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Land Rover driver rams workman after ignoring road closure

Land Rover driver rams workman and sends him 'flying into a bush'

Wakefield councillors are to consider options on how to accommodate the growing number of children and young people in care.

Wakefield children in care: Council to consider rise in placement numbers

Between January 2023 and June 2024, nearly 5,000 dogs and over 20,000 cats were reported missing.

How to find a missing dog: 6 tips on what to do if your dog gets lost

Worcester City Council insists the tree in Columbia Drive poses no immediate risk and has issued a protection order for it. Inset: Chris Davis

'Menacing' 100ft tree could crush my home but council won't chop it

Peter and Patricia Clarke outside their home in Grange Park, Swindon, which has been flooded 20 times over the past three years.

Our home has flooded 20 times...it's like Niagara Falls when it rains

Colliery Memorial Wheel and Garden at Upton Country Park

Local resident steps up to restore neglected Upton Memorial

The council is asking Wakefield residents for their views on upcoming Council Tax Support scheme changes.

Wakefield Council asks for feedback on upcoming Council Tax Support scheme

Before-and-after pictures show how a house of horrors which was turned into a makeshift dump has finally been cleared of rubbish after more than a year.

Makeshift tip FINALLY cleared as nightmare neighbour evicted

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Nightmare tenant with rubbish dump in front garden gets EVICTED

The aftermath of the blaze at the Bristol Avenue tip

Video shows devastating tip blaze caused by a single e-bike battery

Phil Austin has built a lighthouse in the middle of Salford - 30 miles away from the nearest coast.

I was refused planning permission for a home...so I built a LIGHTHOUSE

Furious resident Douglas Debnam on Whitebarns Lane in the village of Furneaux Phelham in Hertfordshire, is embroiled in Britain's longest running pothole row.

Our council want £100k to fix road with 32 potholes...we're furious!

Horrified residents are demanding action after their neighbours turned their home into a makeshift TIP with tonnes of rubbish dumped on the driveway.

Next door has a rubbish dump in the garden...it's making our kids sick

Betty Calloway (90) from Stirchley, who has issues with an overgrown council hedge that has turned her dream move into a nightmare.

Overgrown hedge is 'swallowing' my garden...I'm fuming

Retired bank worker, Nick Wisniewski, 66, is the last person living on 'Britain's loneliest street' which is all due to be knocked down - but he's refusing to move.

'I'm not moving!' Council move to evict man on derelict estate

School classroom.

Watch: School absence fines rise details explained
Watch as reporter Lauren Tiller details the rise to school absence fines - as 57% of parents said they have or would consider their child missing school for a day or more for a holiday.
Jessica Martin

Video grab of a rat infested alleyway off Franciscan Road in Tooting, south London. October 2 2024.

I passed a swarm of rats on the school run...it was disgusting!

Wakefield Council has confirmed the scheme to increase the number of pitches at Heath Common has been halted as part of spending cuts.

Council halts £5.8m plan to extend traveller site at Heath Common

West Sussex landscaper Harry Smith-Haggett, 22, has been filling in Horsham's potholes with flowers dubbed 'pretty potholes'.

'I made my roads pretty!' Pothole flowerbed service goes viral

College Grove, Wakefield.

Council agrees HMO clampdown on ‘rogue landlords’

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

A desperate man claims a council is doing "nothing" after his mould-ridden flat left a relative hospitalised.

Inside our mould-ridden council flat which left a relative in hospital

Latest planning applications

Latest submitted planning applications

Muktar Singh, 55

Huge mountain of fly-tipped rubbish attracts 'rats the size of cats'

(Photo: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Thousands of households to receive £500 summer holidays payment

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

Lime trees growing either side of High Street in Henley-in-Arden, Warks., had their tops hacked off without notice leaving locals “devastated”.

Residents left furious after council "butchers" trees to save cash
Residents in a leafy market town are “furious” after their council ‘butchered the trees beyond all recognition’ - to save money.
Lucinda Herbert

Thousands of households to receive direct payments of up to £500

1000s of households to get direct payment worth £125 - how to apply

Wakefield Council looks set to scrap plans to build houses on the old Parkhill Colliery site at City Fields in favour of a new school.

