Flying taxis and routine emergency service drones should be a reality by 2028
Flying taxis, crime-fighting drones and critical 999 care deliveries could all be a reality by 2030 says the Government as it sets out a...
Peers call for empowered leaders and improved finances to regenerate our towns and cities
The House of Lords COVID-19 Committee today calls for a new relationship between central government and local government to empower local authority leaders to...
Chancellor has selective memory when it comes to Public Sector pay
Chancellor Rishi Sunak was accused today by Unite the union of having ‘a selective memory’ when it comes to public sector pay, rewarding...
Charity sees “startling” rise in demand for debt advice
More than 18,000 new StepChange Debt Charity clients completed full debt advice in January 2023, which is at least 22% higher than any single...
123 workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain
A hundred and twenty-three workers were killed in work-related accidents in Great Britain in the last year, according to figures published today (Wednesday July...
MPs demand major changes to ‘cruel’ benefits cap
A commitee of MP's is calling on the Government to take the 82% of households currently affected by the benefit cap that...
BBC goes into war mode footing
The BBC has announced that it will be going back not a wartime like mode with programming being introduced to help the population during...
Test and Trace still failing to find four out of ten contacts of positive...
Positive COVID-19 cases in England rose 8% on the previous week, the same weekly rate of increase as before, the country’s test and trace...
Retail inflation “to get worse before it gets better”
Shop Price annual inflation accelerated to 2.8% in May, up from 2.7% in April and marks the highest rate of inflation since July 2011.
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Government spends 31 times more per mile on maintaining motorways than on repairing local...
The Government spent 31 times more per mile maintaining motorways and A roads last year than they did on funding councils to repair crumbling...