£30 million of funding for towns and villages along the route of the new High Speed Two railway will help improve road and cycle safety.

Proposals to develop community libraries have been backed by Bath & North East Somerset Council who plan to keep the mobile service operating.

Recent flooding in Lancashire has led to Labour suggesting that cuts to flood funding shows that the government has ‘called it dangerously wrong’.

A new £190m programme designed to accelerate the rate at which Full Fibre networks are made available across the UK has been opened.
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport will now accept bids from UK public bodies to stimulate commercial investment in full fibre networks across the whole of the UK by demonstrating approaches that encourage additional private investment.

55 per cent of office workers would feel more comfortable and be more productive with their departmental manager sitting away from them.

Work undertaken by WRAP into the business case for greater consistency has shown a ‘mixed picture’ in regards to the strengths of implementing the framework.

The Oxfordshire Growth Board has announced that the Oxfordshire councils and OxLEP have reached an outline Housing and Growth Agreement with the government.

CCS has released further details about the new Legal Services Marketplace, expected be awarded in 2018 and estimated to be worth £650 million.

Greater Manchester Combined Authority has announced a new wave of radical proposals to address homelessness and save lives as winter draws in.
Greater Manchester Combined Authority and Manchester’s 10 councils, alongside business and public services, have created the £1.8 million scheme to provide hundreds of rough sleepers the chance to start a new life off the streets.