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Union says firefighters working 17 hour shifts have relied on donations for basic supplies.

The Local Government Association has warned that nearly half of all bus routes in England currently receive partial or complete subsidies from councils and are under threat.

Research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies shows the rate of child poverty today is roughly double the rate of pensioner poverty.

The  Local Government Agency has warned that severe child obesity rates, which have been published for the first time, are contributing to a multi-billion pound ill-health time bomb.