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PUBLISHED: 17:00 24 July 2019 Hannah Somerville The unfinished extension has cost Alan Street £44,775 to date. Picture: Polly Hancock Archant A Hornchurch IT consultant has revealed the destruction wreaked on his home by builders who disappeared after he paid them £44,000 for a botched extension job. Email this article …

PUBLISHED: 12:00 21 July 2019 Tom Wright An artist’s impression of Strawberry Gardens extra care facility planned for Yatton. Picture: Housing 21 Housing 21 Building work has begun on a care facility but concerns have been raised about it causing traffic problems once up and running. Email this article to …

Councils will be expected to take rubbish collection, cleaning and school dinner provision back in-house under plans to reverse four decades of outsourcing to be announced by the Labour party today . In the biggest shake-up of local government since the Margaret Thatcher-inspired reforms of the 1980s, a future Jeremy …

Labour is set to mount a fresh assault on business with the shadow chancellor expected to set out plans to bring billions of pounds worth of outsourced public services back in house if it wins power.  John McDonnell is understood to have drawn up draft laws that would force government …

Questor Income Portfolio: ‘Nothing has changed’ was the company’s message to shareholders this week. But there was a surprise lurking in Premier Oil’s statement It was a blow for this column when in May Royal Mail announced that it would cut its dividend for the 2019-20 financial year. It was …

On 9 October 1990, just weeks before the downfall of Margaret Thatcher, the then transport secretary Cecil Parkinson addressed the Conservative Party conference in Bournemouth. On the future of British Rail, he was unequivocal. “The question now is not about whether we should privatise it, but how and when,” he said. The “when” …

Investors placed bets on William Hill on hopes that a mega casino deal in the US will help the bookie tap America’s emerging sports betting market. Caesars Entertainment, which owns Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, was snapped up by Eldorado Resorts on Monday in a $17.3bn (£13.6bn) tie-up that will …

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