Labour’s Mary Kelly Foy said planning decisions on these sites ‘have frequently been underpinned by prejudice’.

The Commons Culture, Media and Sport Committee chairwoman warned that “live music’s in crisis, the Government needs to be listening” as she proposed a new clause to the Planning and Infrastructure ...

Matthew Pennycook dismissed anxiety from campaigners that Planning and Infrastructure Bill could lead to a weakening of environmental law.

Emergency services are at the scene on the A299 Ramsgate Tunnel following the collision. The closure was reported at around 8.30pm and Kent County Council Highways says the road is likely to be closed ...

Failures of a senior doctor in his care of a teenager who died days later from sepsis were “particularly grave” and ...

Fresh plans have been unveiled for a major development scheme, five months after a shock council decision blocked previous proposals.

Police have confirmed that a body found over the weekend is that of a Colombian woman who disappeared after leaving her east London home. Yajaira Castro Mendez, 46, was reported missing to the ...

Kent author Frederick Forsyth has died at the age of 86, after a brief illness. The best-selling writer, who was born in Ashford and penned The Day Of The Jackal, was surrounded by his family as he ...

A 14-year-old boy who was fatally stabbed in Manchester has been named by police as Ibrahima Seck, with his family paying tribute to him as “funny, caring and hardworking”. Ibrahima was found with ...

Labour backbenchers have called for a Government U-turn on planned disability benefit cuts, after Chancellor Rachel Reeves restored winter fuel payments to a majority of pensioners. Ms Reeves’ £1.25 ...

A bus driver who killed a nine-year-old girl riding her bike on the pavement having fallen asleep at the wheel with drugs in ...