Regional authorities will have to compete with each other for funding for transport, skills and housing developments under plans to be unveiled by the Government today. The Coalition is planning to pool billions of pounds of regional spending into a single fund in a bid to decentralise public spending and boost economic growth outside London. […]

The Care Quality Commission has warned that people with dementia are being put at risk because the health and social care system is struggling to cope. The CQC said that inspections of thousands of care homes in England revealed that failings in care were to blame for cases of severe malnutrition, fractures and many other […]

The National Audit Office has claimed that ministers must find 250,000 new school places by 2014 to accommodate a surge in the birth rate. The biggest rise since the baby boom after the second world war means that although the Department for Education has created more than 80,000 places over the past two years, a […]

Ofsted have ruled that three of the first seven free schools championed by Michael Gove are “not good” schools. Each school now faces another full-scale inspection within the next two years. Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: “It is dreadful therefore that schools which the Prime Minister and the Education […]

Campaigners have warned that local planning decisions on housing projects in protected areas of the countryside are being overturned by government inspectors using new development laws. Despite promises by ministers to hand more control to communities, campaigners say that decisions by local councils to turn down developments are being routinely overridden by the centralised Planning […]

The new benefit rates start on 1st April. After that date, if you live in ‘social housing’, and you have one or more spare bedrooms, you may find your Housing Benefit cut. From that date too, if you are of working age, you will find your Council Tax benefit is being cut too – which […]

“The Double yellow lines have been installed near Ingol Social Club and the police have followed up on several drivers who have ignored them – all from outside Ingol! There are now notices inside the club drawing attention to the no parking area with the result that the number of offenders has rapidly decreased. If you see someone parked on the […]

Aldwick East was a rock solid Tory seat on Arun District Council in Sussex and which was won from them in a by election on Thursday night.  To put the result in perspective, a Conservative majority of nearly 1,000 was overturned, with Liberal Democrats up from 16% to 34%. Congratulations to our successful candidate, Paul Wells, and […]

The Ingol Village Golf Club, which closed in 2010, is to reopen as an eighteen hole course, and the new operators have promised to carry out drainage works and other course improvements. “The Ingol Councillors campaigned very hard alongside the Ingol Golf Village Residents’ Association to keep it as a golf course, and see off the threat from Northern Trust to build […]