Whitehall guidance encouraging town halls to impose higher parking charges is being scrapped as ministers pledge to end the "war on the motorist".Councils will...
The Open University is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first lecture to be broadcast on BBC television.The ground-breaking transmission, which went to air...
Councils must show "more initiative" about how they can maintain refuse collections during the Christmas holiday period, Local Government Minister Bob Neill has said.He...
Welfare benefits are set to cost about £1.4 billion more than previously expected over the next four years because of rising unemployment, according to...
The Government has launched a review of how the NHS looks after former British service personnel who lost limbs serving their country.Armed Forces charities...
Nervous retailers are promising to soften the blow of the VAT increase for consumers who are already preparing to slash their spending throughout 2011.Retailers...
The 2.5% rise in VAT will drive down retail sales this year, analysts have predicted.As announced in the Chancellor's Emergency Budget earlier this year,...
