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England is facing its driest spring in 60 years

Environment Agency urges water companies to 'do more'
The Environment Agency has urged water companies to do more to safeguard water supplies after the driest start to spring in 69 years.

Leeds city centre. PIC: Tony Johnson

The Labour Government needs to back big cities to see off Reform UK wave - Andre...

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves are being urged to improve trade with the EU. Picture: Kirsty Wigglesworth/PA Wire

Food and drink firms 'need Government to improve EU trading relations'

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to attend Prime Minister's Questions at the Houses of Parliament. PIC: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Hospices will be hurt by rise in National Insurance - Daxa Patel

British Steel has announced plans to shut down its blast furnaces in Scunthorpe and replace them with Electric Arc Furnaces there, and at Teesside.

Heathrow investment expected to secure thousands of British Steel jobs

‘Healthy Hearts’ offering expert advice to tackle the UK’s cardiovascular health crisis

New publication addresses national crisis in quest for ‘Healthy Hearts’

An Accident and Emergency sign. PIC: Chris Radburn/PA Wire

Warning signs that meeting ambitious NHS targets won’t be easy

Junior doctors protest opposite Downing Street, London, during their dispute over pay. PIC: Jordan Pettitt/PA Wire

Junior doctors pay deal to be welcomed

Asset disposal specialist BPI has said it has begun to see a steep rise in the number of “zombie companies” going out of business, as firms kept afloat by Government help during the pandemic are forced to shut down. Photo: PA/ David Davies.

‘Zombie companies’ now starting to go under, says Yorkshire asset disposal firm

Post Office minister Kevin Hollinrake speaking during an urgent question on the Post Office Horizon scandal in the House of Commons.

Ministers press ahead with quashing Post Office convictions

A government investigation into the governance of Teesworks on the former Redcar steelworks site has been published.

Teesworks: Timeline of events at the former Redcar steelworks

People affected by the loan charge protested outside Parliament before the debate in the House of Commons. DUP MP Sammy Wilson said there are “frightening parallels” between the loan charge and the Horizon IT scandal, (Photo Loan Charge Action Group)

There are parallels between loan charge and Post Office scandal, MPs say

Yorkshire MP Sir David Davis was among those calling for a substantial response to make things right for convicted Post Office staff.

Government set for tough response on Horizon scandal following ITV drama

Rishi Sunak's Network North plans are full of old plans which were shelved by the Government, MPs have been told. Photo credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Government mocked as £235m of 'Network North' money is being spent in London

Picture James Hardisty.
Pictured A view across the lush farmland, near Grassington, North Yorkshire. A Call for Evidence to explore the proposal for a Tenant Farming Commissioner and encourage more collaborative tenant-landlord and advisor relationships has been launched by the government.

Government seeking evidence over rights for tenant farmers

Oakworth Station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

Keighley & Worth Valley Railway among Yorkshire winners of Levelling Up money

Drax Power Station near Selby, North Yorkshire.

Government faces legal challenge over support for biomass projects such as Drax

Martin Callanan

Huge new carbon capture plant on Humberside 'essential' to net zero by 2050

Sajid Javid, the former health secretary, called for a royal commission into the NHS, describing it as “frozen in time”.

Ministers urged to take the politics out of the NHS

Rishi Sunak and Suella Braverman’s plan to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda has been ruled unlawful by the UK’s Court of Appeal. Credit: Tom Pilgrim/PA Wire

Government to appeal court ruling on unlawful Rwanda policy

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak taking part in media interviews during the European Political Community (EPC) Summit at Mimi Castle in Bulboaca near Chisinau, Moldova. The semiannual summit was created last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the aim of bringing together a broader set of European leaders beyond the 27 members of the European Union. Picture date: Thursday June 1, 2023. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS Europe. Photo credit should read: Carl Court/PA Wire

Government goes to court to avoid handing over ministerial Covid messages
The Government is set to go to the High Court as it takes the fight to the official coronavirus inquiry over access to ministers private messages during the pandemic, amid fears that the Prime Minister could be opened up to new scrutiny.
Mason Boycott-Owen

TEESSIDE, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 28: A general view along the River Tees as the official announcement was made today that Teesside will become a Freeport on October 28, 2021 in Teesside, England.

Investigation into Teesworks project launched by Government

Huge changes are coming to WhatsApp messenger app

WhatsApp now allows users to hide intimate chats - how it works

Rishi Sunak has declared his wife’s shares in a childcare agency set to benefit from budget amid investigation

Rishi Sunak declares wife’s shares in firm amid investigation

ABINGDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 30: Grant Shapps, Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, is shown robotics by an apprentice during a visit to the UK Atomic Energy Authority, Culham Science Centre, on on March 30, 2023 in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, for a discussion on energy security and net zero. (Photo by Jacob King - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Drax warned it will not get preferential treatment after project rejected

Renewable energy wind farms are a contested issue in Scotland

Ditch onshore wind ban to allow families money off bills, Government urged

A cake split in half, illustrating the concept of divorce. PIC: PA Photo/thinkstockphotos.

Time to modernise the law around divorce in England - Mark Heppinstall

It comes after Rishi Sunak and Michael Gove (pictured) were criticised by Andy Street, the Conservative mayor of the West Midlands, who said that the “begging culture” of competitive bidding for schemes such as the Levelling Up Fund must end.

Mayors set for departmental-style deals in spending review, Government reveals

Neil Warnock.

Warnock: EFL clubs need fairer share & regulator must take heed of Bury collapse

The Yorkshire Post has been told that there are "question marks" over Rishi Suank's commitment to devolving new fiscal powers to mayors

Mayors set for new enhanced powers in Manchester and West Midlands

New TUC general secretary Paul Nowak.

