At twenty minutes to two this afternoon Brixham Coastguard were alerted by mobile phone to two male casualties, at Long Quarry Park at Ansteys Cove, to the north of Hopes Nose.

CEN 77.09 Visitors to this year’s BBC Good Food Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham later this month will be able to check out the latest counterfeit designer goods at the HM Revenue & Customs...

* Six draft National Policy Statements to guide planning decisions on energy infrastructure * Ten sites named as potentially suitable for new nuclear * A Framework for the Development of Clean Coal

Tyneside shipbuilders A&P are celebrating the return of Naval shipbuilding to the North East today with the award of a £55M contract to construct a section of the Royal Navy’s giant new aircraft...

Ports around England and Wales will have a new planning framework to work in when considering development, thanks to the launch of the Government's new National Policy Statement (NPS) for the sector.

PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today on the future of the credit card market.

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

Shrewsbury to get £135,000

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

The Government is seeking further views on whether to allow product placement in programmes made for UK television. A consultation, also asking what safeguards should be in place should the product placement ...

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

The NHS is this week running the first national Self Care Week to raise awareness of the improvements everyone can make to their health by taking a more active role in their own health and wellbeing.  Self Care...

- Funding for Brighton, Aylesbury and Woking -

Following the recent deaths of Britain's two remaining veterans from the First World War - Harry Patch and Henry Allingham - we have lost our last living link with those young servicemen and women who gave their...

The motorway linking Rochdale and Oldham in Greater Manchester is getting junction numbers for the first time.  

Rural practitioners are meeting today at our ‘Releasing the potential of Rural Economies: Empowerment’ summit to examine ways of empowering rural communities to tackle environmental and economic...

Press release to accompany our ‘Releasing the potential of Rural Economies: Empowerment’ summit, 9 November 2009 

148/09 The Government is seeking further views on whether to allow product placement in programmes made for UK television. A consultation, also asking what safeguards should be in place should the product placement...

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

Shrewsbury to get £135,000

Government announces £10m cycling investment

The iawards - the first government-led awards initiative to recognise and celebrate the best of British science, technology and innovation - today announces the shortlist of finalists. 

The Metropolitan Police Authority’s Civil Liberties Panel held an open meeting at City Hall on Thursday 5 November to hear directly from environmental organisations, protest groups and individual campaigners ...

Pensioners who’ve overpaid tax on their interest from savings could be eligible for a tax windfall, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced today.

The Government's Cycling Demonstration Towns, the Peak District National Park and sustainable transport charity Sustrans are set to benefit from a £10m package of cycling improvements, Transport Minister...

Advance work to reduce congestion and improve safety on an 11 mile stretch of the M1 in Derbyshire will begin overnight on Monday 16th November – thanks to £4.8 million Government fiscal stimulus funding...

Work on a new concrete safety barrier along the M62 in Greater Manchester - accelerated for delivery as part of the Department for Transport's £700 million fiscal stimulus package – is to begin later...

Updated Press Release:

The Universities Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Lord Browne of Madingley as chair of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student...

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Pensioners who’ve overpaid tax on their interest from savings could be eligible for a tax windfall, HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) announced today.

NEW WORK

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Sara Jane Woffenden to be a Salaried Part-time Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales).

HM The Queen has appointed Richard John Byerley Parkes QC to be a Circuit Judge on the advice of the Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP. 

The Department of Health’s Act F.A.S.T. campaign has led to an increase of more than half (55.5%) in stroke calls to 999*. 

Leeds employers are the focus of an intensive health and safety push as Leeds City Council and the Health and Safety Executive join forces to address potential problems in local businesses.

The Universities Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Lord Browne of Madingely as chair of the Independent Review of Higher Education Funding and Student Finance.

Two new toolkits to help agents avoid common errors when filing clients’ returns were launched today by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC).

Advance work to reduce congestion and improve safety on an 11 mile stretch of the M1 in Derbyshire will begin overnight on Monday 16th November – thanks to £4.8 million Government fiscal stimulus funding...

Five Low Pay Commissioners will visit London on 10 and 11 November on a fact-finding visit about the National Minimum Wage.  This is one of a number of visits the Low Pay Commission is making around the UK during...

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Sara Jane Woffenden to be a Salaried Part-time Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales). Ms Woffenden will be assigned...

HM The Queen has appointed Richard John Byerley Parkes QC 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...

Embargoed 00.01 Monday 9 November 2009 The Department of Health’s Act F.A.S.T. campaign has led to an increase of more than half (55.5%) in stroke calls to 999*.