Left-wing councils were waiting for a Labour government to turn the money back on, but help isn’t coming. So what now?

Residents tell of anger over government's plans to flood villages to build reservoir to increase water for the canal ...

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Zahra Ziad met her in-laws for the first time when she moved in with them. Ten days after the former president of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, was ousted in December last year, she crossed from Turkey ...

Nigel Farage’s party now has the resources and momentum to capitalise on mass disillusionment with both major parties ...