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The relatively stable interest rate has boosted homebuyers’ confidence, despite prices still being higher than a few years ago.

The latest government figures show there are 2.8 million people in the UK who are ‘economically inactive’ owing to long-term sickness, a near-record high.

Mothin Ali said, ‘This is a win for the people of Gaza’ in his acceptance speech and shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ after winning a council seat in Leeds on Friday.

Frank Furedi, executive director of the MCC Brussels think tank, said young people have been disempowered and indoctrinated over past decades.

Longstanding leader calls for dialogue with the West ‘free of arrogance, conceit, or sense of exceptionalism.’

Despite its superficial attractiveness, the ‘old for new’ housing policy can hardly save China’s property market, says China economist Davy Jun Huang.

ASLEF union members have overwhelmingly backed strike action, stemming from a two-year-long dispute with the government over an increase in drivers’ salaries.

NHS Dumfries and Galloway was attacked by cyber criminals in March when the first batch of data, including patients’ information, was released.

Protesters have set up ‘liberated zones’ at Oxford and Cambridge universities as Education Secretary Gillian Keegan says Jewish students must not be harassed.