Cross-party committee also recommends overhaul of ‘outdated and regressive’ council tax Ministers must urgently inject £4bn into English town hall budgets to head off an “out of control” financial crisis that threatens to drag well-run councils into bankruptcy and put local services at risk, a cross-party group of MPs has […]

Five people are in hospital after a man threw a suspected corrosive substance at a woman and two children Nine people have been injured after a suspected corrosive substance was thrown at a woman and two young children in south London. The Metropolitan police were called to Lessar Avenue, Clapham […]

Leading doctors and NHS leaders say underinvestment, staff shortages and ageing population pose ‘existential threat’ to service The NHS is in such a dire state the next government should declare it a national emergency, experts are warning, as it emerged that record numbers of patients are being denied timely cancer […]