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A man who was fined £1,000 for fly-tipping after leaving cardboard next to a recycling bin has vowed to fight on after having the penalty reduced.

Why does the UK have sluggish growth? Why does the British state struggle to deliver the basics? Andy Burnham has a good and persuasive answer to this question.

Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next week as the Government scraps a 200-year-old law.

As a barrage of Iranian missiles rained down on the Fujairah oil terminal, the explosion was deafening and the destruction dramatic: a brutal fire, thick black smoke stretching into the sky – and untold damage to one of the region’s crucial pieces of fossil fuel infrastructure.

The decades-long dispute between the council and the GMB union resurfaces after a report shows a 140% increase in missed collections.

The government has stated that the demolition of Grenfell Tower could commence in September.

British police have launched an investigation into what they have now confirmed is an Islamophobic hate crime, after 85 Muslim graves were desecrated at Carpenders Park Lawn Cemetery in Three Rivers, Hertfordshire.

Local authority in Surrey declared itself effectively bankrupt in 2023 after series of risky investments.

Since the council declared itself bankrupt, and bin workers went on strike, the city’s streets have become clogged with bin bags and fly-tipping.

Party loses overall control of Broxtowe borough council over claims Labour has abandoned traditional values.

Sale of hundreds of empty homes designed, but not used, for Commonwealth Games attacked as ‘absolute scandal’