35 h. ago Texas floods: 133 dead as report claims Camp Mystic leader received flood warning hour before disaster

Flash flood warnings remain in effect across parts of Central Texas Tuesday morning as thunderstorms and torrential rain continue to soak the region

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37 h. ago Texas floods latest: 133 dead as report claims Camp Mystic leader received flood warning hour before disaster

Flash flood warnings remain in effect across parts of Central Texas Tuesday morning as thunderstorms and torrential rain continue to soak the region

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46 h. ago Social landlord’s communities across West Lothian gets top marks in report from leading environmental charity

Wheatley Homes communities were assessed by Keep Scotland Beautiful, the national environmental charity helping create cleaner and greener local environments.

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48 h. ago Texas floods latest: Over 130 dead as report claims Camp Mystic leader received flood warning hour before disaster

Flash flood warnings remain in effect across the Hill Country on Tuesday as torrential rain continues to soak the region

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64 h. ago Cambuslang Park wins prestigious Green Flag Award for eleventh year in a row

The international award i smade by environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful.

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69 h. ago Environmental recognition for Wheatley Group social landlords

All registered social landlords across Wheatley Group have received a five-star rating from a leading environmental charity.

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5 d. ago ‘A vastly superior way to live’: why more seniors should choose cohousing

Unlike nursing homes or living alone (and lonely), cohousing emphasizes community and mutual supportEarlier this year, Angela Maddamma, 72, loaded all her belongings into her car. She drove from a house in suburban Richmond, Virginia, where she had lived for 20 years, to her new life about five hours west, in a senior cohousing project called ElderSpirit.Cohousing communities are “thoughtfully designed neighborhoods with private homes” arranged around common areas, where people may gather and build relationships with their neighbors, according to the Cohousing Company design firm. Cohousing is typically multigenerational – of the roughly 170 total cohousing units in the US, most are home to people of all ages, from young families to seniors. But about 12 are senior-specific. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Black people in England four times as likely to face homelessness, study finds

Black people also less likely than white people to get social housing and can face ‘overt racism’ from private landlordsBlack people in England are almost four times as likely to face homelessness as white people and substantially less likely to get social housing, according to the first major study into homelessness and racism in more than two decades.A three-year research project by academics at Heriot-Watt University found that ethnicity affects a person’s risk of homelessness, even when controlling for factors such as geography, poverty and home ownership rates. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago The key events leading up to Post Office inquiry report publication

The Post Office Horizon IT inquiry is due to publish a final report – here we look at the key events in the scandal

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9 d. ago Livingston MP marks Independent Traders Day by visiting West Lothian butchers

The annual Independent Traders Day celebrates the huge contribution of local, independent businesses to our economy and communities.

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2 w. ago West Lothian communities get more time to comment on firework safety plans

Livingston South Councillor Maria MacAulay won a guarantee of an extra three weeks for community groups to make their contribution following a safety awareness event in April.

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2 w. ago Are rents affordable in Amsterdam? Not if you are a newcomer | Amber Howard

The city was once the pinnacle of inclusivity, with working- and middle-class people alike living in social housing – then the private landlords arrivedIn this series, writers discuss the causes of – and solutions to – the housing crisis in key European citiesWhen I moved to Amsterdam, I felt incredibly lucky to find an illegal six-month sublet 15 minutes by bike from the centre, secured through a friend of a friend. The cost was €1,000 a month – a bargain by market standards but still well over double what my downstairs neighbour, Henrika, paid under the lifelong social housing contract she had obtained four decades earlier.In the intervening years, Amsterdam had shifted from a pinnacle of inclusivity and progressive housing politics to one of Europe’s most unaffordable markets. In the last year, Dutch house prices have surged by more than 10%, homelessness has risen by more than 20%, and rents in the private rental sector have climbed by more than 7%.Amber Howard is a researcher i...

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3 w. ago Noise pollution harms health of millions across Europe, report finds

About 110 million people suffer stress and sleep disturbance that lead to tens of thousands of early deathsMore than 110 million people across Europe suffer high levels of health-damaging noise pollution, according to a report. The resulting physiological stress and sleep disturbance leads to 66,000 early deaths a year and many cases of heart disease, diabetes and depression.The report, from the European Environment Agency (EEA), focuses on noise from cars, trains and aeroplanes and found that 20% of the population of the European Economic Area (EEA) were affected. Separate research, using a slightly lower threshold for dangerous noise pollution, found that 40% of the UK population were exposed to harmful transport noise. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Democrats ‘weaker than ever’ amid ‘existential’ Trump crisis as ‘whiny’ and ‘invisible’ new leader dithers: report

Democrats worry they are missing the opportunity to counter an ‘serious existential crisis with Donald Trump’

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4 w. ago Future of bus manufacturer Alexander Dennis Ltd could have 'profound impact' on West Lothian communities

Gregor Poynton MP urged the Scottish Government to take immediate action

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4 w. ago North Lanarkshire schools receive eco awards from Keep Scotland Beautiful

St Aidan's Primary in Wishaw and Greengairs Primary in Airdrie were honoured by the environmental charity.

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4 w. ago Failure to collect ethnicity data on grooming gangs has been a ‘bloody disaster’, Baroness Casey fumes

The author of a damning report also hit out at Tory leader Kemi Badenoch, saying she was ‘disappointed’ by the Conservatives’ response to her review of the scandal

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