Politics

Jonathan Ash-Edwards said: “I am concerned that the weakening of local accountability is deliberate and signals a centralised approach to policing.”

Modelling suggests a 13.7% reduction for Essex - at a time when demands on the service have increased 17% over the past five years.

“The status quo isn’t tackling the climate crisis, and it’s failing those trapped in temporary accommodation and the private rented sector.”

The council is warning that the financial outlook for the county and for local authorities in general is “highly uncertain”.

Cllr George Williams urged Mr Dean to vote for his constituency’s wildlife when MPs consider amendments to the Planning and Infrastructure Bill.

PAHT chief operating officer: “We’re beginning to see positive progress against the cancer standards, although we recognise there’s still more to do.”

Youngsters aged 13-18 can get involved in a new initiative in Uttlesford to help them shape the future of their area

Since 2021, the authority has invited applications from clubs and other community groups for three tranches of cash totalling more than £780,000.

The Bishop’s Stortford law firm told Hertford and Stortford MP Josh Dean that couples who want to separate and divorce face unacceptable delays.

The first phase of engagement will help shape a long-term plan to make travel across the county safer, more accessible and more sustainable.

Reform UK trailed in last when residents of Saffron Walden’s Shire ward went to the polls to elect a new town councillor.

Hertfordshire’s 11 councils have agreed a draft joint submission to the Government that proposes replacing them with one of three options.

Formal approach made seeking establishment of mayoral strategic authority alongside new unitary authorities, with mayoral election in May 2028.

The Government is making changes for the first time in a decade based on work over the past year by a panel of experts led by Professor Becky Francis.

Two primary schools in MP Chris Hinchliff’s North East Herts constituency face the axe because of falling rolls.

“We must address the sense of powerlessness driving people to Farage. Labour values are about redistributing power to the majority.”

Herts County Council chairman Laurence Brass vows to continue amid “vicious” campaign during which his family has received “the most terrible abuse”.

WhtasApp messages between Broxbourne’s Cllr Steve Wortley and Reform official were circulated in an email to the borough council’s Conservative group.

Hertford & Stortford MP on Thorn Grove’s new library, Bishop’s Stortford Means Business, Street Pastors, Breathe Easy Group and a ministerial meeting

Residents and councillors want to gauge public support for new pedestrian crossings and a reconfigured junction to make South Road safer.