22/01/2025

Birmingham City Council is set to honour the members of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and posthumously award a medal to poet and campaigner Benjamin Zephaniah.

24/05/2024

Sara Jenner-Akehurst from Cambridgeshire County Council has been named as the 2024 Local Government Apprentice of the Year.

16/05/2024

Wakefield Council has awarded ‘local and national legend’ Chris Kamara MBE a Freedom of the City for his services to the area and to charity.

29/04/2024

Former England rugby captain Sir Bill Beaumont has been awarded the Freedom of Fylde – becoming just the second person to receive the honour from the Lancashire council.

18/04/2024

UltraCrete are delighted to announce that they have been presented with the coveted Employment and Skills Award at the 2024 RSTA Annual Conference.

18/03/2024

Leading British ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia is delighted to have won an award at the prestigious CIBSE Building Performance Awards 2024.

30/01/2024

The filmmaker Gareth Edwards has been honoured by his home town with a freedom of the borough.

02/10/2023

The H&V News Awards has shortlisted leading British ventilation manufacturer, Vent-Axia, within two categories in its 2023 awards.

11/07/2023

Wirral Council has voted unanimously to bestow the honorary freedom of the borough award on the late entertainer Paul O’Grady.

26/06/2023

Barnsley MBC has taken the coveted title of Local Authority of the Year at The MJ Achievement Awards this afternoon.

12/05/2023

Prestigious international annual awards program recognizes standout digital health & medical technology products and companies.

04/05/2023

A Doncaster-based technology company, which became an unsung hero of the Covid-19 pandemic, has been honoured with the first ever King’s Award for Innovation.

03/05/2023

Leading ventilation manufacturer Vent-Axia is delighted to announce it has been shortlisted in the Unlock Net Zero Live Awards.

15/02/2023

SWARCO Smart Charging won awards in two categories – EV Service Team of the Year and EV Network Operator of the Year – at the 2023 E-Mobility Awards.

21/10/2022

Cllr Teresa O'Neill, leader of the London Borough of Bexley, was yesterday named leader of the year at a national awards ceremony in Bath.

06/06/2022

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list has paid tribute to local authority personnel from Glasgow City Council who played an important role in delivering COP26.

17/03/2022

South Staffordshire District Council has been handed the title of UK Council of the Year at a national awards ceremony.

04/01/2022

Senior figures from the Local Government Association (LGA) have received awards in the Queen’s New Year Honours.

02/12/2021

Camden Council’s leader, Cllr Georgia Gould, has won Leader of the Year at this year’s 2021 Cllr Awards.

14/10/2021

Over 2,000 parks and green spaces across the UK have received a Green Flag Award for 2021.

13/07/2021

Five projects across the UK have secured over £50m funding to champion environmental, community and cultural heritage.

14/06/2021

The Queen’s Birthday Honours list has paid tribute to two key figures who stepped in following the financial collapse of Northamptonshire County Council.

08/06/2021

The West Midlands Combined Authority (WMCA) has been announced as the seventh most inclusive employer by the National Centre for Diversity.

21/04/2021

There’s great news on The MJ Awards – the deadline for entries has been extended to April 30 so there is loads of time to get them in.

04/01/2021

Figures across local government have been recognised for their response to the pandemic in the 2021 New Year Honours list.

18/12/2020

To end the year on a positive note, we are delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Street Design Awards.

27/11/2020

Cllr Tom Beattie of Corby Borough Council has been named council leader of the year in the 2020 Cllr Awards.

29/10/2020

The City of Manchester Award has been given to Marcus Rashford in recognition of his work to extend free school meals during school holidays.

14/10/2020

A record number of parks and green spaces have been recognised in this year's Green Flag Awards.

12/10/2020

Council leaders and staff have been recognised in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for their services to local government.

14/02/2020

A Windrush festival and a theatre company helping those affected by addiction are among the winners of this year's Hearts for the Arts awards.

11/02/2020

Lewisham is to get the opportunity to showcase its cultural voice after being named London Borough of Culture 2021.

