Living standards crisis is a housing crisis
Seaside Devon shows starkly how high house prices are pushing down quality of life. We meet local people affected by the squeeze and asks if a housebuilding push can help.
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Seaside Devon shows starkly how high house prices are pushing down quality of life. We meet local people affected by the squeeze and asks if a housebuilding push can help.
The British high street is back in business, says a new survey – but is it full of charity shops and discount stores? We’re trying to find out as #c4newspopup tours Britain this week. You tell us!
House prices are rising at their fastest since the 2006 peak, according to new figures. But is this good news for people trying to get onto the property ladder?
Capital spending on infrastructure has been halved by George Osborne. On Wednesday, he will announce an increase in this type of spending, but why was this not done three years ago?
Plans to make it easier for homeowners to build larger extensions are to be reconsidered after the government suffers a backbench revolt and near defeat.
She was arrested for filming a council meeting – the situation escalated and now she’s in a high court libel trial. But citizen journalist Jacqui Thompson says she will still fight for transparency.
Conservative campaign efforts intensify in Eastleigh – even the Boris big guns are being deployed.
As Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg hits the campaign trail in Eastleigh, the former seat of the disgraced MP Chris Huhne, he refuses to say sorry to voters for Mr Huhne’s behaviour.
As anxious MPs consider bad-mouthing Britain to put off low-skilled Romanian and Bulgarian workers from moving to the UK, FactCheck examines the truth behind the scaremongering.
Ever heard of a local enterprise partnership? Well if George Osborne has his way, they could be bidding to spend billions of pounds of central government money. But, we hear, the PM is rather cautious about the idea.
Marriage in English law is still a fundamentally heterosexual activity: “The union of one man, with one woman, voluntarily entered into for life.” The Church of England happens to think it should stay that way.
Voters across England, from Manchester to Newcastle, reject David Cameron’s dream of an elected mayor in the major cities.
A London council is criticised after contacting housing associations in other parts of the country to see if they will take private tenants whose high rents are not covered by housing benefit.
While ten British cities are voting on whether to have an elected mayor, Doncaster, which introduced the post in 2001, is voting on whether to scrap theirs – which suggests the system hasn’t been a great success.
A lot of pre-Budget kite-flying going on. Always a danger that you raise expectations with exercises like that and then find you can’t deliver on them. On child benefit, the Treasury seems to be looking at a number of ways of ameliorating the child benefit removal for 40 per cent tax payers. All of them look pretty expensive. The plan is to have something ready to announce in the Budget on 21 March.