Residents say they are not nimbys but village lacks infrastructure for new homes most cannot afford

The one-year-old is in stable condition at a local hospital, officials said on Saturday evening, and a 24-year-old is also injured

Editorial: Democracy’s link to the places that matter to people are being eroded, a concern given next month’s elections

There were extra stops suggested by locals, but TfL wanted to make sure services are quick

The schemes must be voted on before introduction, but some say councils can in effect force local employers to fund them

A sleeping Rishi Sunak is beset by monsters of privatised water, bankrupt councils, local elections and more

Emergency services rushed to the scene in the Australian city at 3:30pm local time on Saturday as shocking videos showed a man wearing shorts and a green and yellow shirt carrying a blade

It is the only local authority which has business as well as resident voters, a system one local said is 'desperately in need of reform'

EXCLUSIVE: Ed Miliband, Labour's shadow energy secretary, told MyLondon that he 'won't advocate' for ULEZ schemes in other UK cities but local leaders can make their own decisions

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A resident said the housing association had offered locals 'peanuts' for their homes

This is the moment a two-year-old boy who went missing in the countryside was found by a police helicopter. The toddler was reported missing from his home in Italy on Tuesday (9 April) and an urgent search was launched. The Vigili del Fuoco launched ...

This BBC Scottish crime series gives a lot, very quietly. A decade late, I have happily jumped on the bandwagon/slow-moving local ferry

False information on cholera led to a ferry sinking off the coast of Mozambique, officials have said. President Filipe Nyusi said more than 100 people died and almost 20 are still missing after the boat sank off the northern coast. Silverio Nauaito, ...

The Mayor of London has written an open letter to some electors

Money spent on tobacco products in England ‘could instead be spent in shops, on entertainment or other services’, author adds

Greater Manchester police urge public to come forward after ‘disturbing incident for the local community’

Exclusive: Exasperated charity ‘standing up for local residents’ with self-funded plan to reduce drug harms and stop discarded needles littering streets

Voters across Poland are casting ballots in local elections in what is the first electoral test for the coalition government led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, nearly four months after taking power

This is the moment a son shoots his father’s accused killer in the middle of a Brazilian courtroom. Cristiano Alves Terto, 27, shot Francisco Cleidivaldo Mariano De Moura, 38, six times during a jury session for his father’s murder trial i ...