24/01/2020

Treorchy High Street in the Rhondda Valley has been crowned the UK’s best in this year’s Great British High Street Awards.

02/01/2020

Chief executives in Bradford, Harrogate, Leeds, and the chief executive officer of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy are among those to have been recognised in the Queen’s New Year Honours.

06/11/2019

Cllr Darren Rodwell of London Borough of Barking and Dagenham has been named as council leader of the year in the 2019 Cllr Achievement Awards.

05/11/2019

The Street Design Awards 2020 have now been launched to celebrate best practice and innovation across the UK.

14/10/2019

Europe’s largest public-private partnership has called on cities around the world to join its ‘Climathon Global Awards’ to find new systems level solutions to tackle climate change.

11/10/2019

The winners of this year’s Highways Awards have been revealed in front of nearly 500 industry professionals at the Lancaster London.

09/10/2019

A council estate in Norwich has been named as the UK’s best new building.

10/09/2019

The leader of Newport City Council, Debbie Wilcox, is to become a peer under Theresa May’s Resignation Honours List.

07/08/2019

Three UK cities have made the shortlist for receiving the title of European Capital of Innovation 2019.

11/04/2019

Worthing’s Grade II Listed Art Deco pier has been voted the best in the UK for 2019.

14/02/2019

The Street Design Awards, celebrating innovation and best practice in street design schemes, have been relaunched by Local Government News magazine.

07/12/2018

The Street Design Awards, celebrating innovation and best practice in street design schemes across the UK, have been relaunched by Local Government News magazine.

07/11/2018

Cllr Roger Lawrence of the City of Wolverhampton Council has been named leader of the year in the 2018 Councillor Achievement Awards.

17/07/2018

From traditional parks to burial sites, a record number of green spaces have been awarded a Green Flag this year.

07/06/2018

Dundee City Council has won this year's Living Wage Champion Award for Local Authority Leadership.

27/02/2018

Waltham Forest will be awarded over £1m as it is named the first ever London Borough of Culture.

02/01/2018

Social services directors featured prominently in this year’s New Year’s Honours List.

19/12/2017

Laura Sharman attended a special event at Nottingham Castle to celebrate the winners of the first ever Local Public Ownership Awards.

08/12/2017

Coventry has been chosen to be the UK's City of Culture for 2021.

30/11/2017

Five UK cities bidding to be European Capital of Culture have issued a statement questioning legality of the EU’s decision to exclude them from the award.

08/11/2017

Cllr Peter Fleming of Sevenoaks District Council has been named as leader of the year in the 2017 C’llr Achievement Awards.

23/10/2017

The 14th Highways Awards (formerly the Highways Magazine Excellence Awards) took place last Wednesday 18 October in the jubilant atmosphere of the Nine Kings Suite at the Lancaster London.

05/10/2017

Launched in August, the Local Public Ownership Awards showcases some of the best and most inspiring council-run services in the UK.

04/10/2017

Oxford has decided to strip Aung San Suu Kyi of the Freedom of the City because of her response to massacres perpetrated against Myanmar’s Muslim minority.

10/08/2017

The shortlist for the best council-run service has now been published, and people are being to urged to vote for their favourite scheme.

19/06/2017

Four council leaders have been recognised by the Queen in her Birthday’s Honours list for their services to local government.

16/06/2017

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16/06/2017

The City of Wolverhampton Council was named Local Authority of the Year at The MJ Awards last night.

15/06/2017

Ariana Grande could be granted an honorary citizenship of Manchester under new proposals put forward by the council.

24/03/2017

LocalGov and We Own It are partnering up to launch the Local Public Ownership Awards.

13/01/2017

Croydon is now a ‘flexible working council’ thanks to its increasing opportunities for staff to work flexibly, reducing costs and improving services.

03/01/2017

Council leaders, directors and chief executives have been recognised in the 2017 New Year’s Honour list for their ‘tireless’ contribution to local communities.

13/12/2016

Blackburn has come out on top in the awards for Britain's best high street.

02/11/2016

Councillors across the UK were honoured for their public service yesterday as the 2016 C’llr Award Winners were revealed.

