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Councillors in the UK's second-largest city Birmingham were poised Tuesday to approve tax hikes and deep cuts to public services that could include axed arts funding and reduced rubbish collection, as the city fights to avoid bankruptcy.

Editorial: Westminster cannot continue to ignore the scale of social devastation caused by the chronic underfunding of council services

The changes to the way polls are run will pile pressure on already stretched electoral staff.

The council does not have the money to pay off an equal pay liability, estimated to be more than £1 billion.

The 230 councils being contested in the local elections were last up for grabs in the dying days of Theresa May's premiership in 2019, when the Tories suffered major losses at the ballot box

Survey lays bare precarious state of local finances and increasingly ‘desperate’ measures to stay solvent