7 h. ago Residents in leafy Cardiff suburb take a stand against plans to turn house into flats

A petition has been launched in opposition to plans to turn a semi-detached house in a "unique" residential area of the city into flats

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26 h. ago New council homes set for East Kilbride after £8.7m investment

The mix of houses across the site consists of three-bedroom terraced houses, four-bedroom detached houses and two-bedroom cottage flats and terraced houses.

Economics

29 h. ago Vilhelm’s Room by Tove Ditlevsen review – a portrait of catastrophic mental illness

Originally published a year before her death, the Danish author’s final novel is an autofictional suicide noteTove Ditlevsen’s last novel, Vilhelm’s Room, was originally published in Denmark in 1975. As it begins, the protagonist, Lise Mundus, has just been abandoned by Vilhelm, her husband of 20 years. He’s a celebrity newspaper editor; she’s an acclaimed writer with a history of addiction. From a bed in a psychiatric ward, Lise publishes a lonely hearts ad: “Recently escaped a long, unhappy marriage – aged 51, but youthful in spirit – wonderful son, aged 15 – household literary name – summerhouse – large flat in the city centre – temporarily incapacitated by a nervous breakdown – prefers a motorist.”The ad is seized upon by Lise’s malicious upstairs neighbour, Mrs Thomsen, who shows it to her young lodger/lover, Kurt, hoping he can financially exploit Lise. Kurt is duly installed in Lise’s home, but finds himself treated there with total indifference. Lise is wholly cons...

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55 h. ago I won a £4,500,000 Omaze London house and said goodbye to my studio flat

I won a £4,500,000 Omaze London house and said goodbye to my studio flat  Metro.co.uk

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4 d. ago Angela three pads Rayner: Deputy PM buys £800k seaside apartment, owns £650k family house and lives in flat paid for by the taxpayer (...while backing tax hikes on homeowners)

Angela Rayner's Hove apartment is the latest addition to her burgeoning property empire - which includes a £650,000 four-bed in Greater Manchester and a grace-and-favour pad in Admiralty House.

Society

9 d. ago MAIL ON SUNDAY COMMENT: Your party doesn't want us to have two homes, let alone three, Angela

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner now has three homes - one in her Ashton-under-Lyne constituency, an apartment in London's majestic Admiralty House and now a flat in fashionable Hove.

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9 d. ago Angela Rayner shells out £800,000 for her THIRD home: As Labour turns the screws on second

The Housing Secretary's new 'holiday home' in Hove is in addition to the £650,000 house she owns in her constituency and a three-bedroom grace-and-favour flat in Admiralty House.

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1 week ago We shouldn’t focus on ‘how bad slavery was’ says Trump. What’s next? | Francine Prose

Trump’s attacks on the Smithsonian are meant to convince us that truth doesn’t matter and we should blindly accept his liesDonald Trump’s critique of the Smithsonian Institution for its focus on “how bad slavery was” might seem like a joke, except that, like so many of the ignorant, mean-spirited and flat-out racist opinions and directives issued by the White House over the last six months, it’s not even remotely funny.What makes it even more absurd and disturbing is that the president and his minions (JD Vance, the vice-president, sits on the Smithsonian’s board) are determined to micro-manage the exhibits and wall texts on view at the 21 museums that operate under the Smithsonian’s aegis and to replace the truth about history with “unifying and constructive descriptions”. Among the proscribed images are a picture of the former NIAID director Dr Anthony Fauci (one of the president’s perceived enemies) and a photo of immigrants watching fireworks through a gap in the border wall.Fra...

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1 week ago Former high flats residents get chance to move back to new Ayr housing scheme

The project, which cost around £17.2m including a £6.7m contribution from the Scottish Government, will see 75 new homes completed in January 2026.

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1 week ago Heavenly housemate! Pope Leo moves in to a palatial Vatican flatshare with pals

Days after his election, the Pope announced he would live in the luxurious Papal apartments in Rome's Apostolic Palace, unlike his predecessor Pope Francis .

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1 week ago How home sizes are changing in the UK: Are they getting bigger or smaller?

Other dwellings such as semi-detached houses grew between 2013 and 2023

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2 w. ago 'Horror movie' horde of rats swarm London flats as locals desperately run away

Residents have slammed their housing association after a swarm of rats in their block of flats has forced some families to flee while others share their 'horror'

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3 w. ago London leaver: 'we sold our Tooting flat for £635k and have spent £1.1m on a house in Hove'

Initially reluctant to move out of south London, this family ended up upsizing on the coast

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3 w. ago Woman trapped in house of horrors as leaky flat above pours water into home

Linda Benjamin has been battling with Renfrewshire Council for eight months after she had water pouring out of her lights and running down the walls.

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3 w. ago 'Surprisingly poor' John Cleese, 85, is set to buy a house in Bath with his fourth wife

The Monty Python star has lived in Monaco in the past, and more recently in Nevis in the Caribbean, where there's no income tax. Pictured: File photo of the Royal Crescent in Bath

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3 w. ago London council loses High Court battle to stop affordable housing in Marylebone being redeveloped

Westminster City Council had sought an order to keep the flats as affordable housing

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last month Legal cases could prise open Epstein cache despite Trump’s blocking effort

Cases winding through courts offer hope that documents could be released even if justice department declinesOn the campaign trail, Donald Trump vowed that his administration would release a tranche of documents in the criminal investigation into disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein.But since Trump returned to the White House, his promises have fallen flat, with few documents released – and backtracking about releasing more records. The lack of disclosure has prompted not only dissatisfaction among those seeking information about Epstein’s crimes, but political flak Trump can’t seem to deflect, especially about his own relations with the convicted sex trafficker. Continue reading...

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