A new report has found wide variances of how police forces are coping with the impact of budget cuts, with some forces struggling under financial restraints.
Police forces are taking up to 30% longer than two years ago to respond to emergency 999 calls in some parts of the country with forces blaming the impact on deep spending cuts
A year after David Cameron announced 300 government-owned properties would be made available to small businesses, not a single property is being rented out.
By the time British forces pull out of Afghanistan in 2014 almost every member of the army will have been deployed either there, or in Iraq. But for those soldiers coming home, the stress may be far from over.
The British financial services industry spent more than £92m last year lobbying politicians and regulators in an ‘economic war of attrition’ that has secured a string of policy victories.