17 h. ago Vulnerable woman and children housed in property linked to notorious paedophile Todros Grynhaus

Manchester Council said it was 'unacceptable' the family had been recommended a house linked to the convicted sex offender. Nicole Wootton-Cane reports.

Society

25 h. ago English councils urged to install pavement gullies for home charging of electric cars

Scheme aims to stop cables trailing across pavements and encourage drivers to switch to electric vehiclesLocal councils in England will be encouraged to install pavement gullies that link houses to the kerbside so that electric cars owners can charge their cars from home if they do not have a driveway.The new government scheme hopes to stop cables trailing across pavements, as EV owners in built up areas where off-street parking is scarce, try to charge their cars. The Department for Transport has said it will put £25m towards “cross-pavement” charging – essentially a narrow cable channel with a cover on top. Continue reading...

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56 h. ago Win a stay at the luxury glamping site near Manchester backed by BBC's Dragons' Den

There are pods, lodges, yurts and a tree house and most have their own hot tub

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63 h. ago Cabbie swaps council flat for £4m beach house he got for £25 and celebrates with one thing

James Moughton, 71, from Hull, has won the latest Omaze Million Pound House Draw and is now the proud owner of an exquisite four-bedroom property in West Sussex, offering panoramic sea views

Society

3 d. ago Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – and it’s easy to see why | Justin Kadi

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things rightWhen it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a common reference. Indeed, the Austrian capital features prominently in narratives about successful housing policies. An article in the Observer concluded that Vienna shows “decent homes for all” is not an impossible dream. And the New York Times even declared it “a renters’ utopia”.A considerable part of the attraction of Vienna relates to its large social-housing stock. It accounts for some 43% of the roughly 1m housing units in the city. About half of it is municipally owned council housing. The other half is provided and administered by limited-profit housing associations – an Austrian version of social housing providers that are permitted to make a small profit to finance their operations. Social housing is not just for those on low incomes, but also caters to middle- and even some upper-...

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3 d. ago Vienna has been declared a renters’ utopia – here's why | Justin Kadi

Social housing makes up almost half of the city’s 1m homes. The system isn’t perfect, but it gets a lot of things rightWhen it comes to best-practice examples in the housing debate, Vienna is a common reference. Indeed, the Austrian capital features prominently in narratives about successful housing policies. An article in the Observer concluded that Vienna shows “decent homes for all” is not an impossible dream. And the New York Times even declared it “a renters’ utopia”.A considerable part of the attraction of Vienna relates to its large social-housing stock. It accounts for some 43% of the roughly 1m housing units in the city. About half of it is municipally owned council housing. The other half is provided and administered by limited-profit housing associations – an Austrian version of social housing providers that are permitted to make a small profit to finance their operations. Social housing is not just for those on low incomes, but also caters to middle- and even some upper-...

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4 d. ago Kate Middleton's loyal PA and stylist Natasha Archer leaves royal household after 15 years to set up her own company

Natasha, 37, began working for the Royal Family in 2010 when she was appointed a personal assistant to both the Prince and Princess of Wales.

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5 d. ago Convicted paedophile brands residential school abuse allegations ‘rubbish’

An ex-teacher, referred to as Evan, gave evidence via videolink from prison, where he is serving an eight-year sentence for sexual assault and rape.

Events

6 d. ago Across Europe, the financial sector has pushed up house prices. It's a political timebomb | Tim White

We’ve been living in a great experiment: can finance provide basic human rights such as housing? The answer is increasingly no“The housing crisis is now as big a threat to the EU as Russia,” Jaume Collboni, the mayor of Barcelona, recently declared. “We’re running the risk of having the working and middle classes conclude that their democracies are incapable of solving their biggest problem.”It is not hard to see where Collboni is coming from. From Dublin to Milan, residents routinely find half of their incomes swallowed up by rent, and home ownership is unthinkable for most. Major cities are witnessing spiralling house prices and some have jaw-dropping year-on-year median rent increases of more than 10%. People are being pushed into ever more precarious and cramped conditions and homelessness is rapidly rising. Continue reading...

