A House of Lords report has claimed that successive governments have failed to encourage enough fresh power capacity in the UK.

The Electoral Commission will investigate the spending returns of the Stronger In and Vote Leave campaigns from 2016’s EU referendum.

Plans to create less polluted cities need to go further if targets to reduce increasing levels of harmful pollutants are to be met.

Only seven per cent of the British public have been inspired by the Olympic games to take up sport, according to a new YouGov survey.
Commissioned for Pro Bono Economics, of the remaining 93 per cent: 18 per cent cited their busy lifestyle for their failure to get active; 17 per cent quoted the expensive cost of playing sport as being the main reason stopping them; 12 per cent suggested that a lack of local facilities stunted their uptake; while, a further 12 per cent highlighted a lack of confidence to participate in sport.

The Labour party has lost the Copeland by-election by over 2,000 votes to the Conservative party, losing a seat it has held for over 80 years.
Conservative candidate Trudy Harrison received 13,748 votes, as opposed to Labour's Gillian Troughton's 11,601, heralding a ‘truly historic event’, with the win representing the first by-election gain by a governing party since 1982.

Net migration to the UK has reduced by 49,000 with 273,000 people migrating to the UK in the year to September, figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown.

New data reveals that the number of new build homes that have started to be built have continued to rise to the highest level since 2007.

Communities Secretary Sajid Javid has announced a government cash boost of £191 million for the South West to help create jobs, support businesses and encourage growth.

Councillors from Aberdeen City Council have decided against increasing council tax and have become one of the largest councils to opt to freeze the rate instead.

Oxfordshire County Council has criticised NHS proposals to save £200 million, claiming the plans are lacking information.
A consultation has been launched to tackle a predicted funding gap in the county's NHS of £200 million by 2020-21. However, councillors have raised concern that they were not satisfied with the proposed plan, which they claimed was ‘not coherent’.