6 h. ago Hamilton MP tours town centre with chief secretary to Treasury

Imogen Walker invited cabinet member Darren Jones MP to the town to highlight the challenges faced by local businesses

Society

8 h. ago Update on when Stockport town centre roadworks will finish as new temporary closure planned

A new crossing is being built for pedestrians and cyclists

Politics

24 h. ago 50 new laws to fight crime announced including police raiding homes without a warrant

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has vowed to 'take back our town centres from anti-social behaviour, thugs and thieves' in one of the biggest ever policing shake-ups

Events

25 h. ago NHS boss Amanda Pritchard QUITS as Labour's Wes Streeting bids to tighten his control of health service

Her departure as NHS England chief executive follows a meeting with the Health Secretary yesterday to discuss his plans for an overhaul.

Politics

28 h. ago Phone theft crackdown: Police to get power to search homes without warrant to tackle street crime 'epidemic'

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said the measures introduced in the Government's Crime and Policing Bill on Tuesday will ‘help take back control of town centres’

Events

28 h. ago 'Express' bus service from Greater Manchester town directly into Manchester city centre is on the cards

The campaign was started following complaints locally regarding the bus service

Transport

30 h. ago New crime Bill will help ‘take back control of town centres’ – Home Secretary

The Government’s new Crime and Policing Bill will be introduced to Parliament on Tuesday.

Society

31 h. ago More than 50 new UK laws to be unveiled TODAY in major shake

The new laws are being brought in with the aim of 'taking back our town centres' as well as new measures on knife crime, stalking, spiking, shoplifting, AI, and protests

Politics

42 h. ago ICC urged to investigate Biden for ‘aiding and abetting’ Gaza war crimes

US-based nonprofit Dawn also accuses ex-secretary of state Antony Blinken and ex-Pentagon chief Lloyd AustinA US-based nonprofit organization has urged the international criminal court to investigate former president Joe Biden and two of his cabinet members for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.The request, submitted by the Democracy for the Arab World Now (Dawn) last month but made public by the group on Monday, urges the ICC to investigate Biden, as well as former secretary of state Antony Blinken and former defense secretary Lloyd Austin, for their “accessorial roles in aiding and abetting, as well as intentionally contributing to, Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza”. Continue reading...

Events

5 d. ago Organizmo! The Colombian architects overturning colonialist ‘sustainability’ ideas

A 30-acre construction lab is helping reshape Colombia’s architecture with ancestral knowledge and direct ecological action. We head inside their smoking doughnutA curious doughnut-shaped structure rises from an overgrown field on the outskirts of Tenjo, a rural town in central Colombia. It looks like a thatched UFO. Bamboo lattice walls curve up from the ground to form its bulging shell, tapering to a central chimney where wisps of smoke waft into the sky. Through the mesh walls, it is possible to make out bodies dancing in a circle around a fire, to the sound of drumming and chanting. “As architects, we need to unlearn everything we have been taught,” says Ana María Gutiérrez, standing outside this momentous structure in muddy overalls, boots and a broad-brimmed black hat. “Our idea of progress is completely based on colonialist, extractivist practices. People talk about sustainability, but what exactly are we sustaining?”The woven doughnut, Gutiérrez explains, is The House of Tho...

Events

5 d. ago Night of violence erupts in town centre as shop workers attacked and abused

'Significant' reports of anti-social behaviour were recieved by police

Events

5 d. ago BBC to face Culture Secretary after bosses apologised for letting 'Hamas chief's son' narrate Gaza documentary

Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy will take the BBC to task over concerns their latest Gaza documentary about ordinary Palestinians starred a boy related to 'Hamas royalty'.

Culture

5 d. ago Driver hospitalised after being attacked and robbed by teen boy and other yobs

The group "descended on" the motorist after a confrontation in Lanark town centre.

Events

6 d. ago Drivers facing queues after town centre road closed following early hours crash

The road was shut for a number of hours

Events

6 d. ago Spudman calls on STARMER to help in his flowerbed row as he battles the council over the pitch he's run his business from for 23 years

Ben Newman, 40, has been locked in a battle with Labour-run Tamworth borough council who wants to remove him from his spot in the town centre.

Events

7 d. ago A (very long) day in the life of Spudman: Jacket potato vendor gets up at 4am before he works gruelling 14 hour shift

Ben Newman, 40, from Tamworth, who is facing eviction from his spot in the Staffordshire's town centre, starts his day at 4am.

Politics

7 d. ago A (very long) day in the life of Spudman: Jacket potato vendor's gets up at 4am before he works gruelling 14 hour shift

Ben Newman, 40, from Tamworth, who is facing eviction from his spot in the Staffordshire's town centre, starts his day at 4am.

Politics

7 d. ago Viral ‘Spudman’ TikTok star wins council apology amid battle to save pitch he’s held for 22 years

A petition to keep Spudman at his site in Tamworth town centre is approaching 100,000 signatures

Events

8 d. ago Man suffered broken ribs after Hamilton town centre attack in broad daylight

The victim was sitting on a bench in Quarry Street when he was assaulted by Kieran Rundell.

Events

9 d. ago Fears for future of town following application to demolish Paisley Centre

Beyond Retail, which owns the town centre mall, has applied to remove a condition from its outline planning permission which demands the three-storey building be redeveloped in phases.

Politics