An electronics firm is to press ahead with a factory closure and 265 job losses after consultation.

A public consultation over plans to shut 10 fire stations across the West Midlands is due to end later.

A public consultation sees widespread support for an extra 900 parking spaces in a Berkshire town.

The assembly government's bill for outside experts more than doubled in four years, Welsh Lib Dem research shows.

A hospital consultant urges the elderly to stay indoors as the freeze brings dozens of broken bones and fall injuries.

The public in Scotland is being encouraged to get involved in consultation on what deserves World Heritage status.

Public consultation has started over plans to ban buses and cars from Oxford city centre.

Consultation on hospital services in Surrey and Hampshire is extended after people ask for more information.

Up to 400 jobs in Lincolnshire could be lost as a food manufacturer begins a 90-day consultation.

A private company could be asked to log details of all telephone calls, emails and internet use, it is reported.

Consultation on a plan by WWF-UK to base its operation in Woking show the idea is "well-received".

Plans to transform Weymouth's seafront in time for the 2012 Olympic Games are put out to public consultation.

A burns specialist whose team treated victims of a steel plant explosion receives an MBE for services to medicine.

The leader of Scotland's doctors says the service faces challenges of increased demand and less funding.

People in an area of Carlisle are consulted over plans to gate off alley ways in a bid to cut crime.

A hospital trust will run a "question time" evening in Guildford as part of its bid for foundation status.

A new planning application has been submitted and a public consultation begun into a new recycling plant in Cornwall.

Pupils and governors will be consulted about the future of a Nottinghamshire school after crumbling concrete was found there.

A public consultation on the future of a west Dorset fire station is set to end on Tuesday.

A belief in astrology and horoscopes has a particularly enthusiastic following in Sri Lanka, where politicians and ordinary people consult the stars for all their decisions, big or small.