Millions of people across the country will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving training and support to use tough powers and...

The Highways Agency has today, Friday 20 November, awarded the contract to design and construct the A11 dualling and improvement scheme between Fiveways and Thetford to Birse Civils Ltd.

Millions of people across the country, including 18 areas across the South East, will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving...

A couple from Wigan were sentenced to over eleven years jail today (Friday) for their part in the attempted illegal importation of cocaine with a street value of almost £80,000 at Manchester Airport...

Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has spent the day in Cumbria today, following the severe flooding that has occurred in the last 24 hours.

PROGRAMME 23-29 NOVEMBER 2009

Monday 23 November to Sunday 29 November 2009

East of england roadworks update: monday 23 - sunday 29 november

Weekly round up of road works in wiltshire, gloucestershire, somerset and bristol

Millions of people across the country, including 18 areas across the South East, will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving...

Millions of people across the country, including 27 boroughs across London, will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour (ASB) with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving...

Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside and South Lancashire – 7 days beginning Monday 23 November 2009

Farm safety is firmly on the curriculum for the new intake of students at the Scottish Agricultural College, with practical advice and guidance from the Health and Safety Executive.

Cumbria and North Lancashire – 7 days beginning Monday 23 November 2009

Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge, has placed a temporary export bar on a painting by William Dyce, Welsh landscape with two women knitting. This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep this important...

A scaffolding busuiness was today fined for health and safety breaches after a worker fell more than 10 metres through a roof.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Mark Wilson, trading as MWS...

Saturday 21 November to Friday 27 November

A Department of Health spokesperson said:

A major resurfacing scheme for one of the highest stretches of motorway in the country - nearly five miles of the M6 northbound in Cumbria - has just got underway.

WA51/09

More than 60,000 illicit cigarettes and almost 160 kilos of tobacco - including a haul concealed in boxing punch bags - have been seized in south Wales this week as HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC...

Construction workers in Lanarkshire are being invited to an event this Tuesday (24 November) to find out more about protecting themselves from Silicosis − a potentially lethal lung disease caused by breathing...

Millions of people across the country will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour with up to 10,000 front-line staff and community champions receiving training and support to use tough powers and solve...

Coastguard Rescue teams have been assisting in the response to the flooding incidents in Cumbria and South West Scotland.

Coastguard Rescue teams have been assisting in the response to the flooding incidents in Cumbria and South West Scotland.

Millions of people across the country will get extra help to tackle anti-social behaviour with up to ten thousand front-line staff and community champions receiving training and support to use tough powers and...

A tough new compulsory licensing scheme designed to rid England, Wales and Northern Ireland of rogue wheel clampers, has been set out today in the Crime and Security Bill.

A Stoke-on-Trent firm has won new business to protect an oil and gas ship from pirate and terrorist attacks in the Gulf of Guinea - with support from UK Trade & Investment.

The biggest and most powerful attack submarine ever built for the Royal Navy – Astute – today sailed into her home base on the Clyde.

An Ofsted report published today showcases 12 outstanding special schools that excel at providing for very vulnerable children and young people.

An Ofsted report published today showcases 12 outstanding special schools that excel at providing for very vulnerable children and young people.

The Digital Economy Bill, introduced today, sets out Government plans to ensure the UK is at the leading edge of the global digital economy.

New proposals to protect communities by making the streets safer, shutting down criminal markets and ensuring justice for victims of crime were revealed today in the Crime and Security Bill.

Science Minister Lord Drayson drops into a centre today where teachers return to the classroom to transform their practical skills and inspire the scientists of tomorrow.

A thirteen week public consultation into plans to reduce congestion and improve safety at the A19 / A1058 Coast Road Junction, Northumberland started on 19 November 2009.

• Fraud investigation team honoured • More than 900 suspects arrested • ‘Hundreds of criminals kept off public roads without passing tests’

At the moment when we in the West think about Zimbabwe, we think of...

recent Review by the Independent Advisory Board to the Secretary of State...

The use of hydrogenated vegetable fat in edible products has been linked to...

Every child under the age of 12 must wear a cycle helmet to protect them and...

