Housing Minister Grant Shapps has launched a new national scheme that, for the first time, will allow social housing tenants wanting to swap their home to see every available property in the country.
The Competition Commission (CC) is looking at ways to open up more bus markets across the country after concluding that too many operators face little or no competition in local areas.
For the first time the charity Save the Children has provided a local authority breakdown of child poverty figures around the country which show 1.6 million children live in poverty.
Aberdeen City Council has announced that Valerie Watts, the current chief executive of Derry City Council, has been appointed as its new chief executive.
Three local government unions, UNISON, GMB and UNITE, representing more than 1.6 million workers, have today lodged a claim for a pay boost of at least £250 for all council workers in 2011/12, as well as calling for conditions to be reviewed.
An integrated partnership which focuses on the prevention of crime could promote public trust and release valuable resources for frontline policing, according to Northgate Public Services.
