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Can Labour Fix England's Water Shortage Problem?
Can Labour Fix England's Water Shortage Problem?
Environment
England hasn’t built a new reservoir in more than 30 years but 10 are now promised – and even they may not be enough. Noah Vickers reports on the leaky plumbing – real and financial – draining the system
The Path to Net Zero: A special report to mark Net Zero Week 2025 Partner content
Environment
By Total Politics Impact
The Path to Net Zero: A special report to mark Net Zero Week 2025
Water Minister Emma Hardy: 'The Regulatory System Is Broken'
Environment
Water Minister Emma Hardy: "The Regulatory System Is Broken"
Troubled Waters – The Many Struggles Of The Canal And River Trust
Environment
Troubled Waters – The Many Struggles Of The Canal And River Trust
Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Environment
Labour Figures Grow Nervous About Net Zero After Reform Success
Labour MP Warns Planning Reforms Could Overwhelm Environment Regulator
Environment
Labour MP Warns Planning Reforms Could Overwhelm Environment Regulator
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Environment
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Opinion
Crate Britain: does Mummy pig deserve a prison break? Partner content
Environment
By Humane World for Animals UK
Crate Britain: does Mummy pig deserve a prison break?
Decarbonisation, growth, delivery? The Government’s recess report card Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
Decarbonisation, growth, delivery? The Government’s recess report card
The global treaty may lie in tatters, but the UK must continue to lead the fight against plastic pollution
Environment
By Rebecca Pow
The global treaty may lie in tatters, but the UK must continue to lead the fight against plastic pollution
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Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
Parliament's People Awards ##sash##
Parliament's People Awards
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Total Politics at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
Home Office Eyes More Restrictions On International Student Visas
Home Office Eyes More Restrictions On International Student Visas
Education
Darren Jones To Run No 10 Delivery As Keir Starmer Shakes Up His Top Team
Darren Jones To Run No 10 Delivery As Keir Starmer Shakes Up His Top Team
Political parties
Blue Labour Peer Urges Keir Starmer To Drop Plans For Islamophobia Definition
Blue Labour Peer Urges Keir Starmer To Drop Plans For Islamophobia Definition
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Water Minister Emma Hardy: 'The Regulatory System Is Broken'
Environment
Water Minister Emma Hardy: "The Regulatory System Is Broken"
With water now a top political issue in Britain, Sienna Rodgers talks to Defra minister Emma Hardy who says regulation of the industry is ‘broken’ – and warns companies, ‘there’s no room to hide’
Troubled Waters – The Many Struggles Of The Canal And River Trust
Environment
Troubled Waters – The Many Struggles Of The Canal And River Trust
Over a decade ago, the government decided to place many of England and Wales’ inland waterways in the hands of the Canal & River Trust. As it struggles with increasing financial pressure and a furious row with part of the boating community, has the experiment failed? Alan White investigates. Illustrations by Tracy Worrall
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Environment
Victoria Atkins: I’ve Cross-Examined Gun-Toting Drug Lords – Labour MPs Don't Worry Me
Sienna Rodgers talks to shadow environment secretary Victoria Atkins who aims her fire at ‘City Steve’, ‘showman’ Nigel Farage and the government’s ‘Marxist’ policy on compulsory purchase
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By Woodland Trust
Four UK trees need your votes in European Tree of the Year contest
An Estonian banknote, the Emperor Charlemagne and the Suffragette Movement; all have links to the finalists in the 2016 European Tree of the Year contest. People across the country are being urged to vote, which runs throughout February, with trees nominated from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland alongside 11 others from the European mainland.
'​National disgrace' to 'remarkable renaissance': how localism will revive our waterways Partner content
Environment
By Canal and Rivers Trust
'​National disgrace' to 'remarkable renaissance': how localism will revive our waterways
Canal & River Trust Chairman, Allan Leighton, says community engagement is key to maintaining the waterways of England and Wales. 
Partner content
Environment
By British Veterinary Association
BVA welcomes deadline extension to TB testing contracts in Devon & Cornwall

Last week BVA members in the South West raised concerns that the 14-day deadline for signing the new TB testing contracts did not provide veterinary businesses enough time to consider the contract changes. 
Calls for 200m new trees to protect UK against floods Partner content
Environment
By Confor
Calls for 200m new trees to protect UK against floods
MPs and peers are set to consider how planting trees could help to prevent flooding, as families across the UK continue to deal with the aftermath of the latest bout of extreme weather. 
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
E-coli risk management in focus at Processor Conference
Developing UK policy on shiga-toxin producing E-coli (STEC) will be in the spotlight at this years AHDB Beef Lamb Processor Conference.
Partner content
Environment
By University of Exeter
Climate change may have had a huge impact on ancient South American civilisations
Climate change may have brought huge disruptionto ancient South American societies before Europeans arrived in 1492, University of Exeter academics have discovered.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
AHDB determined to deliver value for money in beef promotion
AHDB Beef Lamb has turned down a 50,000 proposal to fund Ladies in Beef work in the coming financial year.
