Politics

Alcohol duty has been simplified, a fuel duty rise cancelled and the minimum wage is going up following the Budget.

A planning application has been submitted to build 12 new homes on farmland in a village, of which 10 would be affordable.

Planning permission for a call-off facility with a vehicle preparation building is being discussed by a planning committee this week.

The Chancellor will be opening up that famous budget briefcase on Wednesday but what could it mean for the Grantham area?

Dr Caroline Johnson MP has called for a new dental school to highlight the difficulties currently facing NHS dentistry in the county.

People have been signing a petition calling for the resignation of a Tory councillor who made a racist remark at a public meeting.

The Labour Group of Councillors are calling for a councillor to consider his position following the racist comment he made in a public meeting.

Rutland and Melton MP Alicia Kearns pays tribute to Sir David Amess.

An investigation has been launched after the vice chairman of a council made a racist comment during a public meeting.

Grantham MP Gareth Davies talks of his shock at the death of Sir David Amess.

Just over a quarter of councillors took up a diversity course at SKDC, as an opposition member renewed calls for the training to be mandatory.

A councillor has been suspended from the Conservative Group of South Kesteven District Council after making a racist remark.

A formal complaint is being made about the vice chairman of a council who made a racist comment at a public meeting, for which he has apologised.

Councillors banished from the Tory Party for harassing their clerk were relentlessly heckled by residents as they agreed to an improvement board.

The leader of Lincolnshire County Council says he is expecting a tough financial settlement from the government.

Labour councillor says a winter of discontent is rearing its ugly head again.

Tributes are coming in for a politician who has died after being stabbed at a constituency surgery in Essex today.

Grantham MP Gareth Davies says every minute without CPR being applied reduces the chance of a patient’s survival by 10 per cent.

The deputy leader of a council has stepped down from his role to focus on 'personal business activities'.

A TV station's mix-up led to a picture of Grantham MP Gareth Davies being used instead of that of a Welsh MP with the same name.