War on waste declared as Newcastle City Council looks to cut landfill bill
Oldham
Council is supporting a fundraising effort to raise money for a statue commemorating
Annie Kenny, a working class suffragette. Donations can be made here
West Midlands Combined Authority's transport arm to take direct control of Midland Metro services
Bristol
Council to hand out £3.29m to voluntary projects
Liverpool City
Council proposes setting up a Special Purpose Vehicle with Everton Football
Club to help build a new stadium
Secretary of State confirms return of further powers to Rotherham
Islington Council
Leader talks about standing up for EU citizens
in the borough
How Sheffield is
beating the housing crisis
Derbyshire County Council sets up development company to help build on
surplus land (£)
Plans
for 2,000 homes, new school and healthcare hub approved for former GSK site in Greenford
Vision
for new Wolverhampton market revealed as
council submits plans
Tottenham
get planning permission from Brent to play their home games at Wembley
Cllr
Alice Perry’s March 2017 NEC Report
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Attack on Parliament: multiple
casualties, five dead as police shoot knifeman outside Westminster Palace
MP Tobias
Ellwood 'attempted to save life of police officer
stabbed outside Parliament'
Surrey County
Council’s Cllr David Hodge has stepped down as Conservative Group Leader of the Local Government
Association. Cllr David Simmonds, Deputy Leader of Hillingdon, is now the
Leader of the LGA Conservative Group
EU 'not in hostile mood' as Theresa May confirms Article 50 will be triggered on 29 March
PM says Brexit plan to 'strengthen Union' ahead of Sturgeon meeting
Three-quarters of older
people in the UK are lonely, survey finds
Councils
and NHS battle for care cash (£)
Plan to save NHS £1 billion and free up beds by moving patients from hospitals
MPs slam funding crisis and 'postcode lottery' of children's services
Human
trafficking victim referrals surge almost 80% across UK
In Liverpool, Tory cuts
have brought a city and its people to breaking point
Homelessness Reduction
Bill to become law
Bank of mum and dad
finances more English first-time buyers (£)
120,000
children with no home of their own (£)
Warning over segregation in
England's schools
Poor behaviour 'not taken seriously enough in schools'
A
Million pupils missed lessons because of term-time holidays (£)
Flintshire Council pitches in to give boost to sporting facilities
and play areas
Landmark St David's
development in Swansea takes major step forward
New Cardiff link road
set to be ready within weeks
Following the sad death of Gerald Kaufman, the campaign
is underway in Manchester Gorton. Their campaign office is located at Greatledge Printers, Pink Bank Lane, Longsight,
Manchester, M12 5GH and
is open every day. Trains run regularly into Manchester and there is
plenty of parking in the centre itself.
Afzal Khan to stand for Labour in Manchester Gorton by-election
Jeremy
Corbyn MP’s statement on the attack in Westminster
Jeremy Corbyn MP’s speech to Welsh Labour Conference
‘After
seven years of Tory failure
on the economy, it’s the
super-rich who’ve gained at the expense of the rest of us’ - John McDonnell MP
Keir
Starmer MP’s speech at Chatham House: ‘What
next for Britain?’
‘David
Hodge’s resignation makes the need for full disclosure
from the Government more pressing’ - Teresa Pearce MP
Andrew Gywnne MP’s statement on Douglas Carswell leaving UKIP
Margaret Beckett becomes longest serving woman MP
in history
LGA responds to Health Committee report on childhood
obesity
LGA responds to food hygiene standards survey by
Which?
Pavement parking: councils call for ban in London to
be rolled out across the country
Public needs greater awareness of modern slavery, say
councils and fire and rescue authorities
Councils need "full flexibility" over new
£2 billion social care funding
London councils to work with design experts to tackle
tough social issues
LGA responds to figures showing fall in teenage
pregnancies
LGA responds to Localis Report on Industrial Strategy
Councils responds to Crisis and Joseph Rowntree Foundation
Homelessness study
LGA responds to NAO report on the Government's road
investment strategy
LGA responds to APPG for Children's report into
children's social care
UKIP's only MP Douglas Carswell quits party
George Osborne named editor of London Evening Standard
Outrage as Nigel Farage
uses London terror attack to launch 'sick' rant
Former Castle Point MP
charged with electoral fraud
There were 2 by-elections on 23 March 2017:
Herefordshire UA, Leominster South Green 318 [40.8%, +10.1%] It’s Our County 143 [18.3%, +18.3%] Conservative 139 [17.8%, -8.6%] No Description 116 [14.9%] LD 64 [8.2%, + 8.2 %] Green gain from Independent
West Somerset DC, Dunster & Timberscombe LD 174 [49.7%, +49.7%] Con 115 [32.9%, -26.7%] Green 38 [10.9%, -26.9%] Lab 23 [6.6%, +6.6%] Liberal Democrat gain from Conservative
Blackburn with Darwen UA, Higher Croft Null and void
There are no by-elections taking place on 30 March 2017
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