Piers Wehner

The Centre for Cities think-tank says that building on just 5.2% of the green belt around the UK’s ten least affordable cities would fix the housing crisis.

Chancellor George Osborne will announce plans to create a mayor for Greater Manchester as part of a package of new powers to boost the North.

Tax havens will no longer exist in five years as a result of sweeping rules to combat tax abuse, a leading global think-tank has said.

Developer Agile has become the third Hong Kong listed Chinese developer to raise cash from its shareholders in a $210m rights issue.

The remains of a Roman villa linked to one of the principal characters in the Ben-Hur legend could be obliterated by a housing development.

The apartment inhabited by Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly (and occasionally her cat) in the film Breakfast at Tiffany’s has gone on sale at $8m.

Four people have been injured and one person is missing after a fire and an explosion at a firework factory in Stafford last night.

Council leaders in the north have demanded £6.7bn to fund the proposed HS3 rail link, which would create a high speed link from Hull to Liverpool.

The British base at Camp Bastion is now a ghost town as the last troops leave active service in Afghanistan.

Work on a near-complete £200m road bridge between North Korea and China has stopped due to increasing distrust between the two countries.

Foster+Partners, the architecture firm behind HSBC’s HQ in Canary Wharf and London’s City Hall, has paid its chief executive £2.2m to step down.

The number of pubs, bars and restaurants seeking funding for expansion under the enterprise investment scheme has risen by 42%.