Northern Ireland's pro-Good Friday Agreement parties are predicting that June 7's general election will provide a significant boost at the simultaneous local polls.
The Post Office is set to call in postal managers and volunteers to limit the damage caused by a series of strikes by sorting-office workers this week.
A pilot project using Internet technology to educate children who are not attending school has produced impressive results and is set to be rolled out across the country.
A leaked document from the Institute for Public Policy Research on the future relationship between public services and private contractors may foreshadow a total reorganisation of health, education...
Prime Minister Tony Blair's vision of installing directly elected mayors in English cities is looking increasingly shaky as previously pacesetting authorities apply the brakes.
Twenty-two of the poorest neighbourhoods in England have secured a total of more than £1bn in central government regeneration funding over the next ten years.
The Treasury has saved £6.5bn on the housing benefit bill since 1996 because of restrictions on claims introduced by the last government, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
GPs are angry that much is evident. The actions of those who on May Day closed their surgeries to all but emergency cases led family doctors to be mentioned in the same breath as the militant anti-...
The Audit Commission has announced the results of its largest audit services' procurement exercise in which it awarded 38 'framework' contracts worth £34m.
Doctors and managers backed Health Secretary Alan Milburn this week as he announced sweeping reforms to decentralise the NHS and cut at least £100m from the service's administration to plough back...
Transport funding in Scotland is lagging way behind that of England and is producing a two-tier system, according to the chairman of the government's Commission for Integrated Transport.
Rural county councils are defying the prime minister's calls for the countryside to be 'open for business' by planning to keep footpaths and rights of way closed over the Easter weekend.
Local authorities are facing an administrative headache and a hefty bill after the government's decision to put back the local shire county elections and in all probability the general election...
Many councils are not doing enough to provide their services electronically and could get left behind if they do not act soon, local government minister Beverley Hughes warned last week.
The Improvement and Development Agency (Idea) has signed a ground-breaking deal to provide an e-procurement portal that could create one of the 'largest marketplaces in Europe'.
A picture of departmental conflict and policy incoherence emerges in last week's report on waste management from the Commons' environment select committee. The result, it implies, is that local...
The government is to abolish the present system of local authority capital controls in favour of proposals in the green paper on local government finance.
The local government pay negotiations became deadlocked this week, with unions warning of an 'extremely serious situation' if employers fail to improve on their 3% pay offer.
The weather may have relented after what seems like the wettest winter since Noah, but Britain is ill-prepared for the next inundation. Its flood defences are still leaking like a sieve, according to...
Postal voting could replace polling stations in rural areas as ministers battle to keep the May 3 English local elections on course despite the spread of foot and mouth disease.
