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Seven new neighbourhoods with shared green spaces and vibrant high streets have been promised by the government - here's where they are planning to put them.

The Government has named and shamed companies for illegally underpaying workers, including Bupa, Costa, Hovis and Norwich City Football Club.

Former Conservative MP Crispin Blunt has been charged with four drug offences.

The former deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, has said "the change that people wanted so desperately, needs to be seen" in what some are seeing as a challenge to the Labour leadership.

The estimated cost of bringing pothole-plagued local roads in England and Wales up to scratch has risen to a record £18.6 billion, according to a new report, which branded the situation "a national disgrace".

Esther Rantzen has made an emotional plea to the House of Lords over assisted dying bill.

More than 100 Labour MPs have written to the Prime Minister asking him to stop peers from purposefully blocking the passage of the assisted dying Bill.

A 2012 Olympics-style regeneration initiative will be launched in Oxford to help transform its shared region with Cambridge into Britain's answer to Silicon Valley, Rachel Reeves will reveal.

The UK must send ships to help the US secure a key oil shipping route out of the Middle East, Donald Trump has said.

Phil Woolas, a Labour former minister and MP, has died at the age of 66, his family and close friends have announced.