The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has reported an easing in the shortage of homes for sale. Dan Roberts, our head of business, looks at the state of the housing market.
Wildlife minister Huw Irranca-Davies explains why he's given the green light to the introduction into the UK of a foreign species of insect. It's to aid the fight against Japanese knotweed, which damages buildings, roads, railways, drains and the countryside.
After the Russian exile Alexander Litvinenko was murdered in London in 2006, members of his family fled Russia for Italy's Adriatic coast. But they're not finding life any easier there, as Luke Harding reports from Senigallia, south of Rimini.
