Nottingham Articles

This week’s Leeds council meeting heard from a deputation of Holbeck residents protesting at the decision by First, the city’s biggest bus company, to cut services to their inner-city suburb. This was a commercial decision made to a service that residents feel is...

In May 2010, the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats came together to form a coalition government, promising to erase the economic deficit in just one parliament, with ‘Plan B’ not an option. Over two years into their economic programme, the UK is again in recession...

Referendums this May provide the opportunity to transform England’s biggest cities. Anna Turley on the debate over elected mayors The idea of elected mayors for English cities has been a flame that has spluttered and flickered but never quite ignited. This May could...

  We all remember the current spending review. Osborne told us Britain was bankrupt, Gordon Brown had got it all wrong, and the only way to cut the deficit was to cut and cut fast. Capital investment was in the firing line and project after project was halted. We...