7+ hour, 59+ min ago   (19+ words) BBC Historic sailing school tall ship stops by in Shetland...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (359+ words) Plans to build the UK's second-tallest residential building in London have been approved after a close vote by councillors. The £2bn development at Vauxhall Square from Bmor, Cedarstone Capitial Partners and Cheyne Capital includes 25% affordable housing and student accommodation. Seven buildings…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago   (796+ words) Across allotments and deep in the heart of gardens, excitement is building ahead of a big date in the calendar - the Canna UK National Giant Vegetables Championship, later this month. For the many who spend months tending their plants to…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (252+ words) More than 120 council homes are to be added to East Yorkshire's social housing stock. The properties are being bought from developers, with 97 homes acquired in Withernsea and 26 in Driffield. Most of them will be rental properties, although some will be…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (388+ words) The last living pre-World War II resident of the family home of Sir Winston Churchill is to make an emotional return to help launch a new display celebrating the work of her father at the estate. The father of Gwen…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (458+ words) A replica Bayeux Tapestry cross-stitched by an Aberdeenshire pensioner over nearly four decades is being put on display at the same time as the real thing in London. The work of Ian Williams, 70, is about a third of the size…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (349+ words) An ageing outdoor swimming pool is to get a £1.1m upgrade to keep it running. Haltwhistle Swimming Pool, in Northumberland, attracts tens of thousands of visitors a year but parts of the facility date back to the 1970s, when it first opened....

5+ day, 12+ hour ago   (1172+ words) Samantha Banner and her partner have been living without heating or hot water for most of her pregnancy, relying on washing in buckets filled with kettle-boiled water, camping showers, or travelling elsewhere. The couple are leaseholders of a flat at…...

6+ day, 4+ hour ago   (493+ words) Local planning systems are the "biggest hurdle" in delivering proposals to build thousands of affordable homes, say housing associations set to receive millions of pounds in government funds. Magna Housing will receive £250m over 10 years to build 1,500 new homes and Stonewater…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (292+ words) A microphone used by Winston Churchill to deliver a speech on VE Day in 1945 is to be sold at auction. It is believed the Grampian radio microphone was used in one of four speeches Churchill made on 8 May 1945, when the…...