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Ashley Dalton retains constituency for Labour after resignation of Rosie Cooper last autumnLabour has retained the West Lancashire constituency in a byelection called after its MP, Rosie Cooper, resigned last autumn.Ashley Dalton, a part-time charity w…
Giant teddy bear Bordesley is put in charge of Birmingham city council’s £3bn budget in Stan’s Cafe’s fun new production All Our Money“It came from a place of … what is the worst idea you could possibly have for a theatre show?” says director James Yar…
DfT also says bids for new £200m funding pot for England could include plans for better school routes and inclusive street designsCouncil bids for a £200m funding pot to boost walking and cycling must “take women’s safety into account”, according to th…
Local authorities say policing government’s new standards on smoke pollution is beyond their meansLocal authorities lack the resources for the crackdown on highly polluting wood burners promised by the environment secretary, Thérèse Coffey, they say.Wo…
West Midlands mayor believes it shouldn’t only be up to civil servants in London to make project funding decisionsThe Conservative mayor of the West Midlands has criticised the government’s levelling up policy for being too centralised, and said he cho…
‘That ship has sailed,’ says disgraced former minister in wake of conviction of sitting MP Claudia WebbeThe disgraced former minister Keith Vaz has denied claims he plans to stand again as the MP for Leicester East after Labour officials imposed new co…
This blog is now closed. You can find all our politics stories here:Guardian politics coverageRishi Sunak has welcomed Germany’s decision to send Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine.There is more coverage of the German decision on our Ukraine live blog. Continu…
Exclusive: Labour compiled analysis of waste suffered by cash-strapped local authorities on the scheme, binned by the government weeks laterCash-strapped councils are estimated to have spent £12.5m compiling bids to launch low tax and regulation-lite “…
National Highways faces third intervention by a local authority over infilling, after burying Congham bridge in Norfolk in tonnes of concreteA controversial practice by the government’s roads agency of burying historic railway bridges in concrete has b…
City council aims to undercut private operators and house children with complex needs rejected by other homesManchester city council is setting up two special children’s homes to house the increasing number of vulnerable young people who end up stuck i…