Government accused of sabotaging efforts to stop strikes by union boss

File photo dated 21/06/17 of Baroness Michelle Mone ahead of the State Opening of Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II, in the House of Lords. Tory peer Baroness Mone, who is at the centre of controversy over her alleged links to a firm awarded a PPE contract, will take a leave of absence from the House of Lords with immediate effect, the PA news agency understands. Issue date: Tuesday December 6, 2022. PA Photo. See PA story POLITICS PPE. Photo credit should read: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

Labour forces Government to reveal PPE contracts
The Government is set to release PPE contract documents after Labour forced a vote in the House of Commons last night.
Mason Boycott-Owen

Business rate valuations are being reassessed.

Business rates revaluation to hit Yorkshire firms harder than London's

The money was promised in April and will be used to support the region’s Bus Service Improvement Plan.

£70m to improve bus services and lower fares expected 'imminently'

A group of people, believed to be refugees, are rescued off the coast of Folkestone by a Border Force vessel

Government urged to stop putting asylum seeking children in hotels

The plans were initially announced by Michael Gove in January before his sacking earlier this year

Plans for 20 regeneration projects announced under Gove have been scrapped

Conservative whips initially stated the vote was being treated as a “confidence motion” in Liz Truss's Government

Liz Truss avoids major rebellion on fracking vote

Jeremy Hunt leaves 10 Downing Street in London after he was appointed Chancellor of the Exchequer following the resignation of Kwasi Kwarteng. Picture date: Friday October 14, 2022.

'Off-payroll will continue to cause significant harm to the self-employed'

Liz Truss today sacked chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng. Photo: Getty

Fracking site renamed ‘Liz Truss Career Memorial’ on Google Maps

File photo dated 24/02/14 of an instillation in the North Sea: Andy Buchanan/PA Wire

Government defends exploring new gasfields off Yorkshire

A handout photograph released by the UK Parliament shows Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Kwasi Kwarteng unveiling an anti-inflation budget plan at the House of Commons in London on September 23, 2022. - The UK's new government is unveiling multi-billion-pound measures aimed at supporting households and businesses hit by the highest inflation in decades. (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - NO USE FOR ENTERTAINMENT, SATIRICAL, ADVERTISING PURPOSES - MANDATORY CREDIT " AFP PHOTO / Jessica Taylor /UK Parliament" (Photo by JESSICA TAYLOR/UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Images)

The Government has been accused of draining money out of Yorkshire.

An artist's impression of what the new White Rose Station might look like.

All the Yorkshire transport projects to be 'accelerated' in growth plan

Britain's Education Secretary Kit Malthouse arrives at 10 Downing Street in central London on September 7, 2022, ahead of a meeting of the Government's newly appointed Cabinet. - Britain's newly appointed Prime Minister Liz Truss unveiled her new top team as she formally took over from Boris Johnson, with no place for white men in any of the three senior-most cabinet posts for the first time ever. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Plans for new grammar schools are being drawn up, Education Secretary confirms

A pupil undertaking an exam. Picture by PA Archive/PA Images

Department for Education reveals plans for schools to close for Queen’s funeral

On the final day of The Great Yorkshire Show last week, the farming minister Victoria Prentis attended to launch officially a review into the pig sector in the hope that farmers, most of whom operate as small and independent businesses, can get a better deal. She is pictured with Charles Mills, show director.

Government intervenes to help struggling pig farmers get a better deal

Lisa Nandy has questioned the legitimacy of the Government's levelling up legislation.

Levelling up law 'not worth paper it is written on' due to clause, warns Nandy

Major announcement made on NHS prescription charges in England

Imran Ahmad Khan became the MP for Wakefield at the 2019 General Election

Government urged to call Wakefield election so locals 'can get back their voice'

The All-Party Parliamentary Loan Charge & Taxpayer Fairness Group (APPG) has written to Lucy Frazer, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, outlining their concerns about the “draconian” loan charge and calling for an open meeting where officials can be questioned about the policy.

People facing loan charge have expressed suicidal thoughts, MPs tell Government

First News: A beary good idea!

The Cuadrilla fracking site at Preston New Road in Blackpool Lancashire.

Review commissioned into latest science on fracking as energy debate intensifies

The Majestic, the home of Channel 4 in Leeds city centre (Photo: James Hardisty)

Government to go ahead with Channel 4 sale, broadcaster announces

Concerns have been raised about the current lack of electric car charging points across the country

Government making 'slow progress' on net zero and levelling up goals

Government has overseen 'years of decline' in NHS targets, MPs say

Michael Gove's Levelling Up White Paper did not deliver for the rural economy, it has been claimed.

Levelling Up White Paper failed to deliver for countryside, claims CLA president

Prime Minister Boris Johnson disembarks a plane as he meets military personnel at RAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire to thank them for their ongoing work facilitating military support to Ukraine (Photo: PA Wire/Ben Birchall)

Boris Johnson fast-tracks plans to tackle Russian ‘dirty money’ in UK

Holly Fox (right) receives a Moderna Omicron COVID-19 booster vaccine in a clinical study at St George's, University of London, (PA)

Government faces resistance as Boris Johnson announces 'Living with Covid' plan

The British Chambers of Commerce survey of more than 1,000 businesses has highlighted a host of issues with the UK’s trade deal with Europe.

Seven out of 10 said the TCA was not enabling their business to grow

A farmer slowly makes his way back and forth cutting the grass in a field near Marrick, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire.

Levelling up: Yorkshire's countryside should not be seen as 'rural museum'

An artist's impression of what the mass transit scheme in West Yorkshire could look like

Another £200m requested for long-awaited mass transit scheme in West Yorkshire

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