Oxfordshire's councils are voting through rival plans for local government reorganisation. The government aims to make a decision by next summer, with elections to the new council, or possibly ...

Just one council may run services in a county in the west of England in a bid to simplify local government and cut costs. Councillors in Gloucestershire have been working on plans to merge the ...

The deadline has passed for councils to submit their plans for a shake-up of local government, but in some areas the picture is clearer than other. It follows a government drive to simplify council ...

MPs are calling called for a five-unitary authority model, which would see five new authorities created, as part of government plans to reorganise Hampshire councils.