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Wandsworth Council says bikes have blocked busy streets around rail stations and Tube stations

The European Commission called on Wednesday for Romanian, Bulgarian and Croatian citizens to be able to travel freely without passports across Europe, which would expand the so-called Schengen area with no border checks to 29 countries.

Aled Powell, from Wrexham in Wales, has denied his two daughters swimming lessons for the past three years despite their pleas to learn because they cannot be taught in Welsh

Aled Powell has been waiting three years for swimming lessons in Welsh

Councillors also discussed a full traffic ban on Parliament Street

The President of the Yemeni Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Rashad al-Alimi, warned that the Houthi terrorist attacks on oil export ports and vital economic structures would undermine peace efforts, stressing that the legitimate government reserves the right to respond to these attacks. Alimi and council member Faraj al-Bahssani met with…

The Labour-run council says it needs expertise it does not have in-house

East Lothian Council planners said that even though the couple own the land at the side of their house it had been designated as 'open space' and building on it breached planning rules ordering them to take the summerhouse and fence down

Los Angeles has nearly 4 million people. You might think the 15-member City Council, with each council member representing around 260,000 people, is normal for a big city.