Plans to replace 46 local fire control rooms with nine regional centres will cost more than double the government's estimates and almost nine times as much as first planned, the firefighters' union...
Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have branded Home Office plans to give hundreds of public bodies access to people's texts, e-mails and internet use a 'snoopers' charter'.
Recent migrants to Britain are twice as likely as other workers to receive less than the national minimum wage, with female workers 1.5 times as likely to be underpaid as their male counterparts,...
Councils preparing to become unitary authorities next April need to work out just how they will make local involvement a reality, local government minister John Healey has said.
More than 600 members of the Public and Commercial Services union at the conciliation service Acas are balloting for industrial action in a dispute over pay. The vote, which runs until August 27,...
Proposals from a centre-Right think-tank to abandon regeneration efforts in Northern cities and encourage residents to move to the South have been attacked as 'plain stupid' by municipal and...
A leading think-tank in Scotland has called on the Scottish Government to provide more information on how its plans for an oil fund will boost the economy.
High-achieving 14-year-olds should automatically take the triple science GCSE to boost the number of pupils going on to careers in science and engineering, the CBI business lobby has said.
The Local Government Association has welcomed the latest municipal waste figures, showing a decrease in landfill and an increase in recycling in England.
A single person with no children needs £158 a week to meet a 'minimum income standard' covering a basic standard of living but excluding housing costs, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found.
The Office for National Statistics has been forced to abandon its flagship Odyssey modernisation programme, admitting that planned changes to the national accounts and household surveys will take...
Joint ventures in which the public sector provides the land and funds and the private sector the expertise may be the key part of a government package to boost the building of affordable homes
NHS trust boards must take the lead in ensuring equal treatment for people with learning disabilities, the NHS Confederation said this week, following a critical report on the service's...
