Amy Rees, who is currently director general at the Ministry of Justice, will take over from interim chief executive Eamonn Boylan in September.

The Greater Manchester Mayor suggested compulsory purchase powers could be used if negotiations over land needed for Manchester United’s £2bn new stadium fail but added that reports about a stand-off ...

Set to be published later this year, the masterplan will make the case for the building of a nuclear, solar, or wind energy generation facility on 400 acres near Sellafield in Moorside.

A series of design amendments has delayed the Lancashire authority’s Rawtenstall South Gyratory project by more than a year.