HA/E41/09 The Highways Agency is advising road users of overnight roadworks on the A14 westbound between Newmarket and Girton, near Cambridge, starting today – Wednesday 1 July.

SE184-09 The replacement of the Wolvercote Viaduct in Oxfordshire will come a step closer later this month when steel beams to support the new northbound carriageway will be moved into place. The viaduct crosses...

SE184-09 The replacement of the Wolvercote Viaduct in Oxfordshire will come a step closer later this month when steel beams to support the new northbound carriageway will be moved into place. The viaduct crosses...

The Highways Agency has reunited a Leicestershire family with their dog this week after it was found running down a busy dual carriageway

Around 11.15 this morning Clyde Coastguard were alerted to a 59 year old man from Glasgow who had fallen on rocks at Ardwell Bay near Stranraer.

Motorsports fans heading to Silverstone in Northamptonshire and road users travelling through the region this weekend are advised by the Highways Agency to plan their journey before setting off.

‘Rural Money Matters: A Support Guide to Rural Financial Inclusion’ is designed to help local authorities and their local strategic partnership members understand, identify and tackle...

The best way to promote inclusion is by getting broadband out to these areas! Lots of rural zones more than 3 Km from exchanges and no hope of next gen access.

Thanks for your comment Chris. Broadband access is certainly important for improving access to services such as debt advice, online banking, etc. and the guide highlights case studies where web-based services...

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This report summarises the main messages arising from our Upland Communities inquiry's regional hearing in Ilsington, Devon, 23-24 April 2009...

Will broadband be vital to the future of upland communities? This was one of several topics discussed by contributors attending our 5th Uplands inquiry hearing, in Ilsington, Devon.

Some...

Our community in south cumbria has only  0.5mb speed Broadband, and this is intermittent for many of us. We have written to BT many times. The problem is old aluminium cable which they flatly refuse...

Thanks for your post Mandy.

In their Digital Britain report the government pledged to deliver a Universal Broadband service of a minimum 2mps no later than 2012, but there are still questions...

TOSVR 06 (NORTH EAST) Highways Agency Traffic Officers in the North East started using new safety powers for the first time yesterday (Tuesday, June 30).

The Central Office of Information (COI) has radically overhauled its framework (roster) of market research agencies. A total of 108 agencies from across the UK secured a place on one or more of the five lots. ...

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) has selected DLKW to develop new creative work for an awareness raising employment rights campaign, to run over the next two years.

The Traffic Commissioner for Scotland has ordered a Clydebank bus company to reduce the number of vehicles they can operate, after learning that a wheel came off one of their buses while in service.

After a deployment lasting five years on operations in Afghanistan, the Joint Force Harrier’s last remaining squadron returned home today, Wednesday 1 July, to their base at RAF Cottesmore in Rutland. Personnel...

The East of England is being challenged to adopt a healthier lifestyle and, at the same time, do something positive for the environment by joining Muck In4Life. This new campaign is being run by the Department...

The Government has proposed a new law to protect people who experience discrimination because of a combination of two characteristics, such as Black, and minority ethnic women or religious men.

A major multi-partner European research project aiming to tackle the problems posed by seafarer fatigue has been launched with a two-day inaugural meeting at Warsash, in the UK.

A major multi-partner European research project aiming to tackle the problems posed by seafarer fatigue has been launched with a two-day inaugural meeting at Warsash, in the UK.

Highways Agency Traffic Officers in the North East started using new safety powers for the first time yesterday (Tuesday, June 30).

 

The East of England is being challenged to adopt a healthier lifestyle and, at the same time, do something positive for the environment by joining Muck In4Life. This new campaign is being run by the Department...

Members of the Highways Agency A160 Immingham project team will be available for interview at the first day of the A160 Immingham improvements exhibition at South Killingholme Community Centre on Friday 3rd July...

