5 d. ago I visited pretty market town named UK’s best place to live — I'd move there right now

There was one specific spot I absolutely adored

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7 d. ago I visited Surrey market town named one of the UK’s best – and I’d move there in a heartbeat

I visited Surrey market town named one of the UK’s best – and I’d move there in a heartbeat  My London

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8 d. ago The high street 'that locals are too scared to visit': From a fatal daylight stabbing to massive chain moving out of town

As police officers patrol the streets after the shocking crimes just weeks ago, one worried mother said: 'It makes you fearful to come here but whenever I do I make sure the kids are close by my side.'

Events

1 week ago The ‘big church move’: Swedish town begins to roll historic building 5km

Kiruna Kyrka’s slow journey is part of effort to stop town being swallowed by Europe’s biggest underground mineAfter eight years of planning, an estimated cost of 500m kronor (£39m) and an early morning blessing, a church in northern Sweden began a slow-motion 5km journey on Tuesday to make way for the expansion of Europe’s biggest underground mine.The 672-tonne Kiruna Kyrka, a Swedish Lutheran church inaugurated in 1912, is to be slowly rolled to its new home over two days, at a pace of half-a-kilometre an hour. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Manchester United are importing a sinister US tactic: Public money for stadiums

Similar grand promises made when building US sports arenas are now being used to justify a huge outlay in the UK, with little return to show for themIn March, Manchester United officially unveiled images and plans for a new 100,000-seater stadium to replace their current aging home, Old Trafford. While the grandiosity of the circus-tent-like structure attracted widespread attention, something else did, too: as part of this project, United are planning to secure land not by paying for it themselves – but by having the UK government do it for them.In order to clear the site that the club wants to use, a rail freight hub will need to be moved to out near St Helens, a town in between Manchester and Liverpool. The cost of moving the hub is estimated to be between £200m and 300m ($270-405m), but that may be an optimistic appraisal; in the past, the project budget was estimated at closer to a £1bn ($1.35bn). Continue reading...

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2 w. ago People living in tents in Stockport town centre moved with possession order

The claim form showed there to be six people living in the makeshift camp

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3 w. ago Stephen Robinson backs Keanu Baccus to hit ground running after epic St Mirren return

The Australian midfielder re-signed for the Buddies after making a stunning move back north of the border from a spell at Mansfield Town.

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3 w. ago We were scammed out of £7,000 after moving for our dream life in Bulgaria

Laura Phoenix, 35, and her husband, Anthony, 33, moved to Strazhitsa, a small town in northeastern Bulgaria, in September 2023, with their daughters, Cecelia, six, and Nova, three.

Economics