14 h. ago Swinney ‘not being fully candid’ about Cameron Barracks notification – Alexander

The Government has paused plans to house 300 asylum seekers at the site in Inverness.

Politics

18 h. ago Tram expansions and more housing among planning, licensing and road closures across Greater Manchester

These are the most significant developments tabled with local authorites across Greater Manchester recently

Politics

34 h. ago Cameron Barracks asylum seeker plans ‘made up on back of envelope’ says Swinney

John Swinney has hit out at the the UK Government's plans to house asylum seekers at an army barracks in the Highlands.

Events

39 h. ago A Black Georgia community uprooted in 1942 still fights to go home

US descendants of Harris Neck’s Gullah Geechee families seek the return of ancestral land seized for a wartime airfieldA once thriving Black community along the Georgia coast called Harris Neck is now covered with greenery. During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the area boasted a school house, general store, firehouse and seafood processing plants, and supported 75 Black households on 2,687 acres. The inhabitants were Gullah Geechee people, the descendants of formerly enslaved west Africans, who remained on the Sea Islands along the south-east US where they retained their distinct creole language and culture following the civil war.In 1942, though, the community was leveled to the ground when the federal government kicked the families off of the land using eminent domain to build an army airfield. For nearly 50 years, the descendants of the Harris Neck community have fought to regain their ancestral land through peaceful protests and lobbying local and federal...

Politics

52 h. ago Home Office delays plan to house 300 male asylum seekers at Highland barracks

The UK Government said it did not want ‘replicate the mistakes of the past where rushed plans led to unsafe and chaotic situations’.

Society

62 h. ago Boos as mammoth housing plan next to Greater Manchester beauty spot gets the go ahead

The rural plot of land has long been earmarked for housing

Politics

65 h. ago Homeowner sues energy giant saying their plans for new electricity pylons near his home knocked £125,000 off house price

Matt Greedy from Dunecht, Aberdeenshire, alleges he was just about to sell his home for around £700,000 before energy firm SSE announced their pylon plans.

Economics

4 d. ago Even Trump’s architect is trying to shrink the size of the ballroom that is set to dwarf the White House

He’s argued that the planned 90,000-square-foot ballroom could overshadow the main White House building.

Events

4 d. ago Elderly couple at their 'wits end' over wealthy fund manager's plans to turn ex

Pensioners David Wells, 92, and wife Ivy, 87, live in a semi-detached house that is separated by just a nine-inch thick wall from their next door neighbour in Burnham Market, Norfolk.

Economics

5 d. ago Five people rushed to hospital after plane forced to make an emergency landing because of foul odor

Four flight attendants and one passenger were taken to hospital as a precaution, American Airlines said

Politics

5 d. ago Fancy a dip in the front garden, darling? Young couple in hot water with neighbours over plans to build a large swimming pool house with its own 'bar' outside front door

Thomas and Eleanor Flood became embroiled in a planning row over a proposed 38ft-long pool house at their £1.3 million seaside property in Stubbington, Hampshire.

Politics

6 d. ago Kremlin rejects peace proposal from Europe as it rains death on Zelensky's war

Britain, Germany and France had proposed key changes to the contentious 28-point peace plan which was put together by White House and Kremlin officials last week.

Events

6 d. ago Nine motorway closures in Greater Manchester tonight including M60, M66 and M61

Here's a full list of the nine closures affecting five motorways

Politics

7 d. ago Speed cut to 20mph and hundreds of homes among planning, licensing and road closures across Greater Manchester

These are all the significant developments tabled with council across the city-region recently

Politics

7 d. ago Villagers wage war on university over plans to tear up its own Green Belt sports fields to make way for MORE student housing

Bath University has submitted plans to turn a 30-acre spread of sports pitches, known as Sulis Club, into accommodation for around 250 students.

Events

7 d. ago Hundreds take to the streets over plan to house asylum seekers at barracks

Campaigners marched through the streets of Crowborough carrying signs and flags, many wearing plain white T-shirts and chanting: ‘Send them home.’

Events

7 d. ago They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben

Trump’s wrecking-ball approach to America has a precedent: the Maga evangelical perversion of Jesus’s message of radical love to one of hate and aggressionTrumpism’s most revealing and defining moments – not its most important, nor cruelest, nor most dangerous, nor stupidest, but perhaps its most illuminating – came earlier this autumn. In the course of a few weeks, the US president started showing everyone his plans for a gilded ballroom twice the size of the White House and then began unilaterally ripping down the East Wing to build it. Then, after nationwide protests against his rule, he posted on social media an AI video of himself wearing a crown and piloting a fighter jet labeled “King Trump”, which proceeded to bomb American cities and Americans with a graphically vivid load of human poop.He has done things 10,000 times as bad – the current estimate of deaths from his cuts to USAID is 600,000 and rising, and this week a study predicted his fossil fuel policies would kill anot...

Politics

7 d. ago Hundreds protest against plans to house 600 lone male asylum seekers in army barracks near their homes

Furious residents have taken to the streets once again in a major backlash against government plans to move hundreds of lone male asylum seekers into an army training camp on the edge of Crowborough.

Events

7 d. ago Villagers furious over 'monstrous' plans for traveller site next to their £800k homes in quaint Chiltern Hills and claim house prices could plummet

Families living in an ultra-exclusive spot of the Chiltern Hills have claimed they are now 'terrified' of going out alone - due to a small traveller encampment

Economics

8 d. ago President Marj? What’s next for MTG after her shock announcement she’s quitting Congress

Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly denied that she’s planning to run for the White House or Senate

Politics