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Wirral's largest housing provider has closed £77m of funding, including new loans from CAF Bank and Danske Bank, to build homes across the Liverpool City Region.
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Wirral's largest housing provider has closed £77m of funding, including new loans from CAF Bank and Danske Bank, to build homes across the Liverpool City Region.

Carbon Brief says the UK reached its £11.6bn climate finance goal only by counting existing spending, and would otherwise have missed it by nearly £1bn.

The London Orbital opened on 29 October 1986. National Highways staff and a retired engineer from the original team look back at four decades of Britain's busiest motorway.

Medical Detection Dogs will install a SniffSpace to let its dogs sample more urine from prostate cancer patients, training an electronic nose.

Mair Godley says Carl Johnson accused her of "facilitating the invasion" for teaching English to asylum seekers. Her husband has lodged a complaint with Essex county council.

The Lodge Street rehearsal and recording space closed in 2021 over safety. An Arts Council England grant now covers the final building work.

BBC Radio 6 Music has named Newcastle as host of its 2027 festival, with five days of gigs and DJ sets in the city's independent venues.

A charity set up by the parents of a six-year-old who died of cancer will help shape family support at Cambridge Children's Hospital before it opens in 2031.

A dispute over an OpenAI claim on the Navier-Stokes problem sits beside evidence of AI-written papers and invented citations in scientific journals.

Port Houston handled 376,419 TEUs in September, with imports up 16% and steel shipments sharply higher.

League Two Fleetwood Town knocked out the Premier League champions in a shootout, ending a tie in which Arsenal's Max Dowman was sent off.

A federal judge barred Bill Essayli from two prosecutions, citing a recent appeals ruling. The order is on hold while the justice department appeals.

The public accounts committee says the cost of the Suffolk nuclear plant could reach almost £48bn, with taxpayers and consumers facing a "high level of risk".

Researchers say machine-generated replies tried and failed to stop the UK ban on disposable vapes in what appears to be a first for health policy.

The chancellor is expected to ease energy bills, scrap the carer's allowance cliff edge and raise bank taxes, while holding big spending decisions until next year.