10 h. ago New Pompeii study uncovers one family’s terrifying final moments

Archaeologists discover bed wedged against door of a house - alongside remains of a child

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13 h. ago Pompeii family's desperate fight for survival: Archaeologists discover a bed wedged against the door of a house

Experts from Pompeii Archaeological Park have excavated a home dubbed the 'House of Elle and Frisso' along Via del Vesuvio.

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1 week ago Action needed: social housing providers must be made accountable for the treatment of their tenants | Steve Bundred

Angela Rayner’s renters’ rights bill is admirable, but it won’t help those living in substandard accommodationSteve Bundred is a former Audit Commission chief executiveOn the tree-lined north London street where I live, scaffolders arrived seven years ago. Metal poles were erected around a housing association property next door to me, owned by the social housing provider Peabody, to allow for external refurbishment work to be carried out. But today, that scaffolding still stands – and those repair works have never been carried out.“This is yet another example of Peabody’s casual neglect of their residents. They do not respond to emails from me or senior council officers and have also ignored an enforcement notice served on them by planning officers,” the chair of Islington council’s planning committee, Martin Klute, recently told the Islington Tribune. Peabody owns more than 5% of Islington’s nearly 112,000 properties. And it has well below average performance on every key indicator...

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1 week ago ‘Is there a place for the poor?’ Artists and activists try to revive Johannesburg, crumbling City of Gold

Issues around basic services, corruption and class trouble vibrant Johannesburg, which this year hosts the G20 summitBethabile Mavis Manqele mops the veranda of the house she has lived in for most of the last 40 years. The ceiling above her is full of holes, blackened by years of cooking fires. Manqele, 64, isn’t sure how many people live in the house’s seven rooms. There are no utilities, the landlord is absent and she hasn’t paid rent in years, she says through a translator. The occupants share a portable toilet provided and cleaned by an NGO, plus one outdoor tap with the house next door, which has no roof.Manqele’s home in the inner city district of Berea is emblematic of Johannesburg’s downtown, which was progressively abandoned by wealthy people, businesses and government from the 1980s. Hundreds of buildings left empty by landlords are now overcrowded, and the area is notorious for crime. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Greater Manchester Police broke down my door after getting the wrong house

It took almost four months for him to finally receive an answer, telling him that after 'carefully assessing the facts', he could not be reimbursed for the damage

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2 w. ago I fell in love with the builder working nextdoor... but my dream man turned into a nightmare

Sharon Annoscia, 53, from Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, found herself attracted to a Polish builder who was 12 years her junior when he was working on the house next door.

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3 w. ago Mickey Rourke's personal hygiene habit is branded 'disgusting' by Celebrity Big Brother viewers as shocked housemates watch on in horror

The actor and boxer, 72, headed through into the main house after the bedroom door opened in the morning, and went straight over to the kitchen sink.

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3 w. ago Does a Gail's next door leave you rolling in dough?: MailOnline reveals if the GAIL'S EFFECT works for your house prices

Whether you're a lover or a hater, the one thing everyone is desperate to debate is the 'Gail's theory' - a longstanding idea that Gail's bakeries boost house prices.

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4 w. ago Vilified, arrested, held incommunicado: that's the price of protest in Britain today | George Monbiot

It seems to me that whatever the charges facing the activists at the Quaker meeting house raid, their fundamental crime is dissentThe faces are different, but it’s the same authoritarianism. Keir Starmer’s team might not look or sound like Donald Trump’s, but its policies on protest and dissent are chillingly similar. So is the reason: coordinated global lobbying by the rich and powerful, fronted by rightwing junktanks.Last week, six young women were having tea and biscuits in the Quaker meeting house in Westminster. Twenty police officers forced open the door and arrested them on conspiracy charges. Had the police discovered a plot to blow up parliament or to poison the water supply? No. It was an openly advertised, routine meeting of a protest group called Youth Demand, discussing climate breakdown and the assault on Gaza.George Monbiot is a Guardian columnistThe Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, by George Monbiot and Peter Hutchison, was published in paperb...

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