Esther has had a difficult time renting in the UK since 2007, when she rented a small studio flat in Hackney for £850 a month, which rose to £1,350 by 2014 – a jump of 60 per cent.

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There are fears that sooner or later, the entire Pacific coast of northern California, Oregon and Washington is due to suffer ...

Thanks to a combination of efforts by beekeepers, better farming practices and reduced pesticide use, populations are showing signs of recovery ...

Ofwat originally threatened Thames Water with a fine equivalent to one per cent of its turnover, but reduced this to £1 after Thames agreed to a £11.3m compensation package for affected customers, ...

A man has been charged with four counts of attempted murder after four pedestrians were hit by a car in London’s West End on ...

Rail travellers are suffering further misery in the post-Christmas dash as the network was hit by overrunning engineering ...

A Nasa spacecraft has made history by surviving the closest-ever approach to the sun by any human-made object. The space agency said the Parker Solar Probe was safe and “operating normally” after ...

Because a dominant theme of 2025 for Britain and the world will be the Donald Trump restoration and his coterie including the unexpected Rasputin-like figure of Elon Musk. And it is around Musk where ...

Donald Trump made his political comeback, and is soon to return to the Oval Office as the 47th president of the United States; the UK voted in a Labour Government, and the world came together in a ...