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Call for action as survey reveals 35% of homes with spray foam have defect

Mortgage adviser Liam Cockerham has offered his expert advice to first-time buyers on the pitfalls to avoid, including one easy mistake to make

The one easy mistake to avoid when buying your first home

Rydal Mount (Credit: Ashdown Jones, The Lakes and Lune Valley)

William Wordsworth's Victorian cottage on Lake Windermere up for sale

The initiative aims to support UK mission to reduce energy bills, create green jobs, and advance climate action

Social housing in UK to have cleaner energy come new initiative

Borough Hall, Bedford - Image LDRS

'Robust checks needed before housing children at unregistered placements'

Rough sleepers lay in their makeshift beds outside closed shops on Oxford Street. Picture: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images

Over £2 million funding boost to tackle homelessness in Central Bedfordshire

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images)

£90k funding boost to help tackle rough sleeping in Bedford

Rachel Reeves poses with the red Budget Box as she leaves 11 Downing Street to present the government's annual Autumn budget to Parliament (Photo: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

UK families to get free cash as Household Support Fund is extended

Chancellor Rachel Reeves prepares to give a speech at the Treasury in July 2024 (Photo: Jonathan Brady - Pool/Getty Images)

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Alex Nelson

'Lifestyle inflation' is to blame, according to 4,000 adults

Fewer than one in 10 millennials have hit their financial goals

Jess Phillips MP speaking at The Rally Against Violence Towards Women and Girls at Labour conference.

Minister says stopping VAWG should be everyone’s “core business”

A poll of 2,000 adults uncovered the top 50 things that irritate people when they’re trying to get on with their day

These are life's top 50 biggest inconveniences

Jackie Kennedy, is the only resident living in a 50-room care home after it closed down in 2023.

I live alone in abandoned care home - I feel like a "prisoner"

A poll of 500 adults who bought their first property have revealed their biggest regrets - including living in an area they do not love

First-time buyers reveal their biggest regrets

A house lies in ruins.

Footage shows house with front blown off after suspected gas explosion

Marshal Craig, one of the last remaining residents on Clune Park estate in Port Glasgow which is almost deserted.

'I'm not moving!' - Man refuses to leave derelict 'Chernobyl' estate

Hillary and Franco McManus Omaze Million Pound House London winners inside their new £5m home

'Best wedding present ever': Newlyweds win a £5m Omaze dream home

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Half of renters endure cold, damp or mould - despite record high rents

Rent increases are impacting the saving powers of four in 10 private tenants and now a third of these can't afford to put any cash aside as a result.

62% of UK renters put aside £100 or less each month

Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech outside No 10 Downing Street for the first time

Decade-low number of planning applications submitted in Bedford

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I'm a mortgage expert - 9 pitfalls that first time buyers should avoid

People look at residential properties displayed for sale in the window of an estate agents' in London (Photo: ISABEL INFANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Expert tips for first-time homebuyers as mortgages jump 61% in 5 years

Karen Bishop, 51, with her 2-year-old French bull dog Drew outside the Travelodge in Norwich.

Watch: Disabled gran has lived in hotel for 2 years after flat blaze

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UK city leaps into top 10 most expensive cities for expats

Residents of Stratford-upon-Avon are blighted by antisocial behaviour along South Green Drive and Cottage Lane, just a stones throw from Anne Hathaway's Cottage.

Watch: Drug gangs create misery on posh Shakespeare heritage street

File photo of an online energy bill.

One in 10 Bedford households in fuel poverty
Figures show more than 7,600 households were living in fuel poverty
Will Grimond, Data Reporter

Destiny Mitchell, 26, is homeless and has turned a bus stop into a temporary home on the Bristol Road, Selly Oak, Birmingham.

Watch: Our home is a disused bus shelter...it's going to be demolished

Figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show building commenced on around 970 homes in Bedford in 2023 – up from 810 the year before

Rise in housebuilding in Bedford – despite national slump

Department for Education figures show there were 35 full-time-equivalent agency workers in children's social care services in Bedford as of 30 September 2023 – up from 24 the year before

Agency workers fill EVERY children's social care vacancy in Bedford

3,271 pensioners in Bedford received council tax support in the three months to December 2023 – the lowest number since records began in 2015

Record low number of pensioners receive council tax support

Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities figures show 817 new social housing lets were offered to tenants in Bedford in 2022-23

Number of new social housing lets in Bedford falls to near decade low

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove arrives in Downing Street, London.

Almost a dozen hectares of open land in Bedford developed upon

A woman reading a leaflet from the Office for National Statistics about The Census 2021

A quarter of households in Bedford are in highest social class

King Charles III and Queen Camilla on the balcony of Buckingham Palace following the coronation on May 6, 2023. Picture: Owen Humphreys/PA Wire.

King Charles & Queen Camilla criticised over gender pay gap to staff

Figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show there were 73 Traveller caravans recorded in Bedford in January – it was up from 57 the year before

Dozens of Traveller caravans in Bedford

Spain is Europe's top destination for British expats

More and more Bedford residents own holiday homes

Census figures from the Office for National Statistics show 3,330 of 78,220 total dwellings in Bedford were unoccupied on census day in March 2021

Thousands of homes left empty in Bedford

RAF Scampton could be transformed into housing for asylum seekers - but locals aren’t happy

Row as historic RAF base could be used to house 1,500 asylum seekers

The Real life roomset at IKEA in Bristol (photo: Tim Gander/PinPep)

‘Cramped and dangerous’ rooms coming to some Ikea stores - here’s why

The building is currently a house of multiple occupancy

Plans submitted to change Bedford house into children's care home

15,385 non-dependent children lived in the family home in 2021 in Bedford – significantly up from 11,714 in 2011, when the last census was carried out

More and more adults in Bedford are STILL living with their parents

Cost of living is £630 more expensive per month for single Brits

Cost of living leaves single Brits paying up to £630 more per month

In the last 10 years, 234 social homes were built in Bedford but 184 social homes were sold and 51 demolished

Little change in social housing stock in Bedford over past decade
Housing charity Shelter urges the Government to invest
Will Grimond, data reporter

UK sees biggest fall in housing prices since 2009 financial crisis according to Halifax report.

UK sees biggest fall in house prices since financial crisis

Bedford mayor, Dave Hodgson

Wilshamstead Neighbourhood Plan becomes the 17th to be 'made' by council

File shot of a derelict house

Nobody's home: Hundreds of Bedford homes sitting empty for more than six months

Housing and homelessness charity Shelter said families are being pushed into homelessness

Bedford council spends millions on B&Bs for homeless

People are being urged to be careful when doing Black Friday online shopping

Bedford Borough Council urges caution for this Black Friday

12 people were laid off by Bedford Borough Council in 2021-22 at an average of £9,974 per person

Bedford council spends more than £100k on redundancy packages

Tenants in Bedford were evicted from their homes more than a dozen times by landlords

Cost of living crisis: More than a dozen tenant evictions in Bedford

The median monthly rent for a one-bedroom property is £650 while the median wage of full-time employees is £31,036 per year

Renting alone cost average Bedford tenant a quarter of income BEFORE cost-of-liv...

Artists CGI impression of what the care home and homes will look like when complete.

Council signs contract for £54m older person's development in Flitwick

37 households in Bedford were made homeless or put at risk of homelessness between October and December last year after being served with section 21 notices

More at risk of homelessness through no-fault evictions in Bedford

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