Partner content
Environment
By Nuclear Industry Association
New Chief Executive for the Nuclear Industry Association
Tom Greatrex has been appointed by the Board as the new Chief Executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, the trade body for the civil nuclear industry. He will take up his position from 1 February 2016 and succeeds Keith Parker who has held the position for more than a decade.
Partner content
Environment
By Chartered Institution of Wastes Management
Steve Lee, Chief Executive of CIWM, to step down at the end of 2016
The Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM) has announced today that its Chief Executive Steve Lee will be stepping down from the post at the end of this year.
Domestically produced shale gas 'an opportunity we can’t afford to ignore'
Environment
By Kevin Hollinrake MP
Domestically produced shale gas 'an opportunity we can’t afford to ignore'
Conservative MP for Thirsk and Malton in North Yorkshire, Kevin Hollinrake, writes on the topic of his Westminster Hall debate: 'the potential role of UK manufacturing in development of onshore oil and gas'
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
ETI Chief Executive to give evidence to Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of its inquiry into low carbon network infrastructure
The Energy Technologies Institutes Chief Executive Dr David Clarke will give evidence to the Energy and Climate Change Committee as part of its inquiry into low carbon network infrastructure on Tuesday morning.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
Over 40 organisations unite for a brighter future for woods and trees
The Woodland Trust is leading 47 cross-sector organisations* from across the UK in a call to celebrate, and secure the future of, our trees and woodland by creating a Charter for Trees, Woods and People.
Partner content
Environment
By Mineral Products Association
MPA’s Latest Sustainable Development Report Highlights the Industry’s Commitment to Transparency
The Mineral Products Association (MPA) has published its 2015 Sustainable Development (SD) Report, covering the year 2014.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
Polish TV debut for Quality Standard Mark lamb
Quality Standard Mark lamb took a starring role in one of Polands most popular TV cookery shows recently.
Energy Bill: Another constitutional battleground? Partner content
Environment
By Dods Monitoring
Energy Bill: Another constitutional battleground?
Assessing this week's Energy Bill debate, Dods Monitoring predicts February may see the Lords' willingness to block Government legislation tested again.
Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
Bioenergy should be accelerated in the UK to deliver affordable low carbon energy options
A new report Delivering Greenhouse Gas Emission Savings through UK Bioenergy Value Chains from the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) reaffirms the potential of bioenergy as a low carbon game changer for the UKs future energy system with its importance as a development priority heightened following recent energy policy announcements.
Bioenergy hailed as ‘low carbon game changer’ Partner content
Environment
By Energy Technologies Institute
Bioenergy hailed as ‘low carbon game changer’
Bioenergy has the potential to be a low carbon game changer for the UK’s future energy system, according to a new report from the Energy Technologies Institute.
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Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
New videos highlight importance of sending clean stock to slaughter
Producers are being reminded about the importance of ensuring livestock are clean when they are presented for slaughter in two videos produced by AHDB Beef Lamb.
Partner content
Environment
By Woodland Trust
48 cross-sector organisations unite to call for a UK Charter for Trees, Woods and People
The Woodland Trust is leading 48* organisations in a campaign to celebrate the value of our trees and woods and secure their future by creating a new Charter for Trees, Woods and People.
What’s next for nuclear in 2016? Partner content
Environment
By Nuclear Industry Association
What’s next for nuclear in 2016?
The Nuclear Industry Association sets out the challenges for the UK’s civil nuclear industry in 2016.
Partner content
Environment
By Campaign to Protect Rural England
Flooding in Northern England
Through the month of December 2015 Northern England faced terrible flooding. Communities in Cumbria, Yorkshire, Lancashire and Greater Manchester were faced with the devastating consequences of unprecedented rainfall and inadequate flood defences.
Partner content
Environment
By AHDB Beef and Lamb
New education programme to develop skills in meat supply chain
AHDB Beef Lamb have launched a Meat Education Programme to help further develop skills in the red meat supply chain.
Ensuring children achieve a happy and healthy adulthood
Environment
By Baroness Benjamin
Ensuring children achieve a happy and healthy adulthood
Baroness Benjamin writes ahead of her oral question today in the House of Lords on: 'ensuring that children grow up fit and healthy' in light of recent obesity reports.
Liquefied petroleum gas can help solve London's air quality crisis Partner content
Environment
By Calor Gas
Liquefied petroleum gas can help solve London's air quality crisis
Calor Gas' Head of Strategy and Corporate Affairs, Paul Blacklock writes that London cabs switching to LPG can improve London's air quality and calls on London Mayoral candidates to embrace this option.
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Total Politics at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
2025
Bayview Suite 2
Total Politics at the Liberal Democrat Party Conference
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
2025
Room 4A and 4B
Total Politics at the Labour Party Conference
Total Politics at the Conservative Party Conference
2025
Derby Suite
Total Politics at the Conservative Party Conference
Parliament's People Awards
2026
The Palace of Westminster
Parliament's People Awards