A seaside town has become inundated with thieves and drug dealers, residents say, as they complain of dozens of abandoned homes. Locals in Horden, County Durham, say they are plagued by drug deals on their doorsteps while their streets are left creepily
The BBC’s plans to switch off a 40-year-old radio service will leave nearly a million households having to switch to smart meters to dodge higher heating bills. The broadcaster has sent out the Radio Teleswitch Service (RTS) since the late 1980s, telling
Just Stop Oil activists have vowed to take their campaign directly to the front doors of Labour MPs’ private homes as soon as tomorrow if they do not scrap oil and gas licences handed out by the Conservative government. Express.co.uk infiltrated a
Hundreds of people are being moved out of their homes in Aberdeen as they contain collapse-risk concrete. Aberdeen City Council said reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac) panels were found in around 500 homes in the city’s Balnagask area last year, including 364
For residents of Tilbury, Essex, rampant antisocial behaviour is a daily challenge. Daylight drug deals and “gangs of youths” wheelying on motorbikes down residential streets is a regular occurrence and fly-tipping is a “huge concern”. And yet, in the face of those
Located deep in the heart of County Durham’s mining country, Easington Colliery still wears the scars of its industrial past. Pollution from the local pit stained the beaches so badly the black sand was used as an unearthly location in the film
Israel plans to build more than 3,300 new homes in settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in response to a fatal Palestinian shooting attack, a senior Cabinet minister said. The decision is bound to frustrate Washington at a time of growing tensions
Just Stop Oil has been blasted by a Labour MP after the extremist group reiterated calls for protests and intimidation outside MPs’ homes. The eco-loons’ new plan emerged last week, when undercover journalists were told by unsuspecting activists that they plan a
This morning, officials started knocking on doors at 8am to tell people to leave (Image: SWNS) Over 3,000 people have been told to evacuate because of a suspected old Nazi bomb, but some won’t go. The area that’s off-limits is now bigger,
Hundreds of residents were forced out of their home overnight after a Nazi bomb was found in a garden. A major incident was declared yesterday (20 Feb) when the Second World War ordinance was discovered at a property in Plymouth, Devon. Police