A £2 million tourism fund created by the UK government is helping to attract more international visitors to Inverness and Loch Ness.

PwC’s 2017 index shows that cities in the North of England are the fastest improving.

Councils across England are to receive an additional £18 million to help ease pressures on local services resulting from recent migration.
Councils receiving the grants have developed plans to alleviate local pressures arising from migration and at the same time providing overall benefits to their wider communities.
The grants are the second allocations from the £100 million Controlling Migration Fund, following £15 million awarded earlier this year.

Plans to install 100 electric vehicle charging points across the city are among measures to improve air quality in Liverpool.

Manchester has strengthened its approach to tackling homelessness but will need to ramp up its work even further, council says.

Leeds has been named the UK’s top performer in a new report highlighting the country’s most improved places to live and work.
PwC’s annual Good Growth for Cities report saw Leeds come joint number one thanks to a surge in the local tech sector and saw the city climb the ranks in key areas including jobs, new businesses, skills, work/life balance, health, the environment, quality of life, affordability of housing, and income inequality.

Following the launch of the High Speed Two (HS2) Woodland Fund, £5 million is to be invested in woodlands across England.

Derby City Council is seeking to approve the purchase of up to six homes for use as temporary accommodation for homeless people.