3 h. ago We built a wheelchair ramp without planning permission and the council wants us to tear it down

East Riding of Yorkshire Council has ordered the couple to reverse the modifications, claiming they were carried out without permissions and harm the appearance of the village's area.

Events

3 d. ago Grandparents ordered to tear down luxury £1m home in planning row

"Planning rules are there for a reason – including protecting our countryside and this decision demonstrates that we will act when those rules are broken."

Society

3 d. ago Couple ordered to tear down dream £1million home in 'flagrant breach' of planning

Jeremy Zielinski and his wife Elaine spent years building the property of their dreams - but now they have been told to tear it down after a "flagrant breach" of planning rules

Economics

3 d. ago Couple ordered to tear down dream £1million home in 'flagrant breach' of rules

A planning inspector has slammed Jeremy Zielinski and his wife Elaine's work in Great Abington, Cambridgeshire as "a clear and flagrant breach of planning policy"

Economics

4 d. ago Couple who illegally built dream £1million home instead of horse breeding clinic are ordered to tear it down after planning inspector criticises 'flagrant breach' of rules

Jeremy Zielinski, 73, and wife Elaine, 79, claim they 'thought it was totally legal' to create a residential property instead of a business.

Economics

3 w. ago ‘One big dream’: Bodø/Glimt’s modern miracle built on history and humility

Family club, known as a symbol of northern Norwegian self-esteem, prepare to face Tottenham in Europa League semisNobody is sure precisely when the “coffee table” tradition began, but consensus traces it back about 60 years. It would take a lot for one of the regulars not to show up. The time is almost 11am and cups are being laid out in the Aspmyra Stadion canteen for the Bodø/Glimt old boys’ daily catchup. In walks Ivar Bakke, who can count himself as the group’s elder statesman at 94. “One of the oldest people in Norway!” he laughs before sitting down. Tall tales are retold, memories sharpened in delighting over past and more recent glories; however far those stretch, everyone here knows what it has taken to bring their club to the barely fathomable territory of a Europa League semi-final.The raconteur in chief is Jacob Klette, a sharp figure in his late 70s who made almost 400 appearances for a team that broke boundaries. “The northern part of Norway has always had to fight for ...

Politics

3 w. ago Bake Off star Paul Hollywood's plans to tear down crumbling conservatory at his farmhouse for huge open plan kitchen to film new TV shows

Paul Hollywood hopes to turn home cooking into a money spinner by filming TV cookery shows in a new kitchen extension at his historic farmhouse.

Culture

last month Spain scraps €6.6m arms order from Israeli company after outcry

Coalition allies of Pedro Sánchez said the purchase of millions of bullets jeopardised country’s efforts to hold Israel to account over war in GazaSpain has scrapped a €6.6m (£5.7m) order for millions of bullets from an Israeli company after the junior partners in its coalition government denounced it as a “flagrant breach” of the alliance agreement that jeopardised the country’s sustained efforts to hold Israel accountable for its actions in Gaza.The country’s socialist prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel’s conduct during the war in Gaza, questioning whether it is following international humanitarian law and calling the number of Palestinian deaths “truly unbearable”. Continue reading...

Politics