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Average household water bills in Yorkshire are set to increase by 5.6% in April, it has been announced. Yorkshire Water said the rise, which amounts to about £2.80 per month, will help fund a £8.3bn ...

A new town centre toilet block is expected to reopen in April following delays caused by the demolition of a neighbouring bank - and a collapsed sewer. Fenland District Council said the building, ...

A disabled man is taking a council to the High Court, claiming its new council tax reduction scheme is discriminatory and has left him in shock. Andy Mitchell, from Taunton, did not have to pay ...

The water is safe for washing and hygiene, the council said, and asked vehicle dwellers to get drinking water from the nearby ...

Victims of the 40-year "Tinker Experiment" have backed a new report's call to award reparations to Gypsy Travellers. The experiment - designed to "assimilate" travellers into society - ran from the ...

A £2m fund set aside to improve Grantham town centre has already been spent, council bosses have said. A meeting of Lincolnshire County Council's (LCC) growth scrutiny committee heard the funds had ...

The government should do more to combat a "putrid" industrial waste site which local residents say is making them ill, their MP has said. People in Kirkby, Merseyside, have complained about ongoing ...

Our Future Starts Here, which is based in Grimsby, has been awarded £1.45m from the National Lottery Community Fund to ...

A former bank in Leicester city centre is being transformed into a new creative hub for young people. Pedestrian, a charity ...

Phil Taylor, who is 65 and from Bank Foot in Newcastle, will leave the Tyne and Wear Metro at the end of March, after 49 years of service, and said he would now spend more time looping-the-loop in ...

The parents of a murdered teenager have opened Norfolk's first knife-surrender bin on the fourth anniversary of his death. Joe Dix, 18, was stabbed seven times during the aftermath of a drugs and cash ...