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Northamptonshire has seen a huge growth over the past 20 years according to the BBC Changing UK study.

Union leaders accuse the Royal Mail of shutting 13 sorting offices by 'stealth' with the loss of up to 5,000 jobs.

Countryside campaigners warn the number of electricity pylons could rise dramatically to cope with planned windfarms.

One of Tokyo's few remaining historic buildings, the Kabuki Theatre, is to be controversially demolished amid a frenzy of urban renewal.

The EU hopes its economic stimulus plan will kick-start economies across its member states.

Leading Earth observation scientists urge Gordon Brown to back Europe's environmental monitoring project, GMES.

People who rent the end of their gardens from Network Rail are told they must pay more or see the land fenced off.

The BBC talks to eight experts about what the next US president should to do restore the country's standing in the world.

US shares rise in on hopes that US lawmakers will finally agree a package to rescue the struggling economy.

Why the UN needs to reform, meaningfully, the way it handles environmental issues.

Councillors approve plans for the controversial Caltongate development just off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh.

The 130-year-old Starbeck Baths in Harrogate will shut for five weeks while essential repair work gets under way.

Online firms including YouTube need to do more to protect children from the "dark side" of the internet, MPs have said.

MP Jim Paice wants a meeting to look at safety on the A1307 Cambridge to Haverhill road.

Pope Benedict XVI attacks popular culture and consumerism in an address to tens of thousands of young Catholics.

A minister attacks Tory by-election winner David Davis, comparing him to cartoon character Homer Simpson.

Some of the previous contributors to the Green Room respond to readers' questions.

A bid to ban pedlars from the streets of Bournemouth by the local council is stalled in the House of Commons.

Pedlars in Bournemouth could soon be fined or have their goods confiscated in a plan by the council.

A headmaster who wants to prevent young people from joining gangs is setting up a youth community project at his school.

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