This consultation started on 26th October 2009 and ends on 25th January 2010.

This consultation seeks views on whether the maximum penalty should be increased, and if so whether the new maximum should be...

This consultation started on 8th October 2009 and ends on 5th January 2010.

The Scottish Government is carrying out a Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) of its consultation on the Energy Efficiency...

A £1.9m, three-in-one Highways Agency project bringing improvements to the M55 in Lancashire got underway last week (Sunday, December 6).

 

A £2m Highways Agency scheme to resurface a stretch of the M6 in Cheshire got underway this week.

Note: The man we referred to as Mohammed in Friday's advisory note was charged in the name of Abdullah today.

Communities Secretary John Denham today extended a major drive to address the concerns of traditional working class communities to a further 84 areas of the country.

A £1.9m, three-in-one Highways Agency project bringing improvements to the M55 in Lancashire got underway last week (Sunday, December 6).

A £2m Highways Agency scheme to resurface a stretch of the M6 in Cheshire got underway this week.

 

A talented pair of Longsight teens joined the cream of the musical crop to star in an opera, after working with professionals at Manchester’s prestigious Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM).

Liverpool-based Jaguar Mailing Systems Ltd has been wound up in the High Court after repeatedly sending unsolicited stationery to businesses then pursuing the recipients for payment.

Almost 92,000 counterfeit and smuggled cigarettes have been seized during a four day blitz by HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) across central Scotland.

HMRC officers, supported by officers ...

Bolton teenagers are discovering that learning isn’t all about classrooms and textbooks with the help of a new course designed to test their knowledge of their two favourite things, music and cars.

The Cabinet Office’s report into HM Revenue & Customs’ (HMRC) capability has been published.

West Midlands motorway and trunk roads maintenance programme - 14-20 December 2009

The Civil Service has shown it continues to improve its capability as it prepares to tackle the challenges of the coming decade, Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus O'Donnell said today.

A large multinational Wednesbury-based firm has been fined by West Bromwich magistrates for health and safety breaches and failing to promptly report an injury.

A46 Longbridge bypass, Warwick

We welcome the principle of the government’s ‘green boiler incentive scheme’ but are disappointed that as currently outlined it will only apply to gas boilers. The 36% of rural households...

Two bankrupt former pub owners from Warehorn,  Ashford have been given suspended prison sentences after failing to tell the Official Receiver that they had sold their pub and fled to Spain with the profits, following...

A Greater Manchester architecture practice is acting as a consultant on a prestigious £4bn regeneration of Shanghai.

A new funding model designed to broaden and strengthen investment in volunteering in health and social care was unveiled today by Care Services Minister, Phil Hope.

Businesses are saving nearly £3 billion a year due to the Government’s Simplification programme which aims to get rid of unnecessary paperwork -  saving firms time, money and hassle - according to the...

The Government has today welcomed the European Commission's approval of the restructuring of the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and State Aid approval for the Asset Protection Scheme (APS).

The Highways Agency has now completed work on the central reservation barrier between Junction 35 and 35a of the M1 near Sheffield.

The Department of Health has today published an update on progress made in kidney care since the National Service Framework was developed five years ago.  It shows that the NHS has significantly improved diagnosis...

A Staffordshire designer of fashion shoes is beating the recession by finding new markets across the globe - with help from UK Trade & Investment.

John Alty will become the new Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the Intellectual Property Office, Minister of State for Intellectual Property announced today.

John Alty will become the new Chief Executive and Comptroller-General of the Intellectual Property Office, Minister of State for Intellectual Property announced today.

WEST MIDLANDS MOTORWAY AND TRUNK ROADS MAINTENANCE PROGRAMME

14-20 DECEMBER 2009

The Government will set out its plans for the future of high speed rail in Britain in the Spring of 2010, Transport Secretary Andrew Adonis confirmed today as he saw the start of full service on Britain's first...

‘Two-thirds of national passenger rail travel will be on electrified routes’

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HM The Queen has appointed James Richard William Goss 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...

The Central Office of Information (COI) has overhauled its framework (roster) of agencies that specialise in merchandise and promotional items.

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Lorna Anne Findlay to be a Salaried Part-time Employment Judge of the Employment Tribunals (England and Wales). Mrs Findlay will be assigned...

The Lord Chancellor, the Right Honourable Jack Straw MP, has appointed Immigration Judge Clive Nicholas Lane to be a Senior Immigration Judge of the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal, based in Bradford, with effect...