The six mayoral elections include four combined authority mayors in Greater Lincolnshire, Hull and East Yorkshire, Cambridgeshire and Peterborough, West of England, plus two Metropolitan Borough ...

Local councils dealt with a record amount of fly-tipping last year - but fewer enforcement notices were handed out as authorities struggled to prevent people dumping rubbish. Data from the environment ...

There are more than 200 local authority areas in the country where heatwave conditions have started today, as scorching ...

In England, local authorities can increase council tax by up to 4.99% each April without holding a referendum. This is broken down into a 2.99% increase for general spending and a 2% precept for ...

Authorities in Herefordshire, England plan to request Google to remove a road from Google Maps because the navigation app keeps sending heavy traffic on it. The tiny country lanes between Ruxton ...

The Independent has put together the map below which shows the number of fly-tipping incidents in each local authority in England.

A MAP reveals the worst local authorities for sending bailiffs to chase unpaid council tax bills. Around 1.3million households in England and Wales had a knock at the door from debt collectors last… ...

The map below shows the life expectancy for men and women in every local authority across the country. The highest life expectancy is in the south east – 80.3 for men and 84.1 for women, the ...

It reads, from left to right: name of local authority; projected percentage change in population between mid-2022 and mid-2032; estimated size of population in mid-2022 and projected size in mid-2032.

UK ministers are set to force hundreds of local councils and public authorities in England to publish overdue accounts by the end of September as part of efforts to clear an “unacceptable ...

Local elections have taken place all across the UK on Thursday, May 1, the first vote since Labour won the 2024 general election last July. Millions of people will have gone out to vote for 1,631 ...