Politics

Just when you thought one election was over, another one is pencilled in for next week.

The billions of pounds due to be spent on High Speed 2 could be better spent elsewhere to help improve Britain’s transport network, a new publication has found.

Bassetlaw District Council has welcomed a new councillor who is one of the youngest to be elected in the country at just 18-years-old.

With polls now closed on the council elections for Bassetlaw District Council, we are live at the count in North Notts Arena in Worksop.

A Conservative local election candidate who has been expelled from the party over a series of social media posts has denied he is ‘racist, homophobic and Islamophobic’.

Last week, alongside 35 fellow MPs, I wrote to the Chancellor regarding the surplus sharing arrangements for the Mineworkers’ Pension Scheme (MPS), writes Sir Kevin Barron MP.

Jeremy Corbyn pledges £1.3bn per year to reverse cuts and to fund new bus services if Labour are elected, during a visit to Hucknall.

This year it seems as though elections are like buses, writes Neil Taylor, chief executive at Bassetlaw Council.

A plan which could see gas extracted from the ground for the next 25 years has been approved.

A council tenant has been banned from his flat for three months following years of disruptive behaviour and suspected drug dealing.

I am very proud that Nottinghamshire’s Local Offer for Care Leavers, which is now available to all care leavers up to the age of 25, has been launched and will provide the advice, support and guidance to help give them the best start into adulthood, writes Coun Philip Owen, chairman of children and young people’s committee at Nottinghamshire County Council.

Some years ago Arriva Trains won a contract to provide non-emergency ambulances for the East Midlands, writes John Mann MP.

An energy company is hoping to extract gas left behind from coal mining, in a project which could last 25 years.

Residents across Nottinghamshire are being urged to sign up to vote in next month’s local election.

The Department for Transport has approved funding for a new lift to improve disabled access at Retford station.