Liverpool City Council has announced plans to set up an ethical housing company to deliver 10,000 new homes across the city.

Arts Minister John Glen has announced that the title of UK City of Culture 2021 will be hosted by Coventry, who will take the title from Hull.
The third UK City of Culture announcement comes after the five shortlisted cities were assessed over a number of months by the independent advisory panel, including television producer and screenwriter Phil Redmond.

A £72,500 cap on social care costs due to come into effect in England are to be scrapped, a health minister has said.
The proposed cap was developed following the recommendations of the Dilnot commission in 2011.
But Jackie Doyle-Price told MPs the government would not be ‘taking forward the previous government’s plans to implement a cap on care costs in 2020’.
Labour’s Barbara Keeley accused the government of wasting time and money.

Boaters are to benefit from a £1.4 million investment into Anglian Waterways, as the Environment Agency launches its latest improvement programme.

The Roads Minister has seen a world-first innovation which could see communities affected by floods reconnected more quickly.
The minister saw technology which will allow brigades to be reopened more quickly, improve resilience at key flooding hotspots and help to prevent communities from becoming isolated.

The Medway Flood Partnership has launched the Medway Flood Action Plan, reducing the risk of flooding to 9,000 properties along the River Medway in Kent.

Proposals to introduce charges for the storage of the belongings of homeless households in Aberdeen have been rejected.

The LGA has called on the government to provide urgent clarity over how it will replace current European Union Structural Funds once the UK leaves the EU.

Council planning departments are to miss out on an additional £70 million by the end of the financial year, the LGA has warned.