Piers Wehner

The Somerset Levels are flooding again to the alarm of residents who have been washed out of their homes and businesses two years running.

Tens of thousands of council tenants face eviction after failing to pay their rent, according to figures from Thomson Reuters.

The Shetland island of Linga, whose 64 acres once housed 31 crofters and fishermen, has gone on the market for £250,000.

The screen home of Vito Corleone, the mafia boss played by Marlon Brando in the 1972 film The Godfather, is on the market for just under £2m.

Kevin McCloud has said that he recorded an episode of Channel 4’s Grand Designs intended to get people as drunk as possible.

Edmund Brudenell, who spent nearly three decades painstakingly restoring his Deene Park estate near Corby, has died aged 85.

New lanes will be built on motorways across the country as part of a £15bn investment programme to be announced next month.

The Treasury will put £200m towards an innovation hub for the discovery of new materials to be developed in Manchester.

Tesco has lost its coveted pole position in the games, music and video market to Amazon as more customers move online.

British consumers have been cheered into spending more by the Indian summer into spending more than any time since 2010.

The new boss of J Sainsbury, Mike Coupe, is expected to cut the supermarket chain’s dividend and trim investment in new stores.

Fashion retailer Kurt Geiger will add a London flagship store early next year as its sales of heels and handbags leapt by 13%.