Her Majesty The Queen will honour the memory of thousands of Service Personnel who have given their lives for this country by giving Her name to a new form of recognition for military families, it was announced...

The East of England is being challenged to adopt a healthier lifestyle and, at the same time, do something positive for the environment by joining Muck In4Life. This new campaign is being run by the Department...

Fleet Street will be in for a major shock this week – a government minister is getting up on his soapbox to defend the press.

HM The Queen has appointed Ebraham Mohamed Mooncey to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP.  The Right Honourable The Lord Judge, Lord Chief Justice of England...

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has issued a new warning urging parents in Scotland to keep their children away from construction sites so they stay safe.

Road users across the West Midlands will this week begin to benefit from a change to how Highways Agency services are delivered in the region.

OVERNIGHT FULL MOTORWAY CLOSURES and LINK ROAD CLOSURES

 

M6 northbound carriageway between J4 - J4A

M42 northbound carriageway between J7A - M6 southbound J4 link road

M42 northbound ...

Motorsports fans heading to Silverstone in Northamptonshire and road users travelling through the region this weekend are advised by the Highways Agency to plan their journey before setting off.

The Met Office has raised the heatwave warning alert again today on behalf of the Department of Health.

Heatwave conditions have been confirmed across parts of the UK, as the Met Office raises the Heat-Health Watch to level three for London and South East England.

SPEC 12/09 Families and individuals currently receiving tax credits are being reminded that they need to renew their claims by 31 July – otherwise their payments could stop.

126/2009 From today, visitors to the UK from South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland will only be able to travel with a visa.

HA/E41/09 The Highways Agency is advising road users of overnight roadworks on the A14 westbound between Newmarket and Girton, near Cambridge, starting today – Wednesday 1 July.

Highways Agency Traffic Officers in the North East started using new safety powers for the first time yesterday (Tuesday, June 30).

Notwithstanding the ramifications that such action will inevitably have, the...

those on jobseekers get free prescriptions,while those with long term...

Pressure sores are estimated to currently cost the NHS up to 4 billion a...

Recently French President Nicolas Sarcozy has made it clear that the use of...

there is an unfair and apparently discriminatory distribution of who pays...

Up to 2000 children a year are diagnosed with development dysplasia of the...

The Prime Minister needs to focus on the employment strategy and see how he...

The cost of VED for both a car and mid sized motorcycle can easily exceed ...

it would assist the local communities, policing authorities, councils etc if...

Following the recent decision to not reduce the age where women are able to...

Create more Parent and Baby parking spaces and to have the same "law"...

Some of the prices for public transport are just too expensive.. It should...

Since the Dangerous Dogs Act was introduced, numbers of the 'Pitbull' type...

to help stag beetle numbers increase and to make people realise killing mini...

To review the law democratically under Local Government Act relating to the...

These outer sea walls could be built hundreds of yards or even miles out to...

They are ugly, use oil to make, usually people use them to litter the...

Central to the "Every child matters" policy is the idea that services and...

There is massive disappointment at the decision of the LSC to only fund 13...

Single parent who are home schooling should not be forced to look for...

We should have less tolerance for the terrorists that fight against us in...

After completion they will stay on the reserve list for a minimum of 4 years...

Soldiers in the Armed Forces, (Airforce, Navy & Army) should have the same...

Other interest groups have increasingly secured limitations on the...

In a recent Scottish court ruling the "famine song" was ruled to be racist...

We the undersigned believe that the General Teaching Council for England...

A policy should be created to ensure energy providers fully cover the costs...

Public sector pensions are unaffordable and are storing up massive problems...

Too many online adverts show prices to grab people's attention to an offer....

There are new lights that are 30% brighter which are like laser lights and...

It is the intention of the incumbent Government of Scotland to bring forward...

Although the Veterans Badge is worn with pride by Servicemen and Women up...

'...Stop lash inserts used in mascara adverts' -- Miss Siobhan Burke

A local petition against the proposed Eco community development at Rackheath...

