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Housing secretary and capital’s mayor draw up plans to boost housebuilding, but homelessness charities protest
Developers will be allowed to build lower numbers of affordable homes and claim higher subsidies to build them under plans being drawn up by the government to solve London’s housebuilding crisis.
Steve Reed, the housing secretary, and Sadiq Khan, the mayor of London, will announce the package within weeks, in what officials say will be a time-limited intervention designed to stall the sudden drop in new building in the capital.
Ceremony marks 80 years since release of the Rev W Awdry’s first book and coincides with railway bicentenary
Eighty years since the first of a beloved fleet of trains was introduced to the world, a national blue plaque is being unveiled at the redbrick house in Gloucestershire where the Rev W Awdry worked on his railway stories.
The addition of the new Historic England plaque to Wilbert Awdry’s old address in Stroud is expected to prompt fans of Thomas the Tank Engine and his fellow locomotives to make a pilgrimage to the street to pay their respects.
Two sisters. Two horror icons. One box of dread. “Black Phone 2” star Madeleine McGraw and “M3GAN 2.0” star Violet McGraw stopped by the Page Six Studio to face their fears (and each other) in the Confession Cube… or as it’s known today, The Dread Box. The real-life sisters spill on everything from which of…