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MPs to hold inquiry into local planning process

MPs have announced they will consider recommendations aimed at streamlining local planning processes.

The local plans expert group, set up by the government last year, issued a report containing 47 recommendations for action in March.

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Review call over European GM crop ban

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County to invest £10m in road surfacing project

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Queen’s Speech 2016: new rules to speed up planning process

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Councils pledge to crack down on ‘toxic’ illegal tobacco market

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Shrinking bird pays the bill for warming

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Different lighting schemes buttress segregation

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Rising seas swallow Pacific islands

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Rural areas at risk of entering ‘digital twilight zone’, LGA warns

A flexible national minimum standard of broadband speed is necessary to stop hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses from falling into a ‘digital twilight zone’, councils say.

The government has pledged to give everybody the legal right to request a broadband connection capable of delivering a minimum download speed of 10Mbps by 2020.

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Tourists asked to fight wildlife trade

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£200m polar research ship named in honour of Sir David Attenborough

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NERC publishes its delivery plan for 2016-2020

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African leaders to hold elephant summit

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Conservation ‘failing Congo rainforests’

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NERC partners with M&S on sustainable food production

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Nothing ‘happening on the ground’ to protect against floods, says council leader