The Latest Breaking News from Paul Lawrence

The council has secured a new company to run the Christmas market and ice rink - but city councillors say big questions remain over what happened with the original contract.

A number of new attractions proposed including a zip wire and a new fun fair will no longer be delivered after Christmas market contractors walked away from the deal.

This weekend’s Classic Nostalgia gathering at the 117-year-old Shelsley Walsh hillclimb course spotlights storied British marque BRM and a celebration of rallying on its long list of attractions

An SNP councillor said she was "shocked" at plans for the chief executive and two councillors to sign off plans for how £13m from the UK Government's Shared Prosperity Fund should be spent.

The British Touring Car Championship began last weekend at Donington Park, and with it came the usual thrilling racing action from the TOCA supports. Elsewhere, close battles raged in the opening rounds of the British Rally Championship and British Hillclimb Championship

The Council purchased Custom House in 2014 with the intention of turning it into a museum ⁠— an option now deemed financially unsustainable, as plans are unveiled to create a 'community and creative hub' instead.

A councillor's bid to run a trial scheme of side street crossings in Edinburgh failed after the council found they would breach UK Government legislation.