Friends of the Earth have revealed that there is no funding earmarked specifically for natural flood management, despite ministers encouragement.

New research has claimed that four in five UK local authorities have insufficient care for older people in their area.
The Family and Childcare Trust Older People’s Care Survey 2016 research revealed that 6.4 million people aged 65 and over are living in areas that do not have enough older people’s care to meet demand, with the biggest shortages being experienced by the most vulnerable.

Nine former Health Secretaries have voiced ‘alarm and dismay’ at the government's failure to improve mental health services.
Arguing that Prime Minister Theresa May’s ‘warm words’ are yet to be backed by action, the former secretaries of the last 20 years urged the government to fulfil its pledge to treat mental health on a par with physical health.

The Morpeth Flood Alleviation Scheme has been Project of the Year in the 2016 Constructing Excellence Awards.
The £26 million scheme, which opened last year, includes upstream storage and urban flood defences and is thought to have prevented hundreds of properties from flooding last winter when the dam operated for the first time.

Savings of £31 million have been delivered to Barnet Council three years after the council outsourced a contract to Capita.

A new report is urging the government’s Autumn Statement to include a controversial air passenger duty tax cut of 50 per cent.
In a report, A flight plan for Brexit - Aboloshing Air Passenger Duty, the British Infrastructure Group (BIG) said air passenger duty (APD) should be cut by 50 per cent, before being scrapped altogether.

The government ‘must do more’ to understand local authority finances and their impact on taxpayers, PAC says.

In doubling its road budget, Glasgow City Council will fund £16million to tackle the Scottish city’s pothole problems.
An additional £8 million of investment is reportedly to be made in the new year, targeting a minimum of 20,000 potholes, resurfacing more than 200 residential streets and fixing 50 kilometres of damaged pavements.
Audit Scotland reported that Glasgow City Council and East Dunbartonshire Council spend more on roads than any other local authority, working out at around £15,000 for every kilometre.

More than £300 million has been granted to help young people from any background enjoy the benefits of music and the arts.
Providing the investment over a four year period, the government will finance a network of 121 music education hubs to work with schools, local authorities and community organisations to get more young people taking part in music and arts.
Music hubs, which will use the funding to further their reach, help hundreds of thousands of school, aged children access activities like playing an instrument, singing in a choir or joining a band every year.

£4 million of funding to repair and improve Cumbria’s tourist trails following the flooding in the region has been announced.