5 h. ago North London residents including Benedict Cumberbatch and Ed Miliband’s wife face defeat over plans for £5.6m flats

Planning officers at Camden Council are set to decide on the proposals at a meeting on Thursday

Economics

9 h. ago Benedict Cumberbatch and Ed Miliband's wife face defeat in battle against plans for £5.6million five

The Sherlock star is among residents in Dartmouth Park, north London, who want Camden Council to reject plans to transform an existing two-floor home.

Economics

1 week ago ‘The source of all life is here’: plan to mine lithium in Chilean salt flat sparks fears of water scarcity

The Colla Indigenous people claim Rio Tinto’s plans to extract the key mineral will harm fragile ecosystems and livelihoodsMiriam Rivera Bordones tends her goats in a dusty paddock in the russet mountains of Chile’s Atacama desert. She also keeps chickens and has planted quince and peach trees and grapevines, which are watered by a stream winding down the hills towards the Indigenous community of Copiapó.But now the huge British-Australian mining multinational Rio Tinto has signed a deal to extract lithium, the “white gold” of the energy transition, from a salt flat farther up the mountains, and she fears the project could affect the water sources of several communities in the area. Continue reading...

Politics

2 w. ago Expect turbulence! Plans to flatten airfield to make way for 4,250 homes in Jane Austen country send pilots into spin

Pilots at Popham Airfield are furious over proposals to turn their cherished land in Jane Austen country into a 'garden village'.

Society

4 w. ago Man, 20, charged with murder after boy, 15, stabbed to death in residential street

A MAN has been charged with murder after a "beautiful and loving" fifteen-year-old boy was stabbed to death in a busy residential street. Adam John Henry was tragically killed in Islington, north London, during a horror attack in broad daylight on December 9. Emergency crews were scrambled following reports of a stabbing on Westbourne Road at...

Events

4 w. ago UK plans curb on freeholders blocking broadband cabling in flats

Building owners would no longer be able to ‘unreasonably refuse’ upgrade requests from leaseholders

Politics