Tuesday, April 29, 2025

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Mark Carney's Liberal Party has won the Canadian election, as power returned to much of Spain and Portugal following huge nationwide blackouts, and Vladimir Putin announced a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine.

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1 | Mark Carney's Liberals win Canadian election, projections show

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2 | Why Putin's latest ceasefire raises immediate suspicion

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3 | Power restored to swathes of Spain and Portugal after nationwide outages

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4 | Obsession with tough borders creating 'booming industry for companies'

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5 | Schoolgirl, 14, who stabbed her teachers sentenced to 15 years' detention

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Anger as Jess Phillips asked if she is part of grooming gang cover up

How can Britain's housing divide be fixed?

A lot of older people don't actually want to stay in their big houses with a lot of maintenance costs bills and unoccupied bedrooms, but fear a loss of their big inheritance investment and can't face the energy needed to downsize and there is no incentive to do so.

Make it very attractive to downsize into an appropriate retirement location to help to remove the stigma that can be associated with "going into care".

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Older homeowners in the UK, aged 60 and above, hold more than half of the nation's owner-occupied housing wealth, totalling an estimated £2.89 trillion.

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Some of those who exhibit unacceptable behaviour continue to thrive

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