1 hour ago New rule change for UK homeowners that could save you 'up to £533 a year on energy bills'

Heat pumps can significantly reduce a property's energy demand - and it is now becoming much easier to install them

Economics

15 h. ago Net Zero tsar Ed Miliband's wife joins 'nimby' campaigners against new housing development they claim has too many 'noisy' heat pumps

Mrs Miliband Justine Thornton has joined a neighbourhood campaign against a small block of flats being built near their £3m Victorian home. Many object to its 'noisy' heat pumps

Politics

27 h. ago Ed Miliband’s wife objects to new block of flats near couple’s home in housing row

Sir Keir Starmer has promised to build 1.5 million homes by the next general election

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28 h. ago Couple who tried to claim £180k for 'psychiatric injury' over noisy beep of car park intercom just inches from their rented city centre apartment have case thrown out

Zhengfang Huang and his girlfriend, Jingjing Chen, lost their claim after Judge Melissa Clarke ruled hey should have 'expected' noise when they rented a flat in the middle of Brighton.

Society

29 h. ago James Whale says he will be 'exceptionally lucky to make it to Christmas' and admits it would be easier to 'just have a heart attack' as he marks 74th birthday following terminal cancer diagnosis

Joined by fellow radio host Lizzie Cundy and his wife Nadine, James gave a health update while enjoying some drinks in the sun.

Science

30 h. ago James Whale says he will be 'exceptionally lucky to make it to Christmas' as he celebrates 74th birthday with friends and family after terminal cancer diagnosis

Joined by fellow radio host Lizzie Cundy and his wife Nadine, James gave a health update while enjoying some drinks in the sun.

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37 h. ago Miliband v Miliband: Energy Secretary's High Court judge wife turns nimby over new flats

Justine Thornton, a High Court judge who is married to the Energy Secretary, wrote to Camden Council in relation to the five-storey building earmarked for land near their north London house.

Events

3 d. ago Plan to demolish retail park and replace it with houses among key Greater Manchester developments

These are all the significant developments tabled with councils across the city-region recently

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3 d. ago Inside Fulham's revamped £100m Riverside Stand dubbed 'the best in the world': Seven floors, two Michelin

Ranging from the subterrannean Dugout sports bar to the three-tier Sky Deck with floors modelled on Soho House and the Orient Express, Fulham's new development exudes style.

Economics

7 d. ago Cruden Group celebrates four shortlistings at 2025 Scottish Home Awards

Five star Scottish homebuilder Cruden Group has received four shortlist nominations at the prestigious 2025 Scottish Home Awards, highlighting the group's continued excellence across private and affordable housing developments.

Events

7 d. ago James Blunt cuts a dashing figure as he joins his wife Sofia at star

A host of celebrities gathered at The Pelican in Notting Hill on Tuesday before heading to London's Royal Festival Hall for the main event, sponsored by People's Postcode Lottery.

Politics

8 d. ago Keir Starmer serves tea and cakes at VE Day party in Downing Street

The Prime Minister, joined by his wife Lady Starmer, invited around 130 people including two Second World War veterans to the event.

Politics

9 d. ago Trump is swiftly undoing transgender protections in HUD’s housing policies

The Trump administration is swiftly remaking housing policy as the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development retreats from long-established fair-housing protections for transgender people

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1 week ago ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s India

Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracyAt her home in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Harleen Kapoor* reflects with melancholy on how, since Narendra Modi became prime minister in 2014, she has spent a lot of time in the office instead of out on the powerful human rights exposés she used to work on.Stories from some of the most deprived areas in the country were her forte. But, she says, in the climate of fear that has built up in India in the past decade, her media outlet has made it clear that her reports on topics such as sexual violence against lower-caste women and the harassment of Muslims are no longer welcome. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana look glamorous as they join David Beckham's pals David Gardner and Gary Neville at his star

The former footballer has already celebrated with a black tie pre-birthday bash in Miami and a family gathering at his £10 million home in the Cotswolds.

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1 week ago Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana look glamorous as they join David Beckham's pals David Gardner and Gary Neville at

Gordon Ramsay and wife Tana look glamorous as they join David Beckham's pals David Gardner and Gary Neville at  Daily Mail

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1 week ago TOM UTLEY: Mrs U's £55 parking fine meant that, for once, SHE looked silly. I paid up

The other day my darling wife, and fellow technophobe, finally joined the brave new world of the smartphone parking app. It was to prove a costly experience.

Economics

1 week ago Allanwater Homes bringing fourteen different house types to new Braidwood, Carluke development

Allanwater Homes, one of Central Scotland’s leading independent housebuilders, has broken ground at its latest development at Braidwood, Carluke, South Lanarkshire, bringing a choice of fourteen different house types to the area. The development will offer 132 family homes in total, the first of which will be made available to reserve in Spring 2025.

Society

1 week ago The BBC is utterly beholden to the right. Why else would it fear a podcast about heat pumps? | George Monbiot

The broadcaster behaves like Starmer’s government: suppress the left, cave to your critics, and undermine your own survivalIt’s no longer even pretending. Last week, the BBC, already the UK’s most prolific censor, instructed the presenter Evan Davis to drop the podcast he hosted in his own time about heat pumps. It was a gentle, wry look at the machines, with no obvious political content. But the BBC, Davis says, saw it as “steering into areas of public controversy”. It should cease forthwith.So are BBC presenters banned from saying anything controversial? Far from it. Take an article published earlier this year by Justin Webb in the Times. It praised the “political genius” of Donald Trump, suggested that Democrats are now seen as the extremists, and claimed that Trump is widely regarded as “making [America] normal again”. The BBC was fine with that, and complaints about it were rejected. Continue reading...

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1 week ago The ancient psychedelics myth: ‘People tell tourists the stories they think are interesting for them’

The narrative of ancient tribes around the world regularly using ayahuasca and magic mushrooms in healing practices is a popular one. Is it true?Beginning in 2001, the Austrian anthropologist Bernd Brabec de Mori spent six years living in the western Amazon. He first arrived as a backpacker, returned to do a master’s thesis on ayahuasca songs, and eventually did a PhD on the music of eight Indigenous peoples in the region. Along the way, he married a woman of the local Shipibo tribe and settled down.“I did not have a lot of money,” he told me, “so I had to make my living there.” He became a teacher. He built a house. He and his wife had children. That rare experience of joining the community, he said, forced him to realise that many of the assumptions he had picked up as an anthropologist were wrong. Continue reading...

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