A county council is pressing the Government for more money to meet the costs of repairing roads damaged by the severe weather. The move by Northamptonshire Council came as the Government warned that further steps will have to be taken to conserve salt supplies because of the ongoing wintry condidions and with the central committee controlling supplies set to meet again this morning.
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More than 70 local authorities are to share an extra 122.6 million pounds for council house building in an effective doubling of Government funding for new homes. The Housing Minister, John Healey, said the councils would match this second round grant and that the total public investment in the programme would now be over 500 million pounds.
By James McCormick with Jonathan Clifton, Alice Sachrajda, Myriam Cherti and Eleanor McDowell.
We have known for some time that the population of the United Kingdom is getting older and that the number of people aged over 75 (sometimes referred to as the ‘older old’) is growing particularly quickly. Encouragingly, healthy life expectancy – the number of years lived without illness or disability – is improving on average.
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