King's Lynn and District Trades Council urge the government to keep the post...

We ask the government to consider a payment scheme for those people who are...

Please sign this if you agree that this can not work due to it being...

Is the government being honest and fair to the disabled in leaving us with...

It is proposed that the government make morning assembly compulsory for all...

Please sign if you agree that many issues raised conflict against other...

Foie Gras is illegal to produce in Britain, however, because the import of...

Look at the Administartive Staff Management in schools and why many leave...

Some councils and organisations are attempting to do away with Christmas for...

The NHS must provide FREE cranial remolding for babies with Flathead...

Please stop Wolverhampton city council from the proposed service changes as...

Recently a convicted murderer escaped while being escorted on a shopping...

Following a disturbing report on BBC news, regarding private security...

Ban smoking in/near bus stops so that others walking or cycling past bus...

Living in an area that cannot receive signals from a main transmitter, I and...

Paying bills is a complicated business, when some outlets operate Pay Zone,...

too many young people are causing a major dog problem in the uk by breeding...

I beleive that gay rights should be taught to five year olds in primary...

please keep the rugby league challenge cup as a "crown jewel" on tv..it is a...

I am calling for people to sign this petition as energy prices are getting...

All illegal entrants to the UK to be held in a purpose built secure facility...

The nation is being overwhelmed with the massive influx of foreigners from...

This petition will bring an equal starting point children and only the...

My 8 year old son was recently placed in quarantine for 5 days on arrival in...

Further to recent announcements concerning the potential sell-off of...

Unlike prisons persons are allowed to bring mobile telecommunications...

The gaming industry in the United kingdom is failing, with the high tax...

Badgers in urban cities and towns are very destructive, especially to...

Many employers are recruiting via the internet; in order to apply,...

I disagree people losing their jobs when they get banned unemployment rate...

Owners of these sites are vulnerable to hackers and impersonators. It...

Stop budget cuts to the MOD, the NHS, education, police, fire services and...

its in the title, the animals suffer, are cold and have to work long houre...

The trimming and felling of trees must, as a means of ensuring environmental...

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of derelict sites in the Uk, many of...

Rescue centres are full to bursting point with strays and pets that people...

The fact that the Government want to be able to have records of all phone...

Please do not dismiss the Cambridge Review - we owe it to our children! The...

Right now there are real people wandering around on the streets who have...

Too many schools that are deemed fit for learning disabled children, 'ABA'...

All domestic cats should wear collars with bells on .This would protect the...

Children start school too young. This particularly appears to effect summer...

Since schools are recruiting cover supervisors for general cover work,...

The age for gettting a state pension is forever increasing. Soon it is going...

Dear Prime Minister, please encourage pubs to reduce the prices on soft...

to include safe driving lessons within the school curriculum as part of PHSE...

Adjudicator publishes decision on statutory proposals for addey and stanhope secondary and tidemill primary schools, lewisham

Communities at risk of surface water flooding in the London region will be better protected in future under new plans published by the Government today.

At 00:45 this morning Humber Coastguard received a call from Northumberland Fire and Rescue asking for Coastguard assistance in an incident where an elderly lady had become stuck in her car near Coldstream, in...

Road users can also play their part The Highways Agency, which looks after England’s motorways and major A roads, is ready to face severe weather as we head into the winter months, and is asking road users in...

Road users can also play their part

The Highways Agency, which looks after England’s motorways and major A roads, is ready to face severe weather as we head into the winter months, and is asking road users...

Road users can also play their part

The Highways Agency, which looks after England’s motorways and major A roads, is ready to face severe weather as we head into the winter months, and is asking road users...

Improvements are to be made to the central reservation and drainage system on the M4 near junction 14 on the Wiltshire/Berkshire border from 25 November 2009 to March 2010, weather permitting. 

Communities at risk of surface water flooding in the Thames Valley will be better protected in future under new plans published by the Government today.

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Mrs Emma Kate Peters to be an Assistant Judge Advocate General, with effect from 1 January 2010.

Issued by the News Distribution Service on behalf of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman Parliamentary Ombudsman, Ann Abraham, today urged public bodies to improve customer service by acting swiftly...