Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Getty Images Councillors have put forward the idea of a Highland control area A Highland-wide control zone to limit Airbnb-style lets has been suggested as a way of tackling a shortage of homes across the region. Councillors proposing the move said 7,011 short-term let licences had been...
People are being asked to have their say on proposed new taxi fares across Exeter. A consultation is taking place and members of the public can make comments right up until 13 July. Exeter City Council is responsible for setting fares in the city and this follows a request from both Exeter Hackney Carriage Associations. ...
AFP via Getty Images Trump is pushing his party to back his “big, beautiful bill” Tucked deep in Donald Trump’s sprawling “One, Big, Beautiful Bill Act” is a clause that could quietly take billions from money sent abroad. It proposes a 3.5% tax on remittances sent abroad by foreign workers, including green card holders and...
Jonathan Morris BBC News, South West PA Media The council is looking after 848 children with just 208 fostering families Devon County Council is to vote on a new support package for foster carers amid a growing shortage of families. The proposals, due to be discussed on 23 May, include council tax relief, increased allowances,...
The government’s preferred choice as chair of English football’s new independent regulator contributed money to the leadership campaigns of Sir Keir Starmer and Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy. David Kogan told MPs on the Culture, Media and Sport Committee that he was being “utterly transparent” by declaring donations which “hadn’t been discovered by the press”. The...
Cyclists who kill pedestrians by acting dangerously on the road could face life imprisonment under a proposed change to the law. Currently, cycling offenders can be imprisoned for no more than two years under an 1861 law originally intended for drivers of horse-drawn carriages. A government amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill – which...
A senior Palestinian official familiar with Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations has told the BBC that Qatari and Egyptian mediators have proposed a new formula to end the war in Gaza. According to the official, it envisages a truce lasting between five and seven years, the release of all Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held...
Kelly Smith, a 57-year-old New York City resident, is part of the Nonviolent Medicaid Army (NVMA), a growing national movement of poor people who are organizing to stop proposed cuts to Medicaid and promote health care as a human right. “The need for health care unites us all,” Smith told Truthout. “Right now, I’m terrified...
On the back of years of Tory austerity, the education sector is preparing for the “worst financial situation for a generation” after chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Spring Statement on 26 March. Headteachers have already warned that schools face “death by a thousand cuts” partly because the proposed pay increase for teachers is unfunded and the Labour...
This story was originally published by ProPublica. ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A behind-the-scenes legal effort to force Congress to call a convention to amend the Constitution could end up helping President Donald Trump in his push...