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Councils given mandatory targets to deliver 370,000 homes a year in England, including through review of green belt boundaries

Winding back the 1,000-year-old jury system with intermediate courts has been met with caution

His Toyota Hilux was recovered downstream from Abberwick Ford on the River Aln outside Alnwick, Northumberland.

A shake-up of planning rules means councils have been given mandatory targets to deliver a total of 370,000 homes a year in England.

A body has been found in the search for missing former England rugby player Tom Voyce.

Tom Voyce vanished in the River Aln close to his Northumberland home

More than half of new homes are to be built in London, the South East and eastern England.

Levi Fishlock – who was ‘very identifiable’ in a purple England football shirt during the UK summer riots – has been given one of the stiffest sentences so far

Shadow housing secretary Kevin Hollinrake claimed the “majority” of homes built to reach the Government’s 1.5 million target will go to migrants.

Before the 2024 general election, Labour pledged in its manifesto to recruit 6,500 new teachers in response to England’s continuing teacher recruitment and retention crisis. Now, this recruitment target is central to the government’s plans to deliver its “national mission” to break down the barriers to opportunity facing children.

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