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Local authorities in England and Wales have warned their finances are at “breaking point” with more councils expected to fall into bankruptcy in future, as they…

I love that our house is constructed from stone hewn from the ground just metres away. The original mortar and plaster would have been similarly local,…

English councils are planning to sell social clubs, sports centres and shopping arcades as they bet on a fire sale of assets to balance the books,…

Concern about immigration ‘manufactured panic’, says charity, after poll suggests its importance exaggerated by mediaConcern about immigration is a “manufactured panic”, a campaign group has said…

The local government secretary, Steve Reed, is seeking to clamp down on councils introducing four-day working weeks after writing to South Cambridgeshire warning that the policy…

A wipeout for Labour in next May’s local elections would spell the end of Keir Starmer’s premiership, MPs have said, after the party suffered a crushing…

Your report on the problems in Kent county council stresses the conflicts in the ruling Reform UK party over the budget (‘Suck it up’: leaked video…

On the hunt for work? A Local Jobs search is being rolled out by Meta to make it easier for people in the US to discover and…

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Councils in England will still be poorer by the end of this parliament than they were in 2010 despite Labour’s funding increases, according to analysis by…