The overall scheme has been backed by £20million in government and council funding.

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These wonderful photos are sure to evoke memories for a generation of people who called Hunslet home in the mid 1960s.

For nearly a year, the “Eddie line” led by brothers Edmund and Edward Haziri ran drugs up to Swadlincote, north-west Leicestershire and east Staffordshire. The brothers were ultimately both jailed for ...

In 1991, the Government provided Manchester with a £30m pot of cash to revitalise its ailing housing stock, and it was ...

Cinema Novo was Brazil’s New Wave, a revolutionary body of films that reinvented Brazilian moviemaking via revolt, politics and radical style – with an impact that was felt around the world.

Slums now occupy nearly 24% of Mumbai’s land and house more than half of its population, according to findings by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). Mumbai real estate update: Slums now occupy ...

They say third time's a charm, but for Bernard Ekbery, it took 26 attempts. The Green Party member has stood repeatedly as a candidate across south Manchester in the local elections since 1990. In his ...

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Nigel Farage's Reform UK has been criticised for promising to build detention centres for illegal migrants in areas that vote for the Green Party if it enters government at the next general election.

The standard policy response to slums — relocate people, bulldoze the settlement, and build public housing elsewhere — is older than the slums themselves. It has never worked. The logic seems ...

Mumbai: Even as successive governments have promised a “slum-free Mumbai,” the encroached area in the city has grown by 68% between 2011 and 2025, according to satellite-based estimates by the Slum ...