Currently, the county is run via a two-tier local authority system, with Warwickshire County Council as the upper tier.

North Hertfordshire could be “saddled” with a “bankrupt” council that would be “destined to fail” if the four-model option ...

Labour-run Stevenage Borough Council has backed plans for the area to join North Herts and Welwyn Hatfield as part of a new Central ...

A joint plan to establish East Lancashire as a single unitary authority, combining Burnley, Pendle, and Rossendale, has been ...

A proposal for five unitary authorities being created across Lancashire has been submitted to the government for ...

For several decades now, the United States has taken the position that communications and documents exchanged in Superfund matters between government lawyers representing the US EPA and government ...

Two Kent councils have given their backing to a four-unitary model for Kent and Medway. The plans would involve some changes ...

St Albans City & District Council has formally backed plans to divide Hertfordshire into two new unitary authorities.

In this week’s Friday Politics column, Conservative councillor Richard Coates argues that any local government reorganisation ...

The Unitary Patent system in Europe has been a long time coming. Started in December 2012 by regulations approved by the European Parliament, it will finally apply with the entry into force of the ...