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Twenty-two councils ask for election delays

16 Jan 2026
More than twenty English councils have requested permission to delay their local elections scheduled for May, affecting over 2.5 million voters. The proposed postponements are linked to the government’s wide-ranging reorganisation of local government, which will…

PM: 'X is acting to ensure full compliance with UK law'

16 Jan 2026
Keir Starmer has said that Elon Musk’s social media platform X is acting to ensure compliance with UK law, following outrage over its AI tool, Grok, being used to generate non-consensual sexualised images. There was widespread…

Assisted dying debate faces delay, bishops ‘risk losing legitimacy’

16 Jan 2026
In an unexpected move, as the House of Lords was considering the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, a motion was introduced calling for additional time to scrutinise the proposals before the current parliamentary session…

Kent / Sussex: major incident declared, water supplier under investigation for shortages

16 Jan 2026
South East Water is under investigation by regulator Ofwat after repeated outages since November left tens of thousands of households and businesses across Kent and Sussex without drinking water. Some properties have endured up to six…