A large wildfire swept through the coastal towns of Palaia Fokaia and Thymari 40 km (25 miles) southeast of Athens, destroying homes and forcing evacuations as it neared the beach. The flames erupted in low vegetation but quickly spread into residential areas, as Greece experienced its first heatwave of the summer. At least 20 homes were...
A plan for up to 100 homes to be built on land near a historic house has been approved. The proposals for Tidcombe Hall in Tiverton were rejected for a second time by Mid Devon District Council’s planning committee last year, with the plan attracting some 170 letters of objection. Opponents at the time expressed...
Jonathan Morris BBC News South West BBC The decision means the flats at Brewery Quay in Island Street are for sale only to people who live in Salcombe People living in a seaside town have welcomed the rejection of a developer’s bid to allow four new luxury flats being sold as second homes. A planning...
BBC Listen to this article on BBC Sounds We are driving at speed through the green hills of rural Hertfordshire. Through the passenger seat window, large elegant houses flash by. Each front lawn is neat, each hedgerow well-kept. It looks like England from a storybook – but this part of the country is actually on...
There isn’t a lot of information yet, but here’s what I have. Sources have told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS’ Tom Hauser that two Minnesota Lawmakers have been shot. Minnesota state senator John Hoffman in Champlin and Minnesota state representative Melissa Hortman in Brooklyn Park were reportedly shot in their homes by a gunman impersonating a police...
The homes of two Minnesota state lawmakers have been targeted in shootings early on Saturday morning, CBS News, the BBC’s US news partner, reported. They were the homes of State Senator John Hoffman and Minnesota House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman, both from the Democratic-Farmer-Labour (DFL) Party, in Champlin and Brooklyn Park, neighbouring cities near Minneapolis....
Half of Exeter’s homes will soon be receiving food waste collections as another 2,400 homes in the city are added to the service. Exeter City Council said that over 5,000 homes had been added to the service in the last month alone. The latest homes to get the service will be in parts of Cowick,...
Wednesday’s newspaper front pages largely focus on the chancellor’s Spending Review. Read full article at source...
HEADLINES First Exeter build to rent flats marketed at £1,375-£2,350 per month with “affordable” units costing £1,080-£1,800 plus bills Eutopia Homes rents in Exmouth Junction block would leave many workers with substantially lower income than Joseph Rowntree Foundation minimum for a socially-acceptable standard of living. Read more. Police and Crime Commissioner Alison Hernandez launches Devon...
Three men charged in connection with arson attacks on two properties and a car linked to Sir Keir Starmer will face trial in April of next year, a court has heard. Roman Lavrynovych, 21, and Stanislav Carpiuc, 26 appeared together via video link from the high security Belmarsh prison in south-east London. Petro Pochynok, 34,...
Builders will be required to fit solar panels to the “vast majority” of new build homes in England under changes to be published this year, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband has said. The regulations will require developers to add panels unless the buildings fall under certain exemptions such as being covered by shade. Speaking to the...
A fourth man who was arrested over a series of fires connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been released on bail, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 48-year-old, who has not been named, was arrested on Monday at London’s Stansted Airport after initially being stopped by officers under schedule 7 of the Terrorism...
A fourth man has been arrested over a series of fires connected to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, the Metropolitan Police has said. The 48-year-old was arrested on Monday at London’s Stansted Airport after initially being stopped by officers under schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act, 2000. He was later arrested on suspicion of conspiracy...
Esme Stallard Climate and science correspondent Getty Images A key planning restriction that heat pumps need to be one meter from a neighbour’s property has been lifted as the government seeks to accelerate the take up of the low-carbon technology. The change, which is part of the government’s Warm Homes Plan to lower household bills...
Jo Lonsdale BBC North East & Cumbria Investigations BBC Martin Beal’s former home, which he lost to the now cancelled A1 road scheme, has been empty since 2022 In October 2024 the government announced it was cancelling a project to widen part of the A1 in Northumberland, years after National Highways had spent more than...