Target Equity Fund.

Despite social care pressures, Staffordshire County Council has announced that a record £310 million will be spent on care this year.

The Auditor General for Wales has said that councils need to improve the governance and financial management arrangements they have in place.

Glasgow City Council is to stop using plastic straws in a bid to prevent tens of thousands of plastic straws a year going to landfill.

The RAC has recorded an 11 per cent increase in breakdowns caused by poor quality roads in the last three months of 2017.