Manchester City Council is to invest an extra £1.1 million to boost the cleaning of the 116,000 roadside gullies.

A leading provider of care for those with learning disabilities says it might have to cut some 200 services.

One hundred SMEs have signed up for the chance to get a share of a predicted £3 billion of IT investment over the next four years.

The first minister has confirmed that the one per cent public sector pay cap in Scotland will be scrapped next year.
As Nicola Sturgeon outlined her government’s plans for next year with her Programme for Government, she announced plans to scrap the UK-wide one per cent limit on pay rises that was introduced in 2013.
The pay cap has led to complaints that public sector workers have seen dramatic real-terms drops in their earnings in recent years.

The UK economy no longer translates economic growth into rising earnings, a new report has found.
The Interim Report of the IPPR Commission on Economic Justice proposes ‘fundamental reform’ of the British economy. It sets out new analysis which shows that average earnings per employee have fallen by 6 per cent even though GDP per head has risen by 12 per cent since 2010.