Rochdale Council has unveiled five new carton recycling banks this week - to help residents recycle food and drink cartons.
Chesterfield MP Paul Holmes is urging female war veterans to have their efforts recognised by applying for a new badge of recognition.
New generation anti-depressants have little clinical benefit for most patients, research suggests. A University of Hull team concluded the drugs actively help only a small group of the most severely depressed.
Deaf and speech-impaired people are to be able to text the emergency services for help under a new initiative.
London's Liberal Democrat MEP Baroness Sarah Ludford has written to the Home Secretary to request her to urgently review the case of Medhi Kazemi, an gay Iranian citizen who faces possible execution by stoning if he returns to Iran.
Chelmsford Environment Partnership (CEP) is to close after 10 years but held its last public meeting about the Borough council's "action plan" to reduce pollution around the Army & Navy roundabout. Comments on the action plan have to be in by 29th February. See www.chelmsford.gov.uk/airquality
