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UK housing crisis: What does Labour’s shake-up of planning rules involve?
The UK has a housing crisis. Ministers want to build 1.5m new homes by the end of the parliament, and the only way to do this, the government argues, is to overhaul planning rules. On Thursday, the government published an 82-page
National Planning Policy Framework
report outlining what it …
Tory peer faces suspension over ‘Lord Poppadom’ remark
A Conservative peer is facing suspension from the House of Lords for calling a British-Asian peer “Lord Poppadom” and touching an MP’s braids without permission.
Catherine Meyer was accused of referring to Navnit Dholakia, a Liberal Democrat peer, as “Lord Poppadom” twice while in a taxi during a visit to …
Kimmel on suspect in CEO shooting: ‘America’s most unseemly new sex symbol’
Why did China hack the world’s phone networks?
'I will not touch bread if it is moist': Kemi Badenoch sparks Westminster food fight
In a row likely to generate more debate than many of their exchanges over the dispatch box, the prime minister has hailed the humble sandwich as “a great British institution” after Kemi Badenoch denounced the lunchtime staple as “not real food”.
In an interview with the Spectator, the leader of …
Has college football flag-planting really become a nationwide scourge in the US?
For Ohio State, a home loss to Michigan on 30 November was a football catastrophe, the Buckeyes’ fourth loss in a row against their hated rivals. For a few seconds, the focus was on the Buckeyes’ lost opportunity to secure a spot in the Big Ten championship game. Then, the …
Gukesh Dommaraju becomes youngest world chess champion after horrific Ding Liren blunder
Indian teenager Gukesh Dommaraju capped a stunning ascent to the pinnacle of chess by dethroning China’s Ding Liren to become the youngest ever world chess champion on Wednesday in Singapore.
The 18-year-old from Chennai snatched the decisive victory in the final game of their best-of-14-games showdown, which appeared bound for …
Cabinet Office to axe 400 jobs in drive for ‘smaller, clearer structure’
American found in Damascus appears to have been released from Syrian prison
An American citizen found in the suburbs of Damascus on Thursday says he was detained after crossing into the country by foot on a Christian pilgrimage seven months ago.
The man in question was later identified as Travis Pete Timmerman, aged 29, from Missouri, last seen in the Hungarian capital …
Sara Sharif’s father given custody despite years of reported abuse of mother and siblings
The father of Sara Sharif was awarded custody of the schoolgirl despite being accused of abusing her siblings and mother for years, it has emerged.
The trial of Urfan Sharif, 43, revealed how Surrey county council children’s services, Surrey police and Sara’s primary school were aware of concerns about the family …