Councils wishing to fill budget deficits with cash from parking fines may be disappointed - because drivers are determined to avoid them, a motoring organisation has said. More »
LONDON (AFP) - Critics have slammed a local authority's plans to use excess energy from a crematorium incinerator to heat one of its swimming pools as "sick". More »
A council has defended "insulting and insensitive" plans to heat a swimming pool with a crematorium incinerator. More »
LONDON (Reuters) - As councils across the country face wide-scale cuts in government funding, the northern English city of Liverpool is opening an "embassy" in London to woo investors to help beat the squeeze. More »
Councils in England will struggle to repair potholes caused by extreme winter weather because of a £165 million shortfall in funding, the Local Government Association (LGA) has warned. More »
Former Harlequins physiotherapist Steph Brennan has won a High Court battle over the decision to strike him off for his part in the "Bloodgate" rugby controversy. More »
Tony Blair has said he disregarded his top legal adviser's warning that attacking Iraq would be illegal without further United Nations (UN) backing because the guidance was "provisional". More »
LONDON (Reuters) - Gross mortgage lending fell by 18 percent on the year to 11 billion pounds in December, the lowest figure for a month of December since 2000, the Council of Mortgage Lenders said on Friday. More »
The PM is to write to the mother of a severely disabled girl after she accused him of not doing enough to help those in need of respite. More »
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