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While water bills are rocketing by up to 45% across the UK, people living on Godstone High Street were required to evacuate as the cavernous sinkhole engulfed a 20m section of the road, sparking fears of potential explosions from exposed cables.

The West Ham United board has shown little appetite for ending its attack on reduced-price tickets for the young, pensioners, and disabled people. The campaign to reinstate concessions, led by fan group Hammers United, is still going strong.

Judging from placards and banners, a factor motivating marchers to turn out was the recent pronouncement by Donald Trump that Gazans should be forcibly removed from their homeland to make way for a “Riviera”

Labour will inflict more pain on the borough’s employees and residents, rather than build a campaign involving other councils, unions, and residents to fight for cash for local authorities?

Councils need to campaign alongside trade unions, service users, community groups, community campaigners, voluntary sector, and other political parties, and combine with other councils in the same boat for the necessary funds to protect services.

Enfield has the highest youth knife crime in London. Last summer, a community meeting identified the need for places where young people can hang out safely. But Enfield Labour council is cutting not increasing them.

Solace has announced that one third of its domestic violence advisors are due to be made redundant, and up to half of the whole team could face losing their jobs, due to cuts made by charity bosses.

What should have been a “normal flat fire”, according to Peter Apps, a journalist at Inside Housing, culminated in a deadly tragedy, killing 72 people, 18 of whom were children.

Thousands of protesters gathered near Picadilly in central London on 1 February to protest against a pro-Tommy Robinson demonstration taking place. Members of the Socialist Party took part in this counter-demonstration

Bats or great crested newts? “Neither”, Chancellor Rachel Reeves told The Times, “because I want growth”.