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.
Rail regulator Tom Winsor has proposed wide-ranging dispute resolution arrangements for the industry, aimed at preventing a repeat of the legal rows with train operators that followed the 2000...
Network Rail chief executive John Armitt this week claimed the economic benefit of effectively
renationalising track maintenance would be £70m per year, and dismissed claims that the much-maligned...
The prospect of fire strikes flared up again this week as the Fire Brigades Union agreed to suspend its conference and pull out of the proposed modernisation programme.
Transport ministers need to work harder to encourage local authorities and private firms to invest in light rail systems if the ten-year Transport Plan targets are to be met, government auditors said...
Network Rail and the Strategic Rail Authority must be scrapped and a new public sector agency combining both functions set up to end the chaos on Britain's railways, MPs have demanded.
Whitehall's union leaders have asked ministers to clarify the nature and extent of job cuts and relocations urgently, following the Lyons review and the chancellor's Budget statement.