Homes, roads and farmland around Britain’s coast will be claimed by the sea due to climate change, a Government advisory group has warned. The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) says it will be ‘unaffordable’ to protect a third of the UK’s coastal property and infrastructure as sea levels rise. In its latest report, the CCC […]
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Developers should be hit with tough new penalties for ‘hogging’ development land at record levels according to a new study. The analysis found that so-called ‘land banking’ is at record levels with the worst-ever gap between planning permissions being granted and homes being built. Data from the housing ministry revealed that in 2016-17, planning permission […]
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The EU should begin making contingency plans for a second EU referendum in the UK, the Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable says. Sir Vince met Michel Barnier in Brussels last week and told him that support for a ‘People’s Vote’ on the terms of the UK’s departure from Europe was steadily growing. He and […]
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Billionaire businessman Sir Philip Green was today named in Parliament as the man accused of sexual harassment and racial abuse by a newspaper. A court injunction had prevented the Daily Telegraph from naming him, but Labour peer Lord Peter Hain used parliamentary privilege to identify him in the Lords. He said it was his duty […]
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New border controls will not be ready in time for a hard Brexit, the government has been warned. The National Audit Office (NAO) says delays and long queues would result and that criminal gangs would be quick to take advantage of the chaos. Exporters in the UK have simply not been given enough time to […]
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Billions of barrels of oil and huge amounts of gas could be lying beneath the North Sea, scientists have claimed. Experts at Aberdeen University who studied the offshore industry’s potential to 2050 says 17 billion barrels of oil and substantial supplies of gas are still to be extracted. Dr Linda Stephen and Professor Alex Kemp […]
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Iconic locations such as the Great Barrier Reef and Taj Mahal could be joined on a list of World Heritage sites by the slate quarries of Gwynedd, Wales. The county’s slate-scarred landscape has been submitted for the prestigious award by the UK Government, which is allowed one entry per year. Heritage Minister Michael Ellis said […]
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US President Donald Trump is “very keen” to agree a trade deal with the UK after it leaves the EU, claims the International Trade Secretary Liam Fox. Fox was speaking on a visit to New York to highlight the historic links between the two countries, where he said the UK was in a “strong position” […]
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Police numbers will fall to their lowest levels since the 1970s under a new round of spending cuts, senior officers have warned. The chief constables of three of Britain’s biggest forces say they will have “no alternative” but to make more cuts after a new government budget reduction. That will mean that more frontline police […]
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