18 h. ago Warning UK’s housing crisis will deepen if Reeves makes further cuts in spending review

Exclusive: Building new social housing is facing a ‘cliff edge’ because of a lack of funds, experts say – as Rachel Reeves and Angela Rayner battle over budget plans

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3 d. ago Fears voiced of 'social apartheid' in new Stirling housing development

However, council officials say the wider Bannockburn estate will see a good spread of private and social rent homes.

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6 d. ago JoJo Siwa reveals the moment she realised she had feelings for Chris Hughes and hints she may relocate to the UK for him

The dancer, 22, and Love Island star, 32 have sparked a social media frenzy since meeting in the Celebrity Big Brother house in April, after their friendship blossomed into romance.

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9 d. ago 'Simmering anger' over poor social housing conditions could lead to 'disquiet', warns watchdog

Complaints to Housing Ombudsman about substandard living conditions are more than five times higher than they were five years ago

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1 week ago Princess Diana's family left stunned after fire rages at estate where she's buried

Princess Diana's younger brother Earl Spencer revealed on social media that a farmhouse at Althorp House in Northamptonshire, the family's ancestral home, had been burned down by vandals

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1 week ago ‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight

Poison darts, a dome from Spain, priceless spoons and Frank Lloyd Wright furniture our architecture critic is wowed by how the V&A East Storehouse lets visitors ‘breathe the same air’ as its 250,000 artefacts• ‘Pop a masterpiece in your basket’: our art critic reviews the Storehouse‘We used to have something called social housing,” you will be able to tell your grandchildren, should you ever take them to V&A East Storehouse, the Victoria & Albert Museum’s new outpost in east London. High up in the atrium, at the centre of this huge open-access repository of 250,000 objects, hangs a chunk of Robin Hood Gardens, a brutalist council estate in nearby Poplar that was recently bulldozed to make way for less affordable housing. Deftly suspended from the gantry, the poignant fragment now seems as much a relic of a bygone age as the 15th-century Islamic dome from a Spanish palace that is displayed across the hall. The estate’s precast concrete panels have been reassembled with ju...

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1 week ago Trump Media says investors will fund a company 'bitcoin reserve' through share purchases

President Donald Trump’s media company says institutional investors will buy $2.5 billion of the company’s stock, with the proceeds going to build up a bitcoin reserve

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1 week ago The social housing estate in the heart of Prestwich where tenants stay for decades

One of the country’s smallest housing associations runs a single ‘sought after’ estate in Prestwich where tenants stay for decades

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2 w. ago Donald Trump 'looks embarrassed' by woman's reaction at White House meeting

A woman's non-response to Donald Trump during an event at the White House has been described as 'painful' to watch by social media users

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2 w. ago Major energy provider announces money saving tariff that could save you £200

The new Octopus Energy tariff is available to tenants in social, affordable, and shared ownership housing where properties are equipped with solar panels and Octopus-optimised batteries

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2 w. ago Work requirements could transform Medicaid and food aid under US budget bill

Work requirements for Medicaid recipients, hospitals checking citizenship status, food assistance cuts and other measures in the budget passed by the U.S. House would rearrange the U.S. social safety net

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2 w. ago British Trad Wife Charlie Gray says women thank her for giving them 'permission to be at home'

Mother-of-three Trad Wife Charlie Gray, who lives in a large house in the West Sussex countryside, shares housewifery tips across her social media platform for stay-at-home parents.

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2 w. ago Paralympics star suffered 'mental breakdown' trying to find social housing

Megan Giglia won gold for Great Britain in Rio 2016.

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2 w. ago Moores supports West Highland families with new community kitchen in Oban

Kitchen manufacturer Moores has partnered with housing and social enterprise, Link Group, and property developer, C~urb, to design and install a brand-new kitchen at Home Start Lorn’s headquarters in Oban, helping bring cooking skills and a sense of community to local families.

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2 w. ago Partnership project in West Lothian could be implemented in communities across Scotland

The pilot programme, run jointly by West Lothian Youth Action Project (WLYAP), Almond Housing Association and Spark – a Livingston-based social enterprise dedicated to tackling social isolation and loneliness – has been praised for its innovative approach to tackling social issues while exploiting the added value of pooling resources and expertise.

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3 w. ago Muir Timber Systems completes work at Leuchars social housing site

Muir Timber Systems has completed the supply of timber kits for 49 new social homes in Leuchars. The project marked the continuation of a longstanding relationship with Campion Homes who is the lead contractor for the Kingdom Housing Association development.

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3 w. ago White Afrikaner brought to US by Trump administration has history of antisemitic posts

Charl Kleinhaus confirms he owns account that contained posts, as White House uses antisemitism as rationale for deportationsUS politics live – latest updatesOne of the white Afrikaners brought into the US as refugees by the Trump administration this week has a history of antisemitic social media posts, despite the White House using alleged antisemitism as a rationale for deporting pro-Palestinian protesters.Charl Kleinhaus posted on X in 2023 that “Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group.” In another post last fall, he shared a rightwing, nationalist YouTube video that was later removed, titled: “‘We’ll shoot ILLEGAL Immigrants!’ – Poland’s Illegal Islamic immigrant solution,” with clapping emojis. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago 'Toxic' dad stayed in his room scrolling TikTok – then son's wife was found dead

Nadeem Begum, 53, strangled his daughter-in-law to death after making demands that she do chores around the house while he lazed about scrolling on social media

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3 w. ago Revealed: London boroughs plan to cut spending on council housing by £264million

Capital’s local authorities beg ministers to ‘stabilise the social housing sector’ as they prepare to make ‘deep cutbacks’

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3 w. ago Migrants will have to spend decade in UK before applying to stay

Government to also end visas for care workers as part of immigration clampdown

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