Salford Quays is at the forefront of Greater Manchester's transformation, but it has a serious litter problem.
Salford Quays is at the forefront of Greater Manchester's transformation, but it has a serious litter problem.
Douglas Ross should be “begging for forgiveness” from Scots for the carnage inflicted by the Tories over the last 14 years, Anas Sarwar has said.
Labour have just clung on to control of Oldham council after a heated afternoon in the council chambers (May 22). The gathering saw a bid for leadership by a ‘rainbow alliance’ made up of Oldham’s Lib Dem, Conservative and Oldham Group councillors.
Two possible candidates for Oldham council’s leader have emerged after a week of ‘chaotic’ negotiations between the borough’s political groups.
The leader of the Liberal Democrats has reiterated that his party is in no ‘grand alliance’ with George Galloway despite one of his candidates appearing in a video with the Rochdale MP.
A Lib Dem councillor in Oldham has lodged a complaint about a parish council's majority party amid a row over a newsletter ahead of the local elections.
A whistleblower has spoken out after it emerged the death of a mental health patient at a hospital is being probed by police.
Sewage spills hit a record high last year with a “disgusting” 21,660 sewage dumps into Scotland’s waterways - or 59 per day - new stats reveal.
A Scottish Lib Dem MP has predicted that his party could be in the Scottish Government after the next Holyrood election.
Sir Ed Davey has refused to apologise to victims of the Post Office scandal from Greater Manchester.
Salford has a Lib Dem on the council again after the party won a key by-election yesterday and promised to "put pressure" on the dominant Labour Group.
Politicians have been told to “shoulder blame” after it was revealed almost 1400 babies have been born dependent on substances since 2017.
New figures published by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show that by the end of October, nearly 18,000 widowed older people, mostly women, have received an average of £12,383 in backdated State Pension payments following a review of their entitlement to the contributory benefit.
A £33 million criminal justice IT system could illegally compromise the personal data of thousands of Scots victims.
The only Liberal Democrat councillor for Salford Quays has quit with immediate effect. Alex Warren, 31, has resigned the seat he has held for 19 months to take up a role as a political assistant to Watford Borough Council mayor Peter Taylor.
Humza Yousaf has said his family in Gaza are drinking water obtained from the sea in order to survive.
West Lothian Council is to ask Holyrood for the £53m it has spent tackling RAAC problems in its schools and community centres.
There are fears that Trafford's status as Greater Manchester's 'affluent' borough is masking areas where people are living in deprivation.
Humza Yousaf has set up a new ministerial group to reverse rising child poverty levels.
Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party suffered a double blow, losing two of out three by-elections as both Labour and the Liberal Democrats overturned big majorities.
Humza Yousaf’s official residence doesn’t meet the Scottish Government’s own targets for energy efficiency, we can reveal. Ministers have been accused of “hypocrisy” after admitting Bute House in Edinburgh has an energy performance certificate (EPC) rating of D.
A charity has declared an “emergency” after over 130 homeless people died in temporary accommodation in Glasgow in three years.
Nearly three quarters of Scots are less likely to wild swim in the country’s waterways because of concern over sewage leaks, a poll shows.
Metallica song and Star Trek Klingon quote being included at his ceremony.Labour councillor Tom Coles was chosen to take over from councillor Hugh Mason in Portsmouth, but in a less-than-traditional approach to the service the new mayor requested the ceremony start with him walking in to a famous Metallica song.Sporting his mayoral robes, Coles chose the band’s 1988 song ‘Eye Of The Beholder’ to be the music played during the historic event — a track taken from the metal band’s fourth studio album, ‘…And Justice For All’. Check out footage of the moment below (via BBC).As if the choice of music wasn’t enough to make the ceremony one that attendees wouldn’t forget, the new mayor also included a Klingon quote in his speech, paying reference to Star Trek.“It’s been a long road getting here and I’m humbled and honoured to stand before you as the Lord Mayor,” he also said at the annual city council meeting (via Portsmouth’s The News).
Linlithgow's Local Area Committee has asked for assurances that police will continue to monitor the parking in the town's high street before Decriminalised Parking Enforcement (DPE) comes in.
The SNP have appealed to Labour and Liberal Democrat supporters to lend them votes in Tory-held seats at the next General Election to "lock the Tories out of Scotland". The SNP came second in each of the Scottish seats which the Conservatives won in 2019 and believes it can wipe the Tories out of Scotland if enough Labour and Lib Dem supporters get behind them.
The deputy chairman of the Conservative Party has been criticised for telling anti-monarchy activists to “emigrate”. Lee Anderson was commenting on the arrests of protesters from the Republic group ahead of the coronation on Saturday morning.
The Mayor of Salford has called on a Lib Dem councillor to resign after he won an election last night — more than 100 MILES AWAY.
Police are being asked to investigate possible breaches of election law over residential addresses on forms given by a Salford councillor who is standing for election in the Cotswolds, a stone’s throw from King Charles’ Highgrove home. Liberal Democrat councillor Chris Twells represents the ward of Ordsall in Salford and is only due to stand for re-election there in 2026, but is also now standing as a candidate for Tetbury with Upton in the local elections on May 4.
A Salford councillor is standing as a candidate in the local elections… in the Cotswolds. Chris Twells is not up for re-election in his Ordsall seat on May 4, but his name will appear on ballot papers in the leafy district of Tetbury with Upton.
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