18/10/2016

Twenty-seven high streets are finalists in the Great British High Street competition, the Department for Communities and Local Government has announced.

27/06/2016

Peterborough City Council has won the AWS (Amazon Web Services) Global Public Sector Smart City Award.

17/06/2016

Leeds City Council has won the top prize at the MJ Awards 2016.

13/06/2016

Key figures in local government have been recognised on the Queen’s 90th birthday honours list for their services to the sector.

13/05/2016

Liverpool City Council will award its highest honour to the Hillsborough 96 and to those who campaigned on their behalf.

01/12/2015

Bishopthorpe Road in York has been named as the best shopping street in Britain.

13/11/2015

A campaign to boost secondary school attendance in Nottingham by offering pupils the chance to go to an exclusive pop concert has won three national awards.

20/10/2015

The city of Derry has been chosen as the best place in the world to celebrate Halloween, beating off competition from the likes of Transylvania, Sleepy Hollow and Salem.

01/10/2015

The finalists battling it out to win the Great British High Streets competition have been unveiled today.

22/09/2015

Wokingham has been the named the best place in England and Wales for families to live.

22/09/2015

A look at the BT Infinity Lab awards – incubating innovative technology that helps us all

09/09/2015

Local authorities are among the winners of a record number of awards for animal welfare.

07/09/2015

The Royal Borough of Greenwich is the first council to be given a Gold Standard award from the Government for tackling and preventing homelessness.

25/08/2015

Two nature reserves in East Devon have been awarded Dark Sky Discovery Site status.

05/08/2015

Ideas that explore how devolution can deliver increased local government revenues, jobs, homes and infrastructure have been invited to apply for a £15,000 prize fund.

23/07/2015

A record number of parks and green spaces have been given the Green Flag Award this year, partly due to the scheme’s expansion into new territory.

06/07/2015

Jude Taylor from Staffordshire County Council has won the 2015 Local Government Challenge, securing a £10,000 scholarship from the Local Government Association.

02/07/2015

Internet giants Google are offering British high street shops the chance to revolutionise their digital strategies.

19/06/2015

Cheshire West and Chester Council was last night named as winner of The MJ's Best Achieving Council category in a glittering awards ceremony attended by 900 guests.

15/06/2015

Local government leaders and chief executives have been recognised in this year’s Queen’s birthday honours list.

04/06/2015

Lincoln City Council has secured a top award for its project to tackle poverty locally.

21/05/2015

Former foreign secretary William Hague is to be the host presenter for The MJ Local Government Achievement Awards next month.

22/04/2015

Over one hundred entries to The MJ's annual local government awards in 16 categories have been selected as finalists, it was announced today.

09/04/2015

A fly on the wall documentary about the day-to-day life of a council adoption service has been nominated for a prestigious Bafta award.

03/03/2015

The winners of the 2015 C’lrr Award have been announced, with Tudor Evans from Plymouth City Council securing Leader of the Year Award.

07/01/2015

A 16th category has been added to The MJ Local Government Achievement Awards this year thanks to Asidua which is sponsoring Innovation in Channel Shift.

05/01/2015

Council leaders and chief executives have been awarded in the New Year’s Honours list in recognition of the ‘huge impact’ they have on society.

11/12/2014

Three new categories have been announced today in local government’s premier awards, The MJ Local Government Achievement Awards 2015 bringing the total number to 15.

25/11/2014

Haringey and Havering LBCs have scooped top prizes for their work to improve community safety at this year’s Problem Oriented Partnerships (POP) awards.

25/11/2014

The Mary Rose Museum (pictured) has been chosen as the People’s Choice for 2014 in this year’s Solent Design Awards.

10/11/2014

Seven shopping centres across the UK have been named as winners in the national Great British High Street competition.

31/10/2014

A gold bullion worth £9,000 has been won in a treasure hunt organised to promote local history in Lincolnshire.

16/10/2014

Victoria Park in the East End of London has been crowned the UK’s favourite park for the second time in three years.

09/10/2014

Rochdale’s Number One Riverside development has been chosen as the best workplace in the country in the British Council of Offices (BCO) awards.