Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns was unravelling last night, with Tesco withdrawing from one of the proposed greenfield developments. The supermarket chain, which owns 80 per cent of the land, was providing most of the financial backing for an eco ...

One of the consolations in the current weak property market was meant to be the idea that, however bad things appear, the position is not as bleak as it was in the early 1990s. In one sense, this is still true. Repossessions are still running at ...

DUSHANBE, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao, in a keynote speech Thursday at the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Tajik capital Dushanbe, made a five-point proposal for joint efforts to develop lasting peace ...

Shadow families minister Maria Miller said ministers needed "to come clean and confirm whether this delay is because children's personal information is at risk". The database is designed so that health, education and social workers can share ...

The Labour and Liberal Democrat leaders of Manchester, Bristol, Portsmouth, Lambeth and Hackney are pressing the government to let them compete with banks by offering mortgages. The call is being echoed by London’s local authority umbrella group, London Councils.

THE Federal Government has given Illawarra councils more than $19 million in annual grants as part of what it calls its nation-building agenda.

Rehabilitation Centres would be established in the six area councils of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) following the recent directives by the FCT minister Dr. Aliyu Modibbo Umar.

Some forward-thinking, environmentally-aware pupils at Timaru’s Grantlea Downs School have helped secure support from their regional and district councils to improve the health of their local stream.