Queen's Speech says Prime Minister Theresa May has promised to work with ‘humility and resolve'.

Met Police say policing could be at ‘significant’ risk as funding is promised for counter terrorism policing.

A £35 million investment in energy innovation projects to deliver clean growth and affordable energy has been introduced.

Plymouth City Council has set up an independent inquiry over administrative problems in the lead-up to the general election in early June.
The investigation was launched after issues emerged with the sending out of postal vote packs to people who had applied for them.
According to the Guardian, a loss of 1,500 postal voting packs was due to a computer problem.
The council had already experienced issues regarding votes as the final number of votes declared for the Plymouth Sutton and Devonport constituency was incorrect, leaving 6,587 votes for Efford and Lipson out.

The chancellor has said the only way the UK will be able to deliver strong growth is a Brexit deal that puts jobs first.

New statistics have shown that the number of new government-funded social homes has plummeted by 97 per cent since 2010.
The figures show that in 2010-11 – the year in which the Tories came to power in coalition with the Liberal Democrats - over 36,700 new socially rented homes were built with government money. However, figures for the the 2016-17 financial year that finished in April indicate that that number had fallen to just 1,102.

Historic England is rolling out its Heritage Action Zones scheme to help transform cities and towns and improve their local communities.

Greater Manchester libraries are introducing a new initiative that aims to help people across the city region launch their own start-up businesses.
Having received £250,000 from the Arts Council earlier in the year, Greater Manchester libraries will now seek to deliver personalised one-to-one business information sessions to visitors at libraries through the Big Ideas Generators project.

Transport for the North has released its Strategic Transport Plan to transform the North’s economy through investment in transport infrastructure.