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Local elections could be delayed again as merging councils lack the capacity for reorganisation, the government has announced, triggering claims from opposition parties that Labour is…

Beachy Head Woman, a Roman-era skeleton once hailed as the earliest known black Briton and who scientists later speculated could be of Cypriot descent, has now…

English councils have received a new three-year financial settlement. But is it fair? Who are the winners and losers? Will your council tax bill go up,…

Even within the freak show that is Donald Trump’s cabinet, the health and human services secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr has a singular knack for dominating…

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…