Local authorities are not doing enough to combat the growing problem of litter and fly-tipping according to the Campaign to Protect Rural England. It is launching a drive today for tougher action and lobbying for a new law for cash deposits on bottles. The campaign is being launched just days after councils called for legal loopholes to be closed to give them more enforcement powers.

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The planned All-Wales Convention, which will lead the debate on whether the Welsh Assembly should have full law making powers, has moved a step nearer. The Assembly’s First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, and Deputy First Minister Ieuan Wyn Jones have welcomed the handing over of the report from the Establishing Committee for the Convention.

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A survey of attitudes to child poverty by the Child Poverty Unit, published by the Department for Work and Pensions, suggests that a significant step-change is required if the majority of the public is to be aware of the Government’s goals.

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