It seems the need for taxing us for energy use has won the argument and the government has embarked on a programme of new nuclear power stations. These will not come into use for 15 years and by then it will be too late.
The penny-pinching Labour Government has pulled the plug on Newcastle's popular non-emergency 101 phone number.
Health bosses are refusing to guarantee there will be a new surgery in Lemington.
New Leader of the Liberal Democrats, Nick Clegg MP has promised to give a voice to the people of Hinckley & Bosworth who feel ignored by politicians.
The public has just one week left in which to give its views on proposed changes to Kent Fire and Rescue Service.
Forty years after the start of the nuclear programme in England, we are none the wiser as to what to do with nuclear waste, not just for the next few years, but for the next 40,000 years.