14 h. ago Your house value will soar by 'thousands' if you make any of these home improvements

Estate agents have shared the features which could make your property worth much more

Society

18 h. ago Residents evacuated after police discover explosive at dead man’s house

A bomb disposal team rushed to the scene after police discovered ‘several’ unexploded weapons while investigating a non-suspicious death

Events

21 h. ago A moment that changed me: I had a wild London party life – until I met a man who lived on a houseboat

I had my dream career in publishing, but was jumping from one emotional and romantic disaster to the next. Could I find stability and rootedness with a new life on an island?If you’d told me when I was in my early 30s that, by the end of that decade, I would be living in a houseboat, I would never have believed you. I was a devoted Londoner, born and bred, and very wedded to my city lifestyle. I’d got a 100% mortgage and bought a tiny flat with a balcony, where I would host parties – and defy gravity – every weekend.Romantically, I was jumping from one emotional disaster to another, falling for unsuitable people, closing my ears to those who dropped hints about biological clocks. I had my dream career in publishing and most weeknights could be found stumbling out of the Groucho Club and into a cab. In the early 00s, publishing was all about “networking” and there was always someone keen to go for “just one” – code for a late night of heavy drinking, often culminating in karaoke. I’d...

Society

30 h. ago Useless burglar caught by police after he ran bath in stranger's home ‘to escape wife’

A man identified only as 'Joe' was found in a stranger's house having just run himself a bath and made a batch of food, claiming he was on the run from his wife

Events

32 h. ago North Carolina shooting victim was hit accidentally when partygoer returned fire, officials say

Authorities in North Carolina say a man killed in a house party shooting that left 11 other people injured was hit inadvertently by a partygoer returning fire at shooters on a nearby hillside

Events

34 h. ago UK households urged to take hot showers instead of cold during summer

Experts say Brits are making a key mistake during the hot weather

Politics

61 h. ago UK households told 'do not' throw away leftover coffee grounds

They can be beneficial in your home and garden

Politics

63 h. ago Man in court charged with murder of partner found stabbed after house explosion

Clifton George, 44, has been charged with the murder of Annabel Rook and arson with intent to endanger life.

Events

64 h. ago UK households urged to wash bedding this often during summer

People aren't changing their bedding enough, says one expert

Politics

65 h. ago UK households told to 'take action' if you spot blackbirds in your garden

There are small changes you can make to help protect the beloved garden birds

Politics

65 h. ago Man arrested over class A drug supply as police storm house in dawn raid

Eyewitnesses say they heard loud voices shouting 'police' and banging noises just after 5.30am

Events

66 h. ago "I've got a lovely house": Woman, 39, arrested for drink driving in her Mercedes gave police a ridiculous excuse

She told the arresting police officers that she was a 'really nice person' with a 'lovely house'

Events

67 h. ago Man charged with murder of woman found stabbed after house explosion

Clifton George, 44, was charged on Sunday with the murder of Annabel Rook, the Metropolitan Police said.

Events

3 d. ago UK households should place this common fruit by windows to help repel houseflies in summer

It can be bought for as little as 89p in supermarkets

Politics

3 d. ago Man violently vomits as girlfriend sleeps with other man in 'horrible' Channel 4 show

WARNING, GRAPHIC CONTENT: Channel 4's Open House: The Great Sex Experiment has left viewers stunned as a man vomited in a recent episode while his girlfriend slept with another man

Politics

3 d. ago The court battle over £1billion and how Manchester missed out on affordable housing

It could have major implications for Andy Burnham's office and Manchester's biggest developer

Economics

4 d. ago When I think about the burglar menacing my mother, the memories are slippery. She wasn’t chirping. She was screaming

Natasha Sholl was four ( or perhaps five?) when a man entered her family home wielding a knife ( or a box cutter? or a screwdriver?)My mother is chirping, like a small bird. I laugh. What a fun game. And when I run through the house to find her, there is a man in a balaclava with a knife to her throat. She is not chirping. She is screaming. The expectation of one thing when the opposite is true. And yet in my memory it is still a chirp, not a scream.When I think about the robbery, even now, decades later, it is my toes that tingle. My ankles. I was four at the time. Or five. I do not remember. Time, what a slippery thing. My friend Hayley was over to play. Sometime after the chirping, the man with a knife to my mother’s throat told us to go upstairs to my room and not to open the door. I do not remember this happening but, when I reverse-engineer the events, I know it to be true. Until it’s not. Maybe it was my mum. Maybe my mum had told us to go to my room and not to come out. What...

Politics

4 d. ago Suspect in Minnesota lawmaker’s killing was ‘prepper’ preparing ‘for war’

Vance Boelter had texted his family that they needed to flee their house before ‘people with guns’ showed upThe man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to “prepare for war” as he tried to evade capture, according to new court filings.Vance Boelter, 57, faces multiple federal and state murder charges after allegedly shooting dead the Democratic Minnesota state house speaker emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in the early hours of 14 June. Boelter is also accused of shooting and seriously wounding the Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, about 90 minutes earlier. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago Suspect in Minnesota killings accused of being ‘prepper’ preparing ‘for war’

Vance Boelter texted family that they needed to flee their house before ‘people with guns’ showed up, filings allegeThe man charged in connection with the recent shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers and their spouses was a doomsday “prepper” who instructed his family to “prepare for war” as he tried to evade capture, according to new court filings.Vance Boelter, 57, faces multiple federal and state murder charges after allegedly shooting dead the Democratic Minnesota state house speaker emerita Melissa Hortman and her husband, Mark, in the early hours of 14 June. Boelter is also accused of shooting and seriously wounding the Democratic state senator John Hoffman and his wife, Yvette, about 90 minutes earlier. Continue reading...

Events

4 d. ago Millions of households could pay £38 less a month on council tax bill under new changes

The average band D household would pay approximately £38 less each month if they paid over 12 months instead of ten, according to figures from the the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Economics