Local government experts say councils made all the "easy cuts" years ago and still face shortfalls.

Peterborough City Council almost cancelled Christmas this year. Funding its festive lights switch-on needed business ...

A three-year-old child is fighting for life after being hit by a car on a major arterial in Melbourne’s south-east.Emergency ...

Desmond Gibbons, who represented a Gedling Borough Council ward in Nottinghamshire, had accessed and created images of child ...

Council leader Eamonn O'Brien explains why the local authority allocates so much of its money from council tax to children's services in his ...

The council took steps to provide the computers after local schools reported that some children were struggling to get online ...

A Derbyshire resident compared a new children’s home to Auschwitz ahead of its approval this week. An objection letter filed ...

If child aged 5 is in a private school nursery their whole class will face 20% tax, says HMRC, overturning Treasury exemption ...

Parents serve as a role model for children, particularly when it comes to financial literacy, says Julie Jason.

Most of the residents from the worst-affected villages are still living elsewhere. And the few who have dared to come back ...

Here’s how to help the family of 5-year-old Aletha, who was mauled in a dog attack in the backyard of her Independence home.

In late August, when 49-year-old Farris Child collapsed at his son’s track meet, the two teens who started CPR on him were scared to death. They had taken a CPR class the year before in school but ...