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A dash for detached homes and the hunt for more space in lockdown helped send the average house price in the UK up £20,000 in 2020, official figures revealed. House prices increased by 8.5 per cent in 2020, reaching a record high of £252,000, aided by lockdown buyers looking for bigger homes and the stamp … Read more
A dash for detached homes and the hunt for more space in lockdown helped send the average house price in the UK up £20,000 in 2020, official figures revealed House prices increased by 8.5 per cent in 2020, reaching a record high of £252,000, aided by lockdown buyers looking for bigger homes and the stamp … Read more
Whether you are strolling down the street, jogging in the park, or walking the dog along the beach, there is one sight you cannot fail to miss: discarded face masks. Trodden into the mud, caught on trees and bushes, in the gutter, washed up on shore lines and floating in rivers — they are simply … Read more
The first passengers were dropped off at hotels this morning at the start of the government’s new travel quarantine scheme – as a hospitality boss vowed to make their ten-day, £1,750 stay more ‘homely’ with ‘branded shampoo, puzzles and crockery’. Travellers were seen being dropped off at the four-star Radisson Blu Edwardian near Heathrow after arriving from … Read more
If you fancy a bit of old-school exotic off-road excitement closer to home, Land Rover is building 25 ‘adventure-ready’ re-engineered versions of its original expedition Defender. The select group of owners of the new reborn Defender Works V8 Trophy 4X4s will also be given entry to an exclusive adventure competition at the spiritual home of … Read more
An Anglo-Saxon burial ground has been discovered on a plot of land earmarked to become University of Cambridge accommodation. Excavations at the site revealed more than 60 graves which date back to a similar period as the famed Sutton Hoo site, around 400-650AD. Many of the newly-discovered burials contain grave goods such as bronze brooches, … Read more
President Joe Biden tied his climate initiatives to job growth on Wednesday, touting the economic growth behind his measures to increase conservation as the oil and gas industry complained about lost employment. ‘Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House,’ Biden said in the State Dining … Read more
What do you do if your 44-tonne transporter delivering around £500,000 of brand new Land Rover 4X4s gets stuck in the snow and ice? Use one of the vehicles to pull you to your destination. That’s precisely what happened outside a showroom in Stafford on Tuesday, when an employee at the dealership used one of … Read more
Travellers living next to the Dale Farm site now say they want to leave but cannot sell the land neighbouring ‘Britain’s biggest flytip’ a decade after a £7million eviction battle over Europe’s biggest illegal traveller site. Neighbouring travellers on a legal site by the infamous plot near Basildon, Essex, say they have ‘had enough’ of … Read more
Travellers living next to the Dale Farm site say they want to leave but cannot sell the land dubbed ‘Britain’s biggest flytip’ a decade after police and bailiffs fought a £7million eviction battle. Neighbouring travellers on a legal site by the infamous plot near Basildon, Essex, say they have ‘had enough’ of the town and … Read more