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Students could face competition for university places amid capacity pressures

Students seeking places at the most selective universities could face tougher competition for places on some courses this summer due to pressures on infrastructure, a university sector chief has suggested. Professor Sir Steve West, president of ...

31 Jul 2023 at 00:01

£10,000 of taxpayers’ money spent on image of mayor and dog on bus – report

A metro mayor spent £10,000 of taxpayers’ money covering a double decker bus with three massive pictures of himself with his dog, a report has revealed. Former Labour MP Dan Norris, the elected mayor for the West of England Combined Authority, ...

24 Nov 2023 at 15:51

Scotland

Driverless bus service axed due to low passenger numbers

The UK’s first autonomous bus service is being cancelled because of a lack of passengers. Stagecoach has run a fleet of self-driving buses on a 14-mile route between Fife and Edinburgh since the launch of the CAVForth project in May last year....

17 Dec 2024 at 14:20

Reform UK echoes Trump with ‘make Britain great again’ aired at election launch

Reform UK is “on the side of the worker”, Nigel Farage claimed as he launched the party’s local election campaign amid calls to “make Britain great again”. Mr Farage said he wanted to create a British form of Doge, the Department of ...

28 Mar 2025 at 23:31

Department for Education stifling efforts to boost skills, warns Andy Burnham

Resistance within the Department for Education (DfE) to devolving powers to regional mayors is stifling efforts to boost skills and risks becoming an “anti-growth policy”, Andy Burnham has said. The mayor of Greater Manchester told ...

29 Apr 2025 at 17:42

Local and mayoral elections: Key results so far

Reform has won its first-ever regional mayor in England while Labour managed to hold on to a hat-trick of mayors across the country, in the first results from this year’s local elections. Only one council, Northumberland, has so ...

02 May 2025 at 08:13

North-west England in drought due to low water levels in reservoirs and rivers

The north west of England is now in drought due to low water levels in reservoirs and rivers following one of the driest springs on record. The Environment Agency (EA) said Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire, and ...

29 May 2025 at 16:10

Football

Jude Bellingham’s ‘will to win’ is example to England team-mates – Morgan Rogers

Morgan Rogers has praised close friend Jude Bellingham, saying his fiery nature is an example to his England team-mates. Boss Thomas Tuchel was forced to apologise to Bellingham after saying his mother found the ...

03 Sept 2025 at 20:20

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