Edinburgh residents are due to start voting next week on whether the Scottish capital will become the second city in Britain to introduce congestion charging.
French government plans to review working practices, together with a number of pay disputes, have provoked a wave of strikes by public service workers across the country.
The long-running pay dispute at the Department for Work and Pensions could end this week after leaders of Whitehall's largest trade union endorsed a three-year deal, worth up to 15% for some staff.
Serious storms that battered Scotland, Northern Ireland and the north of England, leaving thousands of people without power, prompted an emergency statement from ministers this week.
Northern Ireland's public bodies are facing a growing financial crisis with all of the province's five education and library boards and some health trusts looking at large deficits unless they are...
Six towns have been named as growth areas in a wide-ranging blueprint for planning across Wales announced by Finance and Local Government Minister Sue Essex.
Home Secretary David Blunkett continued his law and order crackdown this week, setting out plans to tackle antisocial behaviour across 50 areas blighted by louts and thugs.
Capital spending in Scotland is to rise by 40% over the next three years, providing more than £3bn for infrastructure, Finance and Public Services Minister Andy Kerr announced this week.
The government will come under renewed pressure to announce a wholesale review of council housing investment after a deal to look at alternative funding options was abandoned on the eve of the Labour...
The safety of rail travel continues to improve, with no passengers killed in collisions or derailments in 2003/04, according to the annual report from the Health & Safety Executive.
Scottish Health Minister Malcolm Chisholm has pledged that he will delay any new hospital closures until a national review group produces a health plan next March.
Students will not apply for university places until they know their A-level results under proposed radical changes to higher education access backed by the government.
Scotland's worst secondary schools are to be boosted by funding from both the public and private sectors, First Minister Jack McConnell announced this week.
Housing leaders are urging the government to stand up to the 'well-funded voice of Nimbyism', which they warn is threatening plans to build more affordable homes.
Social landlords that provide temporary accommodation have been assured that housing benefit will not be replaced with a new allowance paid directly to the tenant.
Hundreds of new trains operating on Britain's rail network have proved less reliable than the old slam-door rolling stock due for abolition, MPs have reported.
Scottish ministers are to gain control of the rail network north of the border in what has been described as the most significant devolution of powers since the creation of the Scottish Parliament in...
Britain's rail network will 'inevitably' be taken back into state control, MPs and union leaders argued this week as Labour set out its transport vision for the next three decades.
A national 'pay-as-you-drive' scheme to fund Britain's roads could replace a combination of road, vehicle licensing and fuel taxes within two decades, the government has announced.
