An Auckland Council boss is blasting protesters and their church leader for verbal and physical attacks on youngsters and families caught up in a “violent and ugly situation” at a city library.

The investment of a quarter of a billion pounds by Swindon Borough Council in improving the standards of the 10,000 houses and flats it owns will need the authority to borrow £152m over the next ...

The investment of a quarter of a billion pounds by Swindon Borough Council in improving the standards of the 10,000 houses and flats it owns will need the authority to borrow £152m over the next five ...

Does this mean she plans to alert the county council to the several gullies and culverts I have reported since I became a borough councillor in 2022? The most prominent being the culvert blocked with ...

A row over the refusal of Stormont’s Education Minister to grant two Co Down schools integrated status has spilled over to the local council, with unionists accusing the Alliance party of ...

LAHORE: Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar was officially appointed as the acting chief justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday. His appointment, however, has sparked controversy ...

A council is set to withdraw from talks to bury nuclear waste in the countryside. Nuclear Waste Services (NWS), a government body, has earmarked an area near Louth, Lincolnshire, to build a ...

A fierce row has erupted in Lincolnshire over plans to create a quarry next to a residential estate, with locals claiming the development would make their homes "worthless". Welton Aggregates has ...

A council decision on care home fees has been ruled unlawful by a High Court judge. Stoke-on-Trent City Council has been told to retake the decision on how much it pays care homes following a ...

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