Browsing: Englands

Nearly three-quarters of England’s woods are off-limits to the public, buried government documents show.The study by Forest Research, which is a government-funded quango, found that 73%…

Councils should train up their own workers to install insulation in England’s draughty houses, and offer home upgrades street by street, beginning in the most deprived…

The report highlighted “unacceptable” instances occurring where staff made cruel or insensitive comments to families when they were most vulnerable, including after baby loss.In one example,…

Plans to halve the attainment gap between the poorest pupils in England and their more affluent peers will be set out by the government on Monday.The…

Reform-led Worcestershire county council is likely to issue England’s largest council tax rise this April after it was given special permission by the government to increase…

Harvey Hind has just turned five. He can count to a thousand. He can recite the alphabet – forwards and backwards – and he loves Play-Doh…

A row between government departments has broken out after the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) proposed cutting all its funding for physical education in…

The privatisation of water in England is not the reason for its failings, the architect of the government’s water plan has said, as he warned there…

At the end of a sorry Ashes loss capped off by news of Harry Brook’s involvement in a late-night incident two months earlier, Brendon McCullum set…

Deep under London’s streets, thousands of miles from Caracas, Nicolás Maduro’s seizure by the US has reopened a multibillion-dollar question: who controls Venezuela’s gold reserves at…