Labour announced last year it was planning to cancel elections in 30 areas - affecting more than 4.5 million people - to overhaul English council structures. But in February, the Ministry of Housing, ...

Norway’s Anna Odine Stroem has won her second ski jumping gold medal of the Milan Cortina Games. Stroem won the women's large hill event in its Olympic debut.

When she left that post in 2000, she teamed up with Helen Dennis, a retirement consultant she knew, on a project to help people like them — women who held leadership roles in business, academia and ...