Many websites require users to create accounts with username, password, and...

There is supposed to be a lack of teachers yet hundreds face unemployment...

Currently taxpayers who fund OFCOM, for example, are legally barred from...

In the 1950s, the Kenyan Mau Mau rose up against the British Empire to fight...

In light of the current MP's expenses scandal, the provision of free school...

The current plan proposed by the French government under Sarkozy s...

A drive by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) to ensure young people have access to things to do on Friday and Saturday nights, the times they need them most, will kick off with a special...

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff in the London Borough of Richmond are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and...

Hard copies of this publication can be requested from Will Aston, Rural Financial Inclusion Champion at: ruralmoneymatters@ruralcommunities.gov.uk

People in rural areas experience the same...

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This State of the Countryside Update aims to help extend and develop our understanding of the scale and depth of rural financial inclusion ...

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Press release to accompany the launch of 'Rural Money Matters: A support guide to rural financial inclusion'.

Bringing forward the switch-off of analogue radio services and forcing everyone to use unreliable and patchy digital radio just seems like a bad, bad idea. I have six radios of different shapes and sizes...

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Our consultation response welcomes the Housing and Planning Delivery Grant (HPDG) to incentivise local authorities to improve delivery of...

I'm sure John Coleman can name these developers who supposedly like working with housing associations, but frankly as a small developer of new housing in the South-East, it's the last thing I would want...

We welcome the Housing and Planning Delivery Grant (HPDG) to incentivise local authorities to improve delivery of housing and other planning outcomes as part of their strategic, place shaping ...

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Job description for the role of Human Resources Administrator.

We're looking for a part time Human Resources Administrator to provide administrative support across a range of HR services. Covering everything from recruitment to payroll, your responsibilities will...

‘Rural Money Matters: A Support Guide to Rural Financial Inclusion’ is designed to help local authorities and their local strategic partnership members understand, identify and tackle...

SE183-09 A major maintenance scheme starts on the M3 in Hampshire between junctions 5 and 6 on Wednesday 8 July 2009. This work will provide drivers on the southbound carriageway with a new road surface along...

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SE180-09 Weekly roundup of road works in Surrey, Hampshire, South Oxfordshire and South Berkshire

All of the following work is dependant on suitable weather conditions.

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Weekly summary of roadworks in Kent and Sussex

All of the following work is dependant on suitable weather conditions.

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff at Southampton City Council are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and independence...

'The economic downturn is bringing into sharp focus the need for rural people to be able to get the right financial advice at the right time. Rural Money Matters will help to achieve this.' Dr. Stuart Burgess...

People in Leeds will get the chance to question Care Services Minister Phil Hope as well as representatives from UNISON and Age Concern/Help the Aged about dignity in care at a Question Time style event hosted...

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff at Knowsley Council are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and independence...

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Suffolk County Council make a real difference for young people leaving care Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from ...

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff at Bolton Council are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and independence, ...

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff in the London Borough of Richmond are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and...

England's bus fleet will be helped to go green thanks to a new £30 million fund to encourage the purchase of low carbon buses.

Flexible individual support, high aspirations and a commitment from social care staff at Southampton City Council are successfully helping young people leaving care make the transition into adulthood and independence...

This consultation started on 23rd June 2009 and ends on 18th September 2009.

Communities and Local Government is the sponsoring department for the three statutory UDCs: London Thames Gateway Development...

This consultation started on 29th June 2009 and ends on 2nd October 2009.

This consultation is seeking the views from a range of stakeholders to identify opportunities, ascertain opinion as well as views...

This consultation started on 29th June 2009 and ends on 21st September 2009.

A charge would be introduced through regulations made under the Climate Change Act 2008.

The Welsh Assembly Government...

This consultation started on 29th June 2009 and ends on 25th September 2009.

This consultation explores issues arising from the implementation of a Code of Practice on taxation for banks.

The following...