Cheaper driving lessons along with a free provisional license, theory and driving test are being offered to residents in Grangetown as a step towards work – provided they volunteer to help clean up their local environment.

A new bike shed built at a Huyton primary school is hoped to encourage youngsters to improve their health and fitness by cycling to school.

Work is about to begin on a £2 million development to provide much needed affordable homes for people with a local connection to Marlborough in the South Hams.

The development of a groundbreaking homeless scheme planned for Snow Hill in Birmingham city centre has moved one step closer as a previous customer kick-started work on site.