11 h. ago Council named and shamed as among worst for road and pothole repairs blames ‘data error’

Bolton council said 'unfortunately, it appears there was an error in the data we provided'

Politics

28 h. ago West Lothian Council house rent arrears top £5m with hardest hit areas named

Among the hardest wards include Whitburn and Blackburn, where arrears debt is over £1m, but this is down on the same position in January last year.

Society

65 h. ago Named and shamed: The worst councils for pothole repairs... and Labour are bottom of the pile

The new traffic light rating system grades town halls on road conditions as well as how effectively they are spending maintenance funding.

Politics

66 h. ago Pothole repairs row breaks out as Government names and shames 'worst' London boroughs

Greenwich, Kensington and Chelsea and Waltham Forest each given a “red” rating by the Department for Transport

Politics

4 d. ago 'Hidden' mega pothole leaves more than a dozen motorists stranded on motorway slip road in one night

At least 14 drivers had their wheels mangled in one evening by a lethal pothole hidden on a motorway slip road.

Transport

6 d. ago Manchester's graffiti hotspots have been named as council enlists army of four to fight back

The war on graffiti has seen the council's 'biggest intervention' to date

Sport

1 week ago Life expectancy in each Scottish council area named as major city places last

Scotland overall has seen an increase in life expectancies.

Politics

1 week ago Mike Phillips in tears telling parents of shame over 'worst thing I've done'

The former Wales scrum-half will speak about the incident on a new S4C programme next week

Politics

2 w. ago 'Village of the Jammed' faces 'fresh hell' of 12 more months of roadworks to repair damaged road blamed on controversial decision to direct HGVs along its narrow roads

£8million of taxpayers money will be spent strengthening the ancient embankment along Dinah's Hollow (a single lane C road) at Melbury Abbas in Dorset, the 'Village of the Jammed'.

Events

2 w. ago Named and shamed, England's worst councils for dealing with fly

Using statistics extracted from the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), our map shows the rate at which every council in England hands out fines and pursues prosecutions.

Economics