Press Releases

UK welcomes UN report on ISIL atrocities in Syria

Foreign Office Minister, Tobias Ellwood, welcomes UN report detailing ISIL’s brutality in Syria and underlines the need for those responsible to be held to account.

UK welcomes Iraq/Kurdistan Regional Government budget deal

FCO Minister Tobias Ellwood welcomes new budget deal as first step towards negotiating a solution to the issue of federal budget allocations

Traffic bulletin: Lanes on anti-clockwise M25 in Surrey to re-open this evening

Motorists are being advised that three lanes on the anti-clockwise M25 between junctions 10 (near Wisley) and 9 (near Leatherhead) will remain closed until this evening (14 November) as we work to investigate the cause of, and to repair a defect in the road surface.

Highways Agency is geared up for winter

Autumn may have been mild so far but Highways Agency teams across the North West are ready and prepared for when winter bites.

Major £15.5 million school rebuild gets underway in Newark

Rebuild is part of the government’s £2.4 billion Priority School Building Programme (PSBP).

£3.4 million boost for communities to save a local building or asset

Five community buildings to receive government boost to help them reopen to the public or transform their existing use.

Work starts on new Cheshire dual carriageway

Drivers in Cheshire are set to benefit from a major road improvement that gets underway today (14 November) to upgrade a five mile section of the A556 to dual carriageway.

£30 million road improvements for Cumbria

Drivers in Cumbria are to benefit from at least £30 million worth of road improvements over the next few years with some significant improvements to the county’s motorways and major A road network over the next few months.

Repairs underway to tackle M58 ‘bump’

A £1.2 million project to resurface a section of the M58 near Up Holland in West Lancashire will get underway this week.

The National Commemoration of the Centenary of the Gallipoli and ANZAC Campaigns

Prime Minister announces plans to mark the Centenary of the Gallipoli Campaign.