Events

9 d. ago Madeleine McCann breakthrough hopes as Christian Bruekner may be held in jail longer

Christian Brueckner, a convicted paedophile and rapist, was named the prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann back in 2020 - but police haven't been able to charge him due to lack of evidence

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9 d. ago Budapest’s young people are joining the ranks of generation rent | Csaba Jelinek

Sell-offs of public housing and the right’s promotion of home ownership has left too many unable to afford accommodationCsaba Jelinek is an urban sociologist based in BudapestWhen I left my family home to study at university in 2007 and moved to downtown Budapest, housing costs were hardly a topic of conversation among my friends. I rented rooms in centrally located flats for £80-£100 per month. Fast forward to 2025 and a similar room in a shared flat would set you back at least £200 – double the price of 15 years ago. Talk to anyone in their 20s in Budapest today, and the deepening housing crisis will inevitably come up as one of the defining struggles of their lives.The statistics paint an equally grim picture. Between 2010 and 2024, Hungary saw the largest increase of the housing price index among EU member states. While the EU average rose by 55.4%, Hungary’s housing price index rocketed by 234%. Meanwhile, per capita net income only grew by 86% in the 2010s. Budapest, the capit...

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1 week ago Rental Revamp: How a Creator Found a Flat in London’s Tight Housing Market—and Made It Her Own

Rental Revamp: How a Creator Found a Flat in London’s Tight Housing Market—and Made It Her Own  Dwell

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1 week ago What's occurring? You can own piece of British TV history as house from iconic sitcom goes on sale for £220k

The house owned by potty-mouthed pensioner Doris in hit BBC One sitcom Gavin & Stacey is up for sale.

Economics

1 week ago Mum has 'perfect response' to neighbour who said they were 'superior household'

A mum has been praised for having the "perfect response" for her neighbour after they claimed they had the "final say" over what she could do to her own property as they were the "senior household"

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting tells Israel to get its own house in order amid Glastonbury ‘death chant’ row

Labour cabinet minister’s message to Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government the strongest since the war in Gaza began

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2 w. ago Streeting tells Israel to get its own ‘house in order’ over West Bank violence

Rapper Bobby Vylan, of punk duo Bob Vylan, on Saturday led crowds at Glastonbury in chants of ‘Free, free Palestine’ and ‘Death, death to the IDF’.

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting hits back at Israel over Glastonbury row: ‘Put your own house in order’

Wes Streeting has told Israel that it needs to get its “own house in order”, following criticism from its embassy in the UK over an anti-IDF chant at Glastonbury festival.

Politics

2 w. ago Wes Streeting says chants about IDF at Glastonbury festival ‘appalling’

Health secretary also says Israel needs to ‘get its own house in order’ while condemning chants led by Bobby VylanChants of death to the Israeli military at Glastonbury were “appalling” and the BBC and the festival have questions to answer, Wes Streeting has said, while adding that Israel needs to “get its own house in order”.The health secretary said the chanting should not have been broadcast to those watching at home, highlighting that Israelis at a similar music festival were kidnapped, murdered and raped. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Wes Streeting hits out at Glastonbury and BBC over ‘death to the IDF’ chants

Labour cabinet minister tells Benjamin Netanyahu’s Israeli government to get its ‘own house in order’ and take violence against Palestinians more seriously

Events

2 w. ago Trump basks in triumph as supreme court kicks away another guard rail

The decision to limit judicial power to curb the president caps a week of – in Trump’s telling – endless winning, from the Middle East to Nato to AfricaHe strode into the White House briefing room feeling invincible. In his own telling, he had fixed the Middle East. He had made Nato pay up. He had pacified the heart of Africa. And now Napoleon Trump had once again just been crowned emperor by the US supreme court.“We’ve had a big week,” Donald Trump, orange hair shimmering, blue tie drooping below the waist, mused from a lectern anointed with the presidential seal. “We’ve had a lot of victories this week.” Continue reading...

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