Council set to scrap City Fields housing scheme to build new school

firefighters tackle blaze at Warbreck Hill Road

Watch: Firefighters tackle huge blaze at former DWP office

Ben Newman The Spudman, who has built an online community of two million people on TikTok selling jacket potatoes at his trailer in Tamworth.

Watch: Tiktok's Spudman gets kicked off his patch by local council

Gas cannister exploded after being incorrectly thrown out with household rubbish

Watch: Gas cannister explodes and is sent flying at binman

Grove Lane Park play area improvements complete

Take a look at Grove Lane Park’s new play area after its £29K revamp

Tim Webb, 66, is trying to highlight the pothole issue - by photographing toys at some of the 'greatest' pothole sites in his local area.

Pothole tourist turns road defects into mini works of art

The demolition of Cliff Farm in Trimingham. May 10 2024.

Watch: Farmhouse hanging over cliff edge gets demolished

Rae Boxley, 51, has been trapped in her home by badgers but the council won't help because they are a protected specie

Badgers have kept me prisoner in my mouldy home for 12 years

Michael Perkins is fighting for right to park on his own drive in Warndon, Worcester

Watch: Council ban owner of 'eyesore' motorhome from parking on drive

The Save Sitlington residents' group has been set up to fight plans for a major solar farm across straddling the border of Wakefield and Kirklees.

Council rejects plans to install panels across 133 acres of greenbelt

Destiny Mitchell, 26, is homeless and has turned a bus stop into a temporary home on the Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Watch: Our home is a disused bus shelter...it's going to be demolished

Protest sign at a roundabout on Eastern Way in Daventry - A series of protest signs highlighting the Daventry pothole problem by the mystery campaigner.

Mystery pothole artist mocks council with funny road signs

The huge pothole on Trinity Close in Stratford-upon-Avon, in front of the Holy Trinity Parish Centre and opposite to the Holy Trinity Church entrance. Local resident Matt Beacham, 57, with his sausage dog Richmond (inset).

Video shows dog going for swim in UK's oldest pothole measuring 9ft

Ryan was placed into foster care with Wakefield Council of at the age of 10.

Care-leaver reveals how children’s social workers helped change his life

Tom Frater, Regional Director North East and Yorkshire at Historic England, Louisa Brooks from City and Provincial Properties, Coun Michael Graham, Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Economic Growth at Wakefield Council,and Duncan Wilson, Historic England’s Chief Executive.

Council welcomes £625K from Historic England to repair the former textile mill

Shocking footage from a bodycam captured the moment a raging van driver threw a traffic warden to the ground after he ticketed his illegally parked van. Picture: Coventry City Council / SWNS

Watch: Raging van driver attacks traffic warden

Councillors are being asked to approved the temporary appointment of Tony Reeves to replace outgoing chief executive Andrew Balchin.

Former chief exec of Bradford and Liverpool councils to take charge at Wakefield

Children will be off for a full six weeks this summer.

UK summer holidays: When do they start and how long are they?

Wakefield Council needs to make the purchases to prevent the £24m Town Deal programme from stalling.

Property deals to allow for major regeneration of Castleford

A builder in Ashton-under-Lyne built a house around a lamppost rather than wait for it to be moved. It will be moved at a later date

House is built around a lamppost

The two motions will be considered at a full council meeting at 2pm on Wednesday.

Council to hold Gaza ceasefire debate

Shops at the bottom of Bread Street have been earmarked for demolition to make way for the Cathedral Square project in Wakefield city centre. (Google image from 2019)

Council to buy premises to hit deadline for £6.5m Cathedral Square project

During construction work, tanks and a drainage area which serve the leisure centre and swimming pool were discovered underground.

Developer accused of 'virtually blackmailing' council

Coun Michael Graham and Coun Melanie Jones.

South Hiendley Park's £28K play area improvements complete

Cllr Glynis Campbell Sinclair was spotted cleaning her windows while on camera during a meeting of Highland Council's Inverness Area Committee Picture: Highland Council / SWNS

Councillor cleans her home's windows during live-streamed meeting

The fund is for working aged residents who are most in need with the high cost of living.

Council tax support for Wakefield households on